BBC Top 100 Books 

1.  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6. The Bible 
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
11. Little Women by Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
13. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
15. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch by George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
29. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
34. Emma by Jane Austen
35. Persuasion by Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
40. Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne
41. Animal Farm by George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
46. Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
49. Atonement by Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
51. Dune by Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
61. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
68. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
69. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
71. Dracula by Bram Stoker
72. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
73. Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses by James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal by Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession by A. S. Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte’s Web by EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection by Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
93. Watership Down by Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
97. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
99. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo