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 ♥ (A favourite!)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ♥
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ♥
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ♥
Total: 10
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ♥ (A favourite!)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles ♥
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller-
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - ♥
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ♥
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
Total: 4
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 Hitch Hiker’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
Total: 5
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ♥
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ♥
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ♥
34 Emma - Jane Austen X ♥
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ♥ (Favourite Austen novel!)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ♥
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ♥
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller-
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - ♥
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ♥
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
Total: 4
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 Hitch Hiker’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
Total: 5
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ♥
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ♥
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ♥
34 Emma - Jane Austen X ♥
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ♥ (Favourite Austen novel!)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ♥
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ♥
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ♥
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ♥
Total: 9
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 Meany - 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
Total: 5
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 Zifon
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 ♥
Total: 4
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
Total: 3
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 Inferno - Dante ♥
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt ♥
Total: 4
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
Total: 2
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 ♥
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ♥
Total: 9
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 Meany - 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
Total: 5
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 Zifon
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 ♥
Total: 4
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
Total: 3
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 Inferno - Dante ♥
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt ♥
Total: 4
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
Total: 2
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 ♥
Total: 4
So I've read exactly half of bbc's top 100 list. There are a couple I would have read, but have been refusing to read on account of the people who reccomend the book to me. Snobby? Yeah kind of. But I'll get to them. I've been going through Harold Bloom's western canon (http://home.comcast.net/~dwtaylor1/theocraticcanon.html) but that' will take some time. Happy reading!
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