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BBC's Top 100 Books You Need to Read Before You Die
https://www.listchallenges.com/bbcs-top-100-books-you-need-to-read-before-you-die
1. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
2. The Lord of the Rings
3. Jane Eyre
4. Harry Potter Series
5. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights
8. 1984 (George Orwell)
9. His Dark Materials Trilogy
10. Great Expectations
11. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
12. Tess of the D'urbervilles
13. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca
16. The Hobbit
17. Birdsong
18. The Catcher in the Rye
19. The Time Traveler's Wife
20. Middlemarch
21. Gone With the Wind
22. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
26. Brideshead Revisited
27. Crime and Punishment
28. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
29. Alice in Wonderland
30. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
31. Anna Karenina
32. David Copperfield
33. The Chronicles of Narnia
34. Emma
35. Persuasion
36. The Alchemist
37. Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
40. Winnie-The-Pooh (A. A. Milne)
41. Animal Farm
42. The Da Vinci Code
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany
45. The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
46. Anne of Green Gables
47. Far From the Madding Crowd
48. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
49. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
50. Atonement (Ian Mcewan)
51. Life of Pi
52. Dune
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility
55. A Suitable Boy by 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
60. Love in the Time of Cholera
61. Of Mice and Men
62. Lolita
63. The Secret History
64. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
65. The Count of Monte Cristo
66. On the Road
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
69. Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
70. Moby Dick
71. Oliver Twist
72. Dracula
73. The Secret Garden
74. Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses
76. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
77. Swallows and Amazons (Arthur Ransome)
78. Germinal – Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair
80. Possession
81. A Christmas Carol
82. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
83. The Color Purple
84. The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
85. Madame Bovary
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web
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
92. The Little Prince
93. The Wasp Factory
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces
96. A Town Like Alice
97. The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
98. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)
100. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
The Guardian's 100 greatest novels of all time
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/12/features.fiction
2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding
6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson
7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
9. Emma Jane Austen10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock
12. The Black Sheep Honoré De Balzac
13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli
16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens17. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott
26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope
27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot
29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
32. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith
36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers38. The Call of the Wild Jack London39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad
40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence
43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
45. Ulysses James Joyce
46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
47. A Passage to India EM Forster48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. The Trial Franz Kafka
50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway
51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine
52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
54. Scoop Evelyn Waugh
55. USA John Dos Passos
56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford
58. The Plague Albert Camus
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett
61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor
63. Charlotte's Web EB White
64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
66. Lord of the Flies William Golding
67. The Quiet American Graham Greene
68 On the Road Jack Kerouac
69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
70. The Tin Drum Günter Grass
71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller75. Herzog Saul Bellow76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carré
79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge
81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer
82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino83. A Bend in the River VS Naipaul
84. Waiting for the Barbarians JM Coetzee
85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson86. Lanark Alasdair Gray87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
88. The BFG Roald Dahl
89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi
90. Money Martin Amis91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera
94. Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie95. LA Confidential James Ellroy
96. Wise Children Angela Carter97. Atonement Ian McEwan
98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman
99. American Pastoral Philip Roth
100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald
The Adventures of Augie March
All the King’s Men
American Pastoral
An American Tragedy
Animal Farm
Appointment in Samarra
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
The Assistant
At Swim-Two-Birds
Atonement
Beloved
The Berlin Stories
The Big Sleep
The Blind Assassin
Blood Meridian
Brideshead Revisited
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
C - D
Call It Sleep
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Corrections
The Crying of Lot 49
A Dance to the Music of Time
The Day of the Locust
Death Comes for the Archbishop
A Death in the Family
The Death of the Heart
Deliverance
Dog Soldiers
F - G
Falconer
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The Golden Notebook
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Gone With the Wind
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Great Gatsby
H - I
A Handful of Dust
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter
The Heart of the Matter
Herzog
Housekeeping
A House for Mr. Biswas
I, Claudius
Infinite Jest
Invisible Man
L - N
Light in August
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
Loving
The Moviegoer
Lucky Jim
The Man Who Loved Children
Midnight’s Children
Money
Mrs. Dalloway
Naked Lunch
Native Son
Neuromancer
1984
Never Let Me Go
On the Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Painted Bird
Pale Fire
A Passage to India
Play It As It Lays
Portnoy’s Complaint
Possession
The Power and the Glory
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Rabbit, Run
Ragtime
The Recognitions
Red Harvest
Revolutionary Road
S - T
The Sheltering Sky
Slaughterhouse Five
Snow Crash
The Sot-Weed Factor
The Sound and the Fury
The Sportswriter
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
The Sun Also Rises
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird
