Stolen straight from The Dragon Mage.
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. Well let’s see.   
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.    
2) Italicize those you intend to read.    
3) Underline the books you love.
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    
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 Hitch Hiker’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 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 (this IS part of the Chronicles of Narnia which is listed above at #33)    
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    
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    
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 - AS 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 
 
 
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