In April 2003, the BBC's Big Read searches the nation's best-loved novels and asks the public to nominate their favourite books.I discovered this big list when I first started following Lucy from the Literary Edit. I set a goal for myself of reading and finishing all of the books before the age of 28.Below is the list of BBC Big Read 100 books.
The BBC Big Read Top 100
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban by JK Rowling
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Tess Of The D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch by George Eliot
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Story Of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Dune by Frank Herbert
Emma by Jane Austen
Anne Of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
The Stand by Stephen King
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Swallows And Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Noughts And Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arthur Golden
A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough
Mort by Terry Pratchett
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
The Magus by John Fowles
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Lord Of The Flies by William Golding
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins
Ulysses by James Joyce
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
The Twits by Roald Dahl
I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
Holes by Louis Sachar
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Magician by Raymond E Feist
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Clan Of The Cave Bear by Jean M Auel
The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Katherine by Anya Seton
Kane And Abel by Jeffrey Archer
Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Girls In Love by Jacqueline Wilson
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
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