Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.


"I am a reader, I gues".

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen



2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien



3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte



4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling



5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee



6 The Bible



7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte



8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell



9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman



10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens



11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott



12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy



13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller



14 Complete Works of Shakespeare



15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier



16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien



17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks



19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger



20 Middlemarch – George Eliot



21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell



22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald



23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens



24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy



25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams



26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh



27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky



28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck



29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll



30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame



31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy



32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens



33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis



34 Emma – Jane Austen



35 Persuasion – Jane Austen



36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis



37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini



38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere



39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden



40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne



41 Animal Farm – George Orwell



42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown



43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez



44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving



45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins



46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery



47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy



48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood



49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding



50 Atonement – Ian McEwan



51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel



52 Dune – Frank Herbert



53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons



54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen



55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth



56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon



57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens



58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley



59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon



60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez



61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck



62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov



63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt



64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold



65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas



66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac



67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy



68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding



69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie



70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville



71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens



72 Dracula – Bram Stoker



73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett



74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson



75 Ulysses – James Joyce



76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath



77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome



78 Germinal – Emile Zola



79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray



80 Possession – AS Byatt



81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens



82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell



83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker



84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro



85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert



86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry



87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White



88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom



89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton



91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad



92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery



93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks



94 Watership Down – Richard Adams



95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole



96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute



97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas



98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare



99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl



100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo