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, italicise the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien3
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible
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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
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Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
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Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 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 Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
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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
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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 Bernieres
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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 Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
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Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
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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
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The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zifon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
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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
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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
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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 Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
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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 (reading it right now)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
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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
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A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo