Top 100 Books to Read at least once in a Lifetime

Books recommended and listed by BBC that they feel every person should read before they die.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Celebratory E...MORE INFO

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Celebratory Edition) J. K. Rowling

Charlotte's Web (Puffin Modern Classics)MORE INFO

Charlotte's Web (Puffin Modern Classics) E.B. White

1984MORE INFO

1984 George Orwell

HamletMORE INFO

Hamlet William Shakespeare, Paul Prescott, Alan Sinfield

Jane Eyre (Bantam Classics)MORE INFO

Jane Eyre (Bantam Classics) Charlotte Bronte

The Secret Garden (Wordsworth's Children's Classic...MORE INFO

The Secret Garden (Wordsworth's Children's Classics) Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: 001 (Harr...MORE INFO

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: 001 (Harry Potter) Newt Scamander

The Enchanted Wood: 1 (The Faraway Tree)MORE INFO

The Enchanted Wood: 1 (The Faraway Tree) Enid Blyton

Wuthering Heights (World's Classics)MORE INFO

Wuthering Heights (World's Classics) Emily Bronte, Ian Jack, Patsy Stoneman

Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's StoneMORE INFO

Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Complete...MORE INFO

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Complete & Unabridged (Cover to Cover) J.K. Rowling, Stephen Fry

Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)MORE INFO

Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emma (Everyman)MORE INFO

Emma (Everyman) Jane Austen

Life of Pi: Booker Prize Winner 2002MORE INFO

Life of Pi: Booker Prize Winner 2002 Yann Martel

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry P...MORE INFO

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter Celebratory Edtn) J. K. Rowling

Gone with the WindMORE INFO

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Bantam Classic)MORE INFO

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Bantam Classic) Thomas Hardy, Robert B. Heilman

Alice in WonderlandMORE INFO

Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll

The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Cl...MORE INFO

The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Classics) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Oxford Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice (Ox...MORE INFO

The Oxford Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice (Oxford World's Classics) William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio

Animal FarmMORE INFO

Animal Farm George Orwell

The Complete Winnie the PoohMORE INFO

The Complete Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne, E. H. Shepard

The Magic Faraway Tree: 2 (The Faraway Tree)MORE INFO

The Magic Faraway Tree: 2 (The Faraway Tree) Enid Blyton

Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th C...MORE INFO

Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) John Steinbeck

Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsMORE INFO

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling

Oliver TwistMORE INFO

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens

Alice in Wonderland (Wordsworth Children's Classic...MORE INFO

Alice in Wonderland (Wordsworth Children's Classics) Lewis Carroll, Sir John Tenniel

Handmaid's TaleMORE INFO

Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood

The Little PrinceMORE INFO

The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Othello (Arden Shakespeare)MORE INFO

Othello (Arden Shakespeare) William Shakespeare, M.R. Ridley

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-TimeMORE INFO

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time Mark Haddon

The Secret Garden (Puffin Classics)MORE INFO

The Secret Garden (Puffin Classics) Frances Hodgson Burnett

VANITY FAIRMORE INFO

VANITY FAIR Willam M. Thackeray

Sense And Sensibility (Penguin Popular Classics)MORE INFO

Sense And Sensibility (Penguin Popular Classics) Jane Austen

Notes From A Small IslandMORE INFO

Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson

Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics)MORE INFO

Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics) Herman Melville, David Herd, Dr. Keith Carabine

Swallows And Amazons For Ever: The Big Six And Coo...MORE INFO

Swallows And Amazons For Ever: The Big Six And Coot Club (Puffin Books) Arthur Ransome

Jane Eyre (World's Classics)MORE INFO

Jane Eyre (World's Classics) Charlotte Bronte, Margaret Smith

MACBETH (Folger Shakespeare Library)MORE INFO

MACBETH (Folger Shakespeare Library) William Shakespeare

Madame BovaryMORE INFO

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert

Great Expectations (Bantam Classic)MORE INFO

Great Expectations (Bantam Classic) Charles Dickens

Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea (Wordsworth...MORE INFO

Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea (Wordsworth Children's Classics) Lucy Montgomery

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Sig...MORE INFO

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories (Signet Classics) Charles Dickens, Gerald Charles Dickens, Frederick Busch

Little Women (Penguin Classics)MORE INFO

Little Women (Penguin Classics) Louisa May Alcott

Harry Potter And The Chamber Of SecretsMORE INFO

Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

One Hundred Years of Solitude (International Write...MORE INFO

One Hundred Years of Solitude (International Writers) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Fellowship Of The Ring (Lord of the Rings)MORE INFO

The Fellowship Of The Ring (Lord of the Rings) J. R. R. Tolkien

The Horse and His Boy (full color) (Chronicles of...MORE INFO

The Horse and His Boy (full color) (Chronicles of Narnia) C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes

