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BBC Big Read Top 100

This is a list of the top 100 books as voted for by BBC viewers, and as with all lists I'm attempting to read all of them. Books that have been read are shown in bold type.

	1. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
	2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
	3. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
	4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
	5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
	6. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
	7. Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne
	8. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
	9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
	10. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
	11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
	12. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
	13. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
	14. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
	15. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
	16. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
	17. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
	18. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
	19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
	20. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
	21. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
	22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling
	23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
	24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
	25. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
	26. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
	27. Middlemarch - George Eliot
	28. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
	29. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
	30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
	31. The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
	32. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
	33. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
	34. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
	35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
	36. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
	37. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
	38. Persuasion - Jane Austen
	39. Dune - Frank Herbert
	40. Emma - Jane Austen
	41. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
	42. Watership Down - Richard Adams
	43. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
	44. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
	45. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
	46. Animal Farm - George Orwell
	47. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
	48. Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
	49. Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
	50. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
	51. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
	52. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
	53. The Stand - Stephen King
	54. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
	55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
	56. The BFG - Roald Dahl
	57. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
	58. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
	59. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
	60. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
	61. Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
	62. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
	63. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
	64. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough
	65. Mort - Terry Pratchett
	66. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
	67. The Magus - John Fowles
	68. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett
	69. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
	70. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
	71. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
	72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
	73. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
	74. Matilda - Roald Dahl
	75. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
	76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
	77. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
	78. Ulysses - James Joyce
	79. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
	80. Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
	81. The Twits - Roald Dahl
	82. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
	83. Holes - Louis Sachar
	84. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
	85. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
	86. Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
	87. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
	88. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
	89. Magician - Raymond E. Feist
	90. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
	91. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
	92. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
	93. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
	94. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
	95. Katherine - Anya Seton
	96. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
	97. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
	98. Girls In Love - Jacqueline Wilson
	99. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
	100. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

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