The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?  Did you know the BBC is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - (also try Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)     
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 (The "Big Read" selection)

 
6 The Bible (All versions of the book & movie are great!)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 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- (Book and movie) 

  
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - (Book and movie)   
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - (a Robert Redford movie)
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 -  (Book & Movie)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - (Book & Movie)
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  (Book & Movie...even Clueless)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen  (book and old movie with Gary Cooper)

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
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - (Book & Movie)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (Book & Movie)
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - (Popular Read for a book club)
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 (Book &  Movie)
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 - 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 - (Book & Movie)

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (Book & Movie)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville- (Book & Movie)

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Book & Movie musical)
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 Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (Book & Movie)
80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - (Book & Movie)
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 - (Book & Movie)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Books & Movies)
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 - (Book and Movie)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (Book & Several versions of movie)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - (Book & several movies)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - (Book & Movie)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Wanna' read a  good book, or see the movie? Check them out @ YOUR GRAVES COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY.

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