I too wonder about this list. it seems I have filled out many other lists and found myself sadly lacking... I've left in the ones I've 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 1984 - 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
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 -
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 -
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
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 -
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -yes
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
76 The Inferno - Dante -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -YES
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams-
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
so I have 58.
and I have to say.... wtf!? Bridget Jones Diary? it must be a MUCH better book than movie! (cute movie, just not something I would expect to be counted as a literary great)
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