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BBC's "100 Books You Should Read Before You Die"

Alright. 4 years ago, I decided I wanted to be very educated and read all of the classics. Definitely not a short order. I looked up which books were the absolute must-reads and came across this list. It's the "BBC's Top 100 Books You Need to Read Before You Die."  How many have you read of the literary bucket-list?100 BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen✔️2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien✔️3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling✔️5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee✔️6 The Bible✔️7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman✔️10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens✔️11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller14 Complete Works of Shakespeare➖✔️15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien➖✔️17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger✔️19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger20 Middlemarch – George Eliot21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald✔️24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams✔️27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck✔️29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll✔️30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis✔️34 Emma -Jane Austen35 Persuasion – Jane Austen36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis✔️37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini✔️38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden✔️40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne✔️41 Animal Farm – George Orwell✔️42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding✔️50 Atonement – Ian McEwan51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel✔️52 Dune – Frank Herbert53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon✔️60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck✔️62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold✔️65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas66 On the Road – Jack Kerouac67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens72 Dracula – Bram Stoker73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett✔️74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson75 Ulysses – James Joyce76 The Inferno – Dante77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome78 Germinal – Emile Zola79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray80 Possession – AS Byatt81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens✔️82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker✔️84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry87 Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White✔️88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery (In French)93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks94 Watership Down – Richard Adams95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare✔️99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl✔️100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo