Top 100 Novels from the BBC
Read = 48; Partial = 01
- Beloved Toni Morrison 1987
- Days Without End Sebastian Barry 2016
- Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels 1996
- Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2006
- Homegoing Yaa Gyasi 2016
- Small Island Andrea Levy 2004
- The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963
- The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 1997
- Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 1958
- White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000
- Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding 1996
- Forever… Judy Blume 1975
- Giovanni’s Room James Baldwin 1956
- Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813
- Riders Jilly Cooper 1985
- Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937
- The Far Pavilions M. M. Kaye 1978
- The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 2009
- The Passion Jeanette Winterson 1987
- The Slaves of Solitude Patrick Hamilton 1947
- City of Bohane Kevin Barry 2011
- Eye of the Needle Ken Follett 1978
- For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 1940
- His Dark Materials Trilogy Philip Pullman 1995
- Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1819
- Mr Standfast John Buchan 1919
- The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939
- The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 2008
- The Jack Aubrey Novels Patrick O’Brian 1969
- The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1954
- A Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin 1996
- Astonishing the Gods Ben Okri 1995
- Dune Frank Herbert 1966
- Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818
- Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2004
- The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis 1950
- The Discworld Series Terry Pratchett 1983
- The Earthsea Trilogy Ursula K. Le Guin 1968
- The Sandman Series Neil Gaiman 1989
- The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006
- A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini 2007
- Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932
- Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017
- Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954
- Noughts & Crosses Malorie Blackman 2001
- Strumpet City James Plunkett 1979
- The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982
- To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960
- V for Vendetta Alan Moore 1982
- Unless Carol Shields 2002
- A House for Mr Biswas V. S. Naipaul 1961
- Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1945
- Disgrace J.M. Coetzee 1999
- Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1864
- Poor Cow Nell Dunn 1967
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe 1958
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Brian Moore 1955
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark 1961
- The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 1989
- Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys 1966
- Emily of New Moon L. M. Montgomery 1923
- Golden Child Claire Adam 2019
- Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood 2003
- So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell 1979
- Swami and Friends R. K. Narayan 1935
- The Country Girls Edna O’Brien 1960
- Harry Potter series J. K. Rowling 1997
- The Outsiders S. E. Hinton 1967
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ Sue Townsend 1982
- The Twilight Saga Stephenie Meyer 2005
- A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 1993
- Ballet Shoes Noel Streatfeild 1935
- Cloudstreet Tim Winton 1991
- Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 1932
- I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith 1948
- Middlemarch George Eliot 1871
- Tales of the City Armistead Maupin 1978
- The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx 1993
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë 1848
- The Witches Roald Dahl 1983
- American Tabloid James Ellroy 1995
- American War Omar El Akkad 2017
- Ice Candy Man Bapsi Sidhwa 1988
- Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 1938
- Regeneration Pat Barker 1991
- The Children of Men P.D. James 1992
- The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 1901
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid 2007
- The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith 1955
- The Quiet American Graham Greene 1955
- A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1980American
- Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville 1853
- Habibi Craig Thompson 2011
- How to Be Both Ali Smith 2014
- Orlando Virginia Woolf 1928
- Nights at the Circus Angela Carter 1984
- Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949
- Psmith, Journalist P. G. Wodehouse 1909
- The Moor’s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie 1995
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Audre Lorde 1982
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