100 Books Everyone Needs to Read

Another List! Books that BBC says that everyone needs to read. Here is goes!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen I want to, and I've started it, but haven't had time to finish

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Yes, and not really my favorite books... so hard to read!

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte yes

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling Duh!

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee I love this book!

6 The Bible yep!

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte a long time ago...

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell nope

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman nope

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens yep, every single word, which he was paid by

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott I love this book

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy nope

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller nope

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare not the COMPLETE works, but some of them

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier nope

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien after trudging through the lord of the rings? I couldn't make myself do it.

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk no

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger no

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger a great book, the movie didn't do it justice

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot no

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell nope

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald yep

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens nope

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy isn't this one of the longest books ever?

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams I saw the movie, and it was weird...

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh nope

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky no

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck nope

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll no

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame nope

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy nope

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens nope

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis yep!

34 Emma - Jane Austen no

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen no

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis isn't this part of the chronicles of narnia

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini no

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres no

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden yep!

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne no

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell yep

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown yep

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez no

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving no

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins no

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery no

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy no

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood no

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding yep

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan no

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel no

52 Dune - Frank Herbert no

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons no

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen no

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth no

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon no

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens no

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley no

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon no

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez no

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck no

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov no

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt no

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold no

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas love it!

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac no

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardyno

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding no

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie no

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville no

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens no

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker no

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett yep

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson no

75 Ulysses - James Joyce no

76 The Inferno - Dante no

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome no

78 Germinal - Emile Zola no

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray no

80 Possession - AS Byatt no

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens no

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell no

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker no

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro no

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert no

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry no

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White yes

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom yes

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle no

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton no

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad no

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery yes

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks no

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams no

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole no

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shuteno

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas no

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare no

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl yes

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I've seen the play!



Well, I haven't read as much as I thought I had. Whoops.

I was going to write about my weekend from, well, I won't say it. But it was interesting and stressful, and, well, that's all I will say.

Anyway, enjoy my list!

-amyg