from number 1 to 100 in numerical order!
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice , Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials , Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Douglas
Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , JK
Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four , George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , CS
Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22 , Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights , Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women , Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin , Louis de
Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind , Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK
Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets , JK
Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban,
JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles , Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch , George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany , John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath , John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland , Lewis
Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude , Gabriel
García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth , Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield , Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald
Dahl
36. Treasure Island , Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice , Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion , Jane Austen
39. Dune , Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables , LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited , Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom , Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers , Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden , Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men , John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy , Vikram Seth
56. The BFG , Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl , Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses , Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha , Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities , Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds , Colleen McCollough
65. Mort , Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards! , Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists , Robert
Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda , Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary , Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History , Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses , James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle , Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast , Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things , Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm , Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear , Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic , Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist , Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine , Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera , Gabriel García
Márquez
98. Girls In Love , Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries , Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children , Salman Rushdie
copied from BBC

How many have you read and which book do you think is missing from the list?

I've watched about 10 n read 5...
Why is none of Dan Brown's books in the list? One of his shld be on the list tho

The Gulag Archipelago written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is the finest book I ever read.

polymathic:
I've watched about 10 n read 5...
Why is none of Dan Brown's books in the list? One of his shld be on the list tho

Well, this is not the only top 100 list. His book(s) coulda made other lists. And I guess you have a lot of reading to do *winks*

I have watched 10,and read 13 from this list,inbetween,things fall apart,angels and demons,nothing last forever,should have made this list;my thought......more than half of the list are english authors,BBC IS BIASED!

Lovetinz:
The Gulag Archipelago written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is the finest book I ever read.

I see...

Emyemyberry:
I have watched 10,and read 13 from this list,inbetween,things fall apart,angels and demons,nothing last forever,should have made this list;my thought......more than half of the list are english authors,BBC IS BIASED!

Yea, you're right. I saw Things Fall Apart in another list.

missEmjay:

Well, this is not the only top 100 list. His book(s) coulda made other lists. And I guess you have a lot of reading to do *winks*

hahahaha, I'm tired of reading... Besides, most of d books I've read aint on this particular list, like Dan brown's books, sidney sheldon, John Grisham, etc

missEmjay:

Yea, you're right. I saw Things Fall Apart in another list.

where is the list? Maybe you can paste it also

Emyemyberry:
where is the list? Maybe you can paste it also

lemme see if I can fish it out.

Ogboju Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (The Forest of A Thousand
Demons ) by Chief Daniel O. Fagunwa

God is not one by stephen R. Prothero

Both are missing!

olayincar:
Ogboju Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (The Forest of A Thousand
Demons ) by Chief Daniel O. Fagunwa

God is not one by stephen R. Prothero

Both are missing!

Hahaha! Ogboju what?! You think ogboju should make this list? Lol. It is well.

I've read just one: 1984-George Orwel
Now I know I got "99 problems"

DikSin:
I've read just one: 1984-George Orwel
Now I know I got "99 problems"

Hahaha... if you say so. People will soon add to that '99 problems'. And hope you enjoyed 1984 too? One of my favorites. And.... just a guess. Was it JAMB that made you read 1984, twas on their syllabus last year

missEmjay:

Hahaha! Ogboju what?! You think ogboju should make this list? Lol. It is well.

Why not... Even top10
Our problem are, we don't value wah we have.

now i just discovered i am yet to start reading booksi.i cant even boost of more thn five books here.i just bookmarked it.time to start buying.

missEmjay:

lemme see if I can fish it out.

patiently waiting.

.

olayincar:



Why not... Even top10
Our problem are, we don't value wah we have.

I'm not disputing that. just asking if the book was worth it and you just confirmed that.

Mayydayy:
now i just discovered i am yet to start reading booksi.i cant even boost of more thn five books here.i just bookmarked it.time to start buying.

Five?! Well, you've tried. Time to start buying? When you can download most for free online.

Here is wikipedia's list:
-Things Fall Apart
Achebe, Chinua Chinua Achebe

-Fairy tales
Andersen, Hans ChristianHans Christian
Andersen

-The Divine Comedy
Alighieri, Dante Dante Alighieri

-Epic of Gilgamesh
Unknown

-Book of Job
Unknown

-One Thousand and One Nights
Unknown

-Njál's Saga
Unknown

-Pride and Prejudice
Austen, JaneJane Austen

-Le Père Goriot
de Balzac, HonoréHonoré de Balzac

-Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable , a trilogy
Beckett, Samuel Samuel Beckett

-The Decameron
Boccaccio, Giovanni Giovanni Boccaccio

-Borges, Jorge Luis Jorge Luis Borges

-Wuthering Heights
Brontë, EmilyEmily Brontë

-The Stranger
Camus, Albert Albert Camus

-Poems
Celan, Paul Paul Celan

-Journey to the End of the Night
Céline, Louis-FerdinandLouis-Ferdinand Céline

-Don Quixote
Cervantes, Miguel de Miguel de Cervantes

-The Canterbury Tales
Chaucer, Geoffrey Geoffrey Chaucer

-Stories
Chekhov, Anton Anton Chekhov

-Nostromo
Conrad, JosephJoseph Conrad

-Great Expectations
Dickens, CharlesCharles Dickens

-Jacques the Fatalist
Diderot, Denis Denis Diderot

-Berlin Alexanderplatz
Döblin, Alfred Alfred Döblin

-Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Fyodor Dostoevsky

-The Idiot
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Fyodor Dostoevsky

-The Possessed
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Fyodor Dostoevsky

-The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Fyodor Dostoevsky

-Middlemarch
Eliot, George George Eliot

-Invisible Man
Ellison, RalphRalph Ellison

-Medea
Euripides

-Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner, William William Faulkner

-The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner, William William Faulkner

-Madame Bovary
Flaubert, GustaveGustave Flaubert

-Sentimental Education
Flaubert, GustaveGustave Flaubert

-Gypsy Ballads
Lorca, Federico García Federico García Lorca

-One Hundred Years of Solitude
Márquez, Gabriel GarcíaGabriel García Márquez

-Love in the Time of Cholera
Márquez, Gabriel GarcíaGabriel García Márquez

-Faust
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang vonJohann Wolfgang
von Goethe

-Dead Souls
Gogol, Nikolai Nikolai Gogol

-The Tin Drum
Grass, GünterGünter Grass

-The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Guimarães Rosa, João João Guimarães Rosa

-Hunger
Hamsun, KnutKnut Hamsun

-The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway, ErnestErnest Hemingway

-Iliad
Homer

-Odyssey
Homer

-A Doll's House
Ibsen, Henrik Henrik Ibsen

-Ulysses
Joyce, JamesJames Joyce

-Stories
Kafka, Franz Franz Kafka

-The Trial
Kafka, Franz Franz Kafka

-The Castle
Kafka, Franz Franz Kafka

-Shakuntala
Kālidāsa

-The Sound of the Mountain
Kawabata, Yasunari

-Zorba the Greek
Kazