This is the BBC's Top 100 Books everyone should read. One of my goals is to read a must read list. so Here it goes.
(the sad thing is I know I've read some of
these, I just cannot remember what they are about)
- 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(well most of it) - 7
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte - 8
1984– George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (need to re-read I dont' remember it) - 12 Tess of the
D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14Complete Works of Shakespeare- well most of it
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19The Time Traveler’s Wife
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot – maybe
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22The 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
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho - 37 The Kite
Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41Animal Farm – George Orwell
42The 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
46Anne 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
51Life 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
59The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61Of 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
72Dracula – 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 – Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81A 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 Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton- 91
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks94 Watership Down – Richard Adam(would like to re-read this) - 95 A Confederacy
of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
99Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Why do they all have to be so long?!
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