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100 BOOKS YOU MUST HAVE READ

1 Pride and Prejudice- X
2 The Lord of the Rings-
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte-
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling- X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee-
6 The Bible-X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte- X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell- X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman-
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens-

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott- X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy-X
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller-
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare- (not all of them!)X
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier-X
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien-
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk-
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger- X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger-
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot-

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell-
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald- X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens-
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy-
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams-
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky-
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck-
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll- X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame- X

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy-
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens-
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis- X
34 Emma - Jane Austen-X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen-
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X
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- X

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell-X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown-
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marques-
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving-
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins-X
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery-X
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-X
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen-
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth-X
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 - Mark Haddon- X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez-

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck- X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- X
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- X
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy-
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding-X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie-
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville-X

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens-
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett- X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce-
76 The Inferno – Dante -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -X
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray-X
80 Possession - AS Byatt –

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens-
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell-
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker-X
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro-
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -X
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White- X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom-
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - X

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad- X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery-X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - X
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- X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- X
100 Les Miserables — Victor Hugo-

41/100

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