The Lovely BonesMORE INFO

The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold

Memoirs of a GeishaMORE INFO

Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden

Antony and Cleopatra PEN (Shakespeare, Penguin)MORE INFO

Antony and Cleopatra PEN (Shakespeare, Penguin) William Shakespeare

A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics)MORE INFO

A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics) Vikram Seth

Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction (Barn...MORE INFO

Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics) Joseph Conrad

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of AzkabanMORE INFO

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

Catch-22MORE INFO

Catch-22 Joseph Heller, Howard Jacobson

Jude the ObscureMORE INFO

Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy

Little Women and Good Wives (Wordsworth Children's...MORE INFO

Little Women and Good Wives (Wordsworth Children's Classics) Louisa May Alcott

The Shadow Of The WindMORE INFO

The Shadow Of The Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Woman in White (Penguin Popular Classics)MORE INFO

The Woman in White (Penguin Popular Classics) Wilkie Collins

Sense and SensibilityMORE INFO

Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen

The Three Musketeers (Bantam Classic)MORE INFO

The Three Musketeers (Bantam Classic) Alexandre Dumas, Lowell Bair

Love in the Time of CholeraMORE INFO

Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Folk of the Faraway Tree: 3MORE INFO

The Folk of the Faraway Tree: 3 Enid Blyton

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (full color) (Chron...MORE INFO

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (full color) (Chronicles of Narnia) C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes

The Three Musketeers (Great Illustrated Classics)MORE INFO

The Three Musketeers (Great Illustrated Classics) Alexandre Dumas

Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 B...MORE INFO

Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) Salman Rushdie

Atonement (Movie Tie-in Edition)MORE INFO

Atonement (Movie Tie-in Edition) Ian McEwan

Puffin Modern Classics Watership DownMORE INFO

Puffin Modern Classics Watership Down Richard Adams

The Five People You Meet In HeavenMORE INFO

The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Classic Crime)MORE INFO

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Classic Crime) Arthur Conan Doyle

The Color Purple (Women's Press Classics)MORE INFO

The Color Purple (Women's Press Classics) Alice Walker

Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)MORE INFO

Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) Jane Austen

The Last Battle (full color) (Chronicles of Narnia...MORE INFO

The Last Battle (full color) (Chronicles of Narnia) C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes

A Confederacy of DuncesMORE INFO

A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy

Birdsong (Vintage War)MORE INFO

Birdsong (Vintage War) Sebastian Faulks

Brave New World (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)...MORE INFO

Brave New World (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Aldous Huxley

A Prayer For Owen MeanyMORE INFO

A Prayer For Owen Meany John Irving

Persuasion (Barnes & Noble Classics)MORE INFO

Persuasion (Barnes & Noble Classics) Jane Austen

The Catcher in the RyeMORE INFO

The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger

To Kill a MockingbirdMORE INFO

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryMORE INFO

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

The Silver Chair (full color) (Chronicles of Narni...MORE INFO

The Silver Chair (full color) (Chronicles of Narnia) C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes

The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Puff...MORE INFO

The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Puffin Classics) Arthur Conan Doyle

The Five People You Meet In HeavenMORE INFO

The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom

The Kite RunnerMORE INFO

The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini

Prince Caspian Movie Tie-in Edition (digest): The...MORE INFO

Prince Caspian Movie Tie-in Edition (digest): The Return to Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia) C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes

Bridget JonesMORE INFO

Bridget Jones Helen Fielding

Possession: A RomanceMORE INFO

Possession: A Romance A S Byatt

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Tie-in...MORE INFO

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Tie-in Edition (Chronicles of Narnia) C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes

The Time Traveler's Wife (Vintage Magic)MORE INFO

The Time Traveler's Wife (Vintage Magic) Audrey Niffenegger

The Secret HistoryMORE INFO

The Secret History Donna Tartt

Far from the Madding Crowd (Modern Library Classic...MORE INFO

Far from the Madding Crowd (Modern Library Classics) Thomas Hardy, Margaret Drabble

Dracula (Scholastic Classics)MORE INFO

Dracula (Scholastic Classics) Bram Stoker

The Da Vinci CodeMORE INFO

The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings)MORE INFO

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings) J. R. R. Tolkien

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood PrinceMORE INFO

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

The Return Of The King (The Lord of the Rings)MORE INFO

The Return Of The King (The Lord of the Rings) J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towe...MORE INFO

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King/Two Towers/Fellowship of the Ring J. R. R. Tolkien, Alan Lee

The Great GatsbyMORE INFO

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

Captain Corelli's MandolinMORE INFO

Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres

Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)MORE INFO

Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics) Vladimir Nabokov

The HobbitMORE INFO

The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Wind in the Willows (Scholastic Junior Classic...MORE INFO

The Wind in the Willows (Scholastic Junior Classic) Kenneth Grahame