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BBC's List of 100 Books To Read

The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Dune by Frank Herbert

Emma by Jane Austen

Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Animal Farm by George Orwell

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Stand by Stephen King

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

The BFG by Roald Dahl

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough

Mort by Terry Pratchett

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton

The Magus by John Fowles

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Ulysses by James Joyce

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson

The Twits by Roald Dahl

I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

Holes by Louis Sachar

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Magician by Raymond E Feist

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Katherine by Anya Seton

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

turns out I’ve read a few of these 

Hopefully this brings a smile on a sobering day :( Hang in there American friends!

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