100 books to read before you die discussion

Bbc 100 to read before you die

Read 48/100
X 1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

X 3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

X 4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling

X 5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

X 6. The Bible

X 7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

X 8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

X 10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

X 13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14. Complete Works of Shakespeare

15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

X 16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk

X 18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

X 19. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

20. Middlemarch – George Eliot

21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

X 27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

X 28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

X 29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll

30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

X 33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

X 34. Emma -Jane Austen

35. Persuasion – Jane Austen

X 36. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis

X 37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

X 38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres

X 39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

X 40. Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne

X 41. Animal Farm – George Orwell

X 42. The 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

46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

X 48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

X 49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

X 50. Atonement – Ian McEwan

X 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 Zafon

X 57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

X 58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

X 59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

X 61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

X 62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt

X 64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

X 65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

X 66. On the Road – Jack Kerouac

67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

X 68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville

X 71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

X 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

X 81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

X 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

X 87. Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White

88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

X 90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery (In French)

X 93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94. Watership Down – Richard x Adams

95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

X 97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

X 98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare

X 99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

X 100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo