The Big Read: 100 Best Reads of All Time

  • 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
  • 7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  • 8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
  • 9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
  • 10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  • 11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
  • 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  • 13. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  • 14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
  • 15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
  • 16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
  • 17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
  • 18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
  • 19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
  • 20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
  • 21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  • 22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
  • 23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
  • 24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  • 25. The Hitchhiker'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's Adventures 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
  • 34. Emma - Jane Austen
  • 35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
  • 36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
  • 37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  • 38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
  • 39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  • 40. Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne
  • 41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  • 42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  • 43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • 45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
  • 46. Anne 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
  • 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
  • 57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  • 58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  • 59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
  • 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • 61. Of 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
  • 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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  • 77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
  • 78. Germinal - Emile Zola
  • 79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  • 80. Possession - A. S. Byatt
  • 81. A 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 Albom
  • 89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
  • 91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  • 92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  • 93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
  • 94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
  • 95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
  • 96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
  • 97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  • 98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  • 99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
  • 100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo