Book Lists

BBC The Big Read - Top 100 books

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Book	Author	Dates Read
1. The Lord of the Rings	JRR 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	JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh	AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell
9. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe	CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22	Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong	Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca	Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye	JD 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	JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets	JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban	JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit	JRR 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 García Márquez
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	LM 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 and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!	Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies	William Golding
71. Perfume	Patrick Süskind
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 García Márquez
98. Girls In Love	Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries	Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie

NPR top 100 Science Fiction
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1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy	by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy	by Douglas Adams
3. Ender's Game	by Orson Scott Card
4. The Dune Chronicles	by Frank Herbert
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series	by George R. R. Martin
6. 1984	by George Orwell
7. Fahrenheit 451	by Ray Bradbury
8. The Foundation Trilogy	by Isaac Asimov
9. Brave New World	by Aldous Huxley
10. American Gods	by Neil Gaiman
11. The Princess Bride	by William Goldman
12. The Wheel Of Time Series	by Robert Jordan
13. Animal Farm	by George Orwell
14. Neuromancer	by William Gibson
15. Watchmen	by Alan Moore
16. I Robot	by Isaac Asimov
17. Stranger In A Strange Land	by Robert Heinlein
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles	by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five	by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Frankenstein	by Mary Shelley
21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?	by Philip K. Dick
22. The Handmaid's Tale	by Margaret Atwood
23. The Dark Tower Series	by Stephen King
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey	by Arthur C. Clarke
25. The Stand	by Stephen King
26. Snow Crash	by Neal Stephenson
27. The Martian Chronicles	by Ray Bradbury
28. Cat's Cradle	by Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sandman Series	by Neil Gaiman
30. A Clockwork Orange	by Anthony Burgess
31. Starship Troopers	by Robert Heinlein
32. Watership Down	by Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight	by Anne McCaffrey
34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress	by Robert Heinlein
35. A Canticle For Leibowitz	by Walter M. Miller
36. The Time Machine	by H.G. Wells
37. 20000 Leagues Under The Sea	by Jules Verne
38. Flowers For Algernon	by Daniel Keys
39. The War Of The Worlds	by H.G. Wells
40. The Chronicles Of Amber	by Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad	by David Eddings
42. The Mists Of Avalon	by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. The Mistborn Series	by Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld	by Larry Niven
45. The Left Hand Of Darkness	by Ursula K. LeGuin
46. The Silmarillion	by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Once And Future King	by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere	by Neil Gaiman
49. Childhood's End	by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact	by Carl Sagan
51. The Hyperion Cantos	by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust	by Neil Gaiman
53. Cryptonomicon	by Neal Stephenson
54. World War Z	by Max Brooks
55. The Last Unicorn	by Peter S. Beagle
56. The Forever War	by Joe Haldeman
57. Small Gods	by Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever	by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga	by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal	by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God's Eye	by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
62. The Sword Of Truth	by Terry Goodkind
63. The Road	by Cormac McCarthy
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	by Susanna Clarke
65. I Am Legend	by Richard Matheson
66. The Riftwar Saga	by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Shannara Trilogy	by Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series	by R.E. Howard
69. The Farseer Trilogy	by Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler's Wife	by Audrey Niffenegger
71. The Way Of Kings	by Brandon Sanderson
72. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth	by Jules Verne
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series	by R.A. Salvatore
74. Old Man's War	by John Scalzi
75. The Diamond Age	by Neil Stephenson
76. Rendezvous With Rama	by Arthur C. Clarke
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series	by Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed	by Ursula K. LeGuin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes	by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked	by Gregory Maguire
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series	by Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair	by Jasper Fforde
83. The Culture Series	by Iain M. Banks
84. The Crystal Cave	by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem	by Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series	by Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun	by Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy	by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series	by Diana Gabaldan
90. The Elric Saga	by Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man	by Ray Bradbury
92. Sunshine	by Robin McKinley
93. A Fire Upon The Deep	by Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves Of Steel	by Isaac Asimov
95. The Mars Trilogy	by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer	by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
97. Doomsday Book	by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station	by China Mieville
99. The Xanth Series	by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy	by C.S. Lewis