Top 200 books to read - As voted in the BBC Big Read discussion
Revised List
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I decided to create a revised version of this list, mainly for myself, editing out some of the children's books that I personally think are not really considered classics.But as I've said this was mainly for my own benefit, and if anyone else want to use this version as well that's fine with me.
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter Series, 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. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
23. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
24. Middlemarch, George Eliot
25. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
26. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
27. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
28. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
29. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
30. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
31. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
32. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
33. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
34. Persuasion, Jane Austen
35. Dune, Frank Herbert
36. Emma, Jane Austen
37. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
38. Watership Down, Richard Adams
39. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
40. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
41. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
42. Animal Farm, George Orwell
43. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
44. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
45. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
46. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
47. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
48. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
49. The Stand, Stephen King
50. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
51. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
52. The BFG, Roald Dahl
53. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
54. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
55. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
56. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
57. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
58. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
59. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
60. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
61. Mort, Terry Pratchett
62. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
63. The Magus, John Fowles
64. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
65. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
66. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
67. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
68. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
69. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
70. Matilda, Roald Dahl
71. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
72. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
73. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
74. Ulysses, James Joyce
75. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
76. The Twits, Roald Dahl
77. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
78. Holes, Louis Sachar
79. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
80. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
81. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
82. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
83. Magician, Raymond E Feist
84. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
85. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
86. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
87. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
88. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
89. Katherine, Anya Seton
90. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
91. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
92. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
93. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
94. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
95. The Beach, Alex Garland
96. Dracula, Bram Stoker
97. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
98. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
99. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
100. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
101. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
102. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
103. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
104. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
105. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
106. Shogun, James Clavell
107. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
108. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
109. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
110. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
111. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
112. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
113. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
114. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
115. Possession, A. S. Byatt
116. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
117. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
118. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
119. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
120. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
121. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
122. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
123. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
124. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
125. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
126. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
127. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
128. It, Stephen King
129. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
130. The Green Mile, Stephen King
131. Papillon, Henri Charriere
132. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
133. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
134. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
135. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
136. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
137. Atonement, Ian McEwan
138. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
139. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
140. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
141. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
142. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
143. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
144. River God, Wilbur Smith
145. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
146. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
147. The World According To Garp, John Irving
148. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
149. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
150. The Witches, Roald Dahl
151. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
152. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
153. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
154. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
155. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
156. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
157. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
158. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
159. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
160. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
161. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
162. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
163. Silas Marner, George Eliot
164. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
165. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
166. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
167. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
168. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
169. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
170. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
171. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
172. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
173. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
174. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
175. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
176. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
177. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews