1 The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
2 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
3 Animal Farm George Orwell
4 Ulysses James Joyce
5 Catch-22 Joseph Heller
6 The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
7 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
8 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabrelle Garcia Marquez
9 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
10 Trainspotting Irvine Welsh
11 Wild Swans Jung Chang
12 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
13 Lord of the Flies William Golding
14 On the Road Jack Kerouac
15 Brave New World Aldous Huxley
16 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
17 Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
18 Color Purple Alice Walker
19 The Hobbit JRR Tolkein
20 The Outsider Albert Camus
21 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
22 The Trail Franz Kafka
23 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
24 The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
25 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
26 The Diary of Anne Frank
27 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
28 Sons and Lovers DH Lawrence
29 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
30 If This is a Man Primo Levi
31 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
32 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
33 Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust
34 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
35 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
36 Beloved Toni Morrison
37 Possession AS Byatt
38 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
39 A Passage to India EM Forster
40 Watership Down Richard Adams
41 Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder
42 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
43 Love in the time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
45 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
46 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
47 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
48 Howards End EM Forster
49 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
50 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
51 Dune Frank Herbert
52 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
53 Perfume Patrick Suskind
54 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternack
55 The Gormenghast trilogy Mervyn Peake
56 Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee
57 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
58 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
59 Testament of Youth Vera Brittain
60 The Magus John Fowles
61 Brighton Rock Graham Greene
62 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell
63 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
64 Tales of the City Armistead Maupin
65 The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
66 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres
67 Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut
68 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig
69 A Room with a View EM Forster
70 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
71 It Stephen King
72 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
73 The Stand Stephen King
74 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
75 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Boyle
76 Matilda Roald Dahl
77 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
78 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S Thompson
79 A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
80 James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl
81 Lady Chatterley's Lover DH Lawrence
82 The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe
83 The Complete Cookery Course Delia Smith
84 An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan
85 The Rainbow DH Lawrence
86 Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell
87 2001 - A Space Odyssey Arthur C Clarke
88 The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
89 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn
90 Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela
91 The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
92 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton
93 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell
94 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
95 High Fidelity Nick Hornby
96 The Van Roddy Doyle
97 The BFG Roald Dahl
98 Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess
99 I, Claudius Robert Graves
100 The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans