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The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (N)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (Y)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (N)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Y)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Y)
6 The Bible (N)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (N)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (Y)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (N)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (N)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (Y)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (N)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (N)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (N)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (N)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (Y)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk (N)
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (N)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (N)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (N)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (N)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (N)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (N)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (N)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (N)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (N)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (N)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (N)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (N)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (N)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (N)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (N)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (N)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (N)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (N)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (N)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - (N)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (N)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (N)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (N)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (Y)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (N)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (N)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (N)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (N)
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (N)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (N)
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (N)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Y)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (N)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (N)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (N)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (N)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (N)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (N)
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (N)
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (N)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (Y)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (N)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (N)
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (N)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Y)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt (N)
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (N)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (N)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (N)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (N)
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (N)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (N)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (N)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (N)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (Y)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (N)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (N)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (N)
76 The Inferno - Dante (N)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (N)
78 Germinal - Emile Zola (N)
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (N)
80 Possession - AS Byatt (N)
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (N)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (N)
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (N)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (N)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (N)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (N)
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (Y)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (N)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (N)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (N)
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Y)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (N)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (N)
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (N)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (N)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (N)
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (N)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (Y)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (N)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (N)27 of 100. And I didn’t even include the books that I’ve read most or part of. (For instance, I’m on book 3 of His Dark Materials.) I think the BBC underestimates humanity.
14/100 for me; although if I counted the ones I’d started but never finished, or the ones I’ve read some of (Shakespeare, Conan Doyle), the number would be closer to…18? I’ve read mostly non-BBC-approved books, it would seem.
