The Big Read

The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation’s best-loved novel of all time. Now, I’m not British, but I’m gonna do it anyway! Bold for what I’ve already read, Italic for what I’m gonna read soon.
(as usual, I’ve read A LOT among classic literature from past centuries, very few from modern times)

1. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

7. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

8. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

11. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

13. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

15. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

16. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

18. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling

25. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

26. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

27. Middlemarch by George Eliot

28. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

30. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

31. The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson

32. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

33. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

34. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

36. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

37. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

38. Persuasion by Jane Austen

39. Dune by Frank Herbert

40. Emma by Jane Austen

41. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

42. Watership Down by Richard Adams

43. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

44. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

45. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

46. Animal Farm by George Orwell

47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

48. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

49. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

50. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

52. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

53. The Stand by Stephen King

54. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

55. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

56. The BFG by Roald Dahl

57. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

58. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

59. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

61. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

62. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

63. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

64. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

65. Mort by Terry Pratchett

66. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton

67. The Magus by John Fowles

68. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

69. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

71. Perfume by Patrick Süskind

72. The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

73. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

74. Matilda by Roald Dahl

75. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

76. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

77. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

78. Ulysses by James Joyce

79. Bleak House by Charles Dickens

80. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson

81. The Twits by Roald Dahl

82. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

83. Holes by Louis Sachar

84. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

85. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

86. Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson

87. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

88. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

89. Magician by Raymond E. Feist

90. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

91. The Godfather by Mario Puzo

92. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

93. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

94. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

95. Katherine by Anya Seton

96. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

97. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

98. Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson

99. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

100. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

101. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

102. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

103. The Beach by Alex Garland

104. Dracula by Bram Stoker

105. Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz

106. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

107. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

108. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

109. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

110. The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson

111. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

112. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend

113. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

114. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

115. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

116. The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson

117. Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson

118. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

119. Shōgun by James Clavell

120. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

121. Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson

122. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

123. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

124. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

125. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

126. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

127. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

128. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

129. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt

130. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

131. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

132. Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

133. East of Eden by John Steinbeck

134. George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl

135. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

136. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

137. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

138. The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan

139. Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson

140. Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson

141. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

142. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

143. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

144. It by Stephen King

145. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

146. The Green Mile by Stephen King

147. Papillon by Henri Charrière

148. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett

149. Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian

150. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz

151. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

152. Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett

153. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett

154. Atonement by Ian McEwan

155. Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson

156. The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

157. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

158. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

159. Kim by Rudyard Kipling

160. Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon

161. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

162. River God by Wilbur Smith

163. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

164. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

165. The World According to Garp by John Irving

166. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore

167. Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson

168. The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye

169. The Witches by Roald Dahl

170. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

171. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

172. They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams

173. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

174. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

175. Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder

176. Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson

177. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

178. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

180. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

181. The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson

182. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

183. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

184. Silas Marner by George Eliot

185. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

186. Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

187. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

188. Goosebumps by R. L. Stine

189. Heidi by Johanna Spyri

190. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

192. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons

193. The Truth by Terry Pratchett

194. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

195. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

196. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

197. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett

198. The Once and Future King by T. H. White

199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

200. Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews