BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?   
    
    
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     
Total: 5    
    
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott      12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy     
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Helle     
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare     
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier    
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien     
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk    
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger     
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger     
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot    
Total: 4    
    
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     
Total: 8
   
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 Hossein    
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres    
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden     
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne      Total: 5
   
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    
Total: 5
   
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 - Mark Haddon    
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez    
Total: 2
   
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     
Total: 3
   
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 Inferno – Dante     
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome    
78 Germinal - Emile Zola    
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray    
Total: 4
   
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    
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton    
Total: 4
   
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad    
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Ex upery    
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     Total: 4
   
Grand Total: 44 out of 100 (more than 6)    
Maybe I should start reading more of these!

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