To the Lighthouse
Tropic of Cancer
U - W
Ubik
Under the Net
Under the Volcano
Watchmen
White Noise
White Teeth
Wide Sargasso Sea
Harvard Book Store - Top 100
http://www.harvard.com/shelves/top100/
1. Jane Eyre
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
6. To the Lighthouse
7. Lolita
8. The Lord of the Rings
9. Invisible Man
10. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
11. Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
12. The Divine Comedy
13. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
14. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
15. Mrs. Dalloway
16. The Master and Margarita
17. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
18. Middlemarch
19. A Wrinkle in Time
20. A Prayer for Owen Meany
21. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
22. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
23. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
24. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
25. Harry Potter Series
26. Anna Karenina
27. Dubliners
28. Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
29. Sea of Poppies (Amitav Ghosh)
30. White Noise
31. Mountains Beyond Mountains
32. Crime and Punishment
33. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
34. His Dark Materials Trilogy
35. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
36. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
37. A Wizard of Earthsea
38. A Moveable Feast
39. Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
40. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
41. The Histories
42. The Sound and the Fury
43. A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami
44. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
45. Their Eyes Were Watching God
46. The Phantom Toolbooth
47. Housekeeping
48. Dealing With Dragons
49. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
50. Cannery Row
51. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami
52. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
53. Shadow & Claw (Gene Wolfe)
54. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
55. Watchmen
56. The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
57. Orlando
58. Moby-Dick
59. High Fidelity
60. Watership Down
61. Half of a Yellow Sun
62. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
63. The Stranger (Albert Camus)
64. Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
65. The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
66. Good Omens (Terry Pratchett)
67. The Chronicles of Narnia
68. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
69. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (Grace Paley)
70. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (Salman Rushdie)
71. You Shall Know Our Velocity
72. Baudolino (Umberto Eco)
73. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (Richard Fariña)
74. Dead Souls
75. I Claudius (Graves)
76. In Our Time (Ernest Hemingway)
77. Jayber Crow: A Novel (Wendell Berry)
78. Little Big
79. Popul Vuh
80. The Left Hand of Darkness
81. The Adventures of Robin Hood
82. The Razor's Edge by Sommerset Maugham
83. The Sea, the Sea
84. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
85. The Bone People (Keri Hulme)
86. Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger)
87. Drown, Junot Diaz
88. Hamlet
89. Infinite Jest
90. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
91. The Blue Sword
92. The Odyssey
93. Song of Solomon
94. Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
95. A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
96. A People's History of the United States
97. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
98. Sometimes a Great Notion (Ken Kesey)
99. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
100. Leaves of Grass
Amazon's 100 Books to Read in Your Lifetime
https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=8192263011
1. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. The Diary of a Young Girl
4. 1984 (George Orwell)
5. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
6. Lord of the Ring Trilogy
7. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
8. Charlotte's Web
9. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
10. The Hobbit
11. Fahrenheit 451
12. Jane Eyre
13. Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
14. Animal Farm
15. The Catcher in the Rye
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
17. The Help
18. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
19. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
20. The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
21. The Book Thief
22. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
23. Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
24. Night
25. Hamlet
26. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
27. A Wrinkle in Time
28. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
29. A Christmas Carol
30. Of Mice and Men
31. The Secret Garden
32. Romeo and Juliet
33. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
34. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
35. The Little Prince
36. Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein)
37. Wuthering Heights
38. The Giver (Lois Lowry)
39. Anne of Green Gables
40. MacBeth
41. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
42. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
43. Frankenstein
44. The Bible
45. The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo
46. The Count of Monte Cristo
47. The Fault in Our Stars
48. The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
49. East of Eden
50. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
51. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
52. In Cold Blood
53. The Stand
54. Alice in the Wonderland
55. Watership Down
56. Anna Karenina
57. Ender's Game
58. Great Expectations
59. Rebecca
60. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
61. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
62. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
63. The Old Man and the Sea
64. A Game of Thrones
65. The Princess Bride
66. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)
67. Life of Pi
68. The Pillars of the Earth
69. Les Miserables
70. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
71. Dracula
72. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
73. Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
74. Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
75. The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe)
76. The Secret Life of Bees
77. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
78. One Hundred Years of Solitude
79. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
80. The Good Earth
81. The Time Traveler's Wife
82. The Odyssey
83. Celebrating Silence (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)
84. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
85. And Then There Were None
86. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
87. The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough
88. The Glass Castle
89. Mockingjay
90. The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
91. The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
92. Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese)
93. The Brothers Karamazov
94. Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
95. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
96. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
97. Phantom Tollbooth
98. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
99. Gone Girl
100. Crime and Punishment
