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BBC has released list of books that you should read before you die. It's a compilation of classic books of the century. How many have you read ? 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  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  16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien  17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger  19 The Time Traveler’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 Berniere 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 Dick - 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 Albom  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  Average book reader has read 6. View/Share this post only

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