Top 100 good reads
- 1984 - George Orwell
- The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
- Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
- The BFG - Roald Dahl
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
- Catch 22 - Joseph L Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- Charlie & Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
- Crime and Punishment - Fyoder Dostoyevsky
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- Girls in Love - Jacqueline Wilson
- The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
- The Godfather - Mario Puzo
- Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
- Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
- Gormenghast - Mervyn Peak
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- Holes - Louis Sacher
- I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
- Katherine - Anya Seton
- The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe - CS Lewis
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
- Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
- Magician - Raymond E Feist
- The Magus - John Fowles
- Matilda - Roald Dahl
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Middlemarch - George Elliot
- Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
- Mort - Terry Pratchett
- Nightwatch - Terry Pratchett
- Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Perfume - Patrick Suskind
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
- Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Secret History - Donna Tart
- The Shell Seekers - Rosamund Pilcher
- The Stand - Stephen King
- The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
- The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Twits - Roald Dahl
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
As voted for by BBC viewers, alphabetical order.
Top 21
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- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell