The BBC list
104 books: 69 unread, 0 in progress, 35 completed
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Title | Author |
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring - The Two Towers - The Return of the King | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 2 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 3 | His Dark Materials - Northern Lights - The Subtle Knife - The Amber Spyglass | Philip Pullman |
| 4 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | J.K. Rowling |
| 6 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| 7 | Winnie the Pooh | A.A. Milne |
| 8 | 1984 | George Orwell |
| 9 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis |
| 10 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| 11 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| 12 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| 13 | Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks |
| 14 | Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier |
| 15 | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| 16 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| 17 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| 18 | Little Women | Louisa M. Alcott |
| 19 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres |
| 20 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| 21 | Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| 22 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | J.K. Rowling |
| 23 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J.K. Rowling |
| 24 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J.K. Rowling |
| 25 | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 26 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| 27 | Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| 28 | A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving |
| 29 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 30 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| 31 | The Story of Tracy Beaker | Jacqueline Wilson |
| 32 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 33 | The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett |
| 34 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| 35 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl |
| 36 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 37 | A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute |
| 38 | Persuasion | Jane Austen |
| 39 | Dune | Frank Herbert |
| 40 | Emma | Jane Austen |
| 41 | Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery |
| 42 | Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| 43 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 44 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| 45 | Brideshead Revisted | Evelyn Waugh |
| 46 | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 47 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| 48 | Far From the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| 49 | Goodnight Mister Tom | Michelle Magorian |
| 50 | The Shell Seekers | Rosamunde Pilcher |
| 51 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| 52 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| 53 | The Stand | Stephen King |
| 54 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| 55 | A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| 56 | The BFG | Roald Dahl |
| 57 | Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome |
| 58 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| 59 | Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer |
| 60 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 61 | Noughts and Crosses | Malorie Blackman |
| 62 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden |
| 63 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| 64 | The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCollough |
| 65 | Mort | Terry Pratchett |
| 66 | The Magic Faraway Tree | Enid Blyton |
| 67 | The Magus | John Fowles |
| 68 | Good Omens | Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett |
| 69 | Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchett |
| 70 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| 71 | Perfume | Patrick Suskind |
| 72 | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | Robert Tressell |
| 73 | Night Watch | Terry Pratchett |
| 74 | Matilda | Roald Dahl |
| 75 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding |
| 76 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt |
| 77 | The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins |
| 78 | Ulysses | James Joyce |
| 79 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
| 80 | Double Act | Jacqueline Wilson |
| 81 | The Twits | Roald Dahl |
| 82 | I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith |
| 83 | Holes | Louis Sachar |
| 84 | Gormenghast | Mervyn Peake |
| 85 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| 86 | Vicky Angel | Jacqueline Wilson |
| 87 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| 88 | Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons |
| 89 | Magician | Raymond E. Feist |
| 90 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| 91 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo |
| 92 | The Clan of the Cave Bear | Jean M. Auel |
| 93 | The Colour of Magic | Terry Pratchett |
| 94 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| 95 | Katherine | Anya Seton |
| 96 | Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer |
| 97 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 98 | Girls in Love | Jacqueline Wilson |
| 99 | The Princess Diaries | Meg Cabot |
| 100 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie |