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The top 100 books by www.telegraph.co.uk
Last Updated: 2:32am GMT 02/03/2007



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8= Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

8= His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - 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 - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby ceeb - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte's Web - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Excellent thread. I've read only 12 of those, but i've saved the list, and plan on reading all in my lifetime.

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens


and some of those authors like shakespears but not hamlet. King lear, Macbeth, Ro and Juliet and etc

I've read 1, 7, 10, 16, 35 & 71. My English teacher had a thing for Jane Austen & Charles Dickens novel. I've seen many others in movies.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brow
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
Moby **** - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
87 Charlotte's Web - EB
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo




Damn! Am I a geek or what?

I didnt read mosr of them yet buh maybe sometime soon

I read quite a few in the list and saw the movie version of others. Some of these books are free online.

[quote="Quinton"]


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8= Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

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 - Mark Haddon

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

70 Moby **** - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo[/quote]

NoAngst, have you read all that? Waw!

I have seen more of these as movies . the books .maybe 4 or 5 books. i probably watched about over ten of them on screen.

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

currently reading this and will be doing a play in like a month.....

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

70 Moby **** - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



Not as big a nerd as I thought. Shame ...

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

87 Charlotte's Web - EB White

i read more than half of the books on that list. in my younger days i read a lot, i was a loser :}

My mind is not large enough to accumulate such a quantity of info. But, i definitly got more rooms to store entertainment items. Somalinet is currently occupying a whole section of the left brain, hence my deformity.