BBC's list of 100 books to read before you die
1 Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
2 JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
3 Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
4 JK Rowling - Harry Potter Series
5 Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
6 Council of Nicea - The Bible
7 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
8 George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty Four
9 Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials
10 Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
11 Louisa M Alcott - Little Women
12 Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D’Urbervilles
13 Joseph Heller - Catch 22
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
16 JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit
17 Sebastian Faulk - Birdsong
18 JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
19 Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveller’s Wife
20 George Elliot - Middlemarch
21 Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
22 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
23 Charles Dickens - Bleak Hose
24 Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
25 Douglas Adams - The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
26 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
27 Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
28 John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
29 Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
30 Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
31 Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
32 Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
33 CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia
34 Jane Austen - Emma
35 Jane Austen - Persuasion
36 CS Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
38 Louis De Bernieres - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
39 Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
40 AA Milne - Winnie the Pooh
41 George Orwell - Animal Farm
42 Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code
43 Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
44 John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meaney
45 Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
46 LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
47 Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd
48 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale
49 William Golding - Lord of the Flies
50 Ian McEwan - Atonement
51 Yann Martel - Life of Pi
52 Frank Herbert - Dune
53 Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
54 Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
55 Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy
56 Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
57 Charles Dickens - A Tale Of Two Cities
58 Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
59 Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
60 Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love In The Time Of Cholera
61 John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
62 Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
63 Donna Tartt - The Secret History
64 Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones
65 Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo
66 Jack Kerouac - On The Road
67 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
68 Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary
69 Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children
70 Herman Melville - Moby Dick
71 Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
72 Bram Stoker - Dracula
73 Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
74 Bill Bryson - Notes From A Small Island
75 James Joyce - Ulysses
76 Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
77 Arthur Ransome - Swallows and Amazons
78 Emile Zola - Germinal
79 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
80 AS Byatt - Possession
81 Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
82 David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
83 Alice Walker - The Color Purple
84 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
85 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
86 Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
87 EB White - Charlotte’s Web
88 Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet In Heaven
89 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
90 Enid Blyton - The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
92 Antoine De Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
93 Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
94 Richard Adams - Watership Down
95 John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
96 Nevil Shute - A Town Like Alice
97 Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
98 William Shakespeare - Hamlet
99 Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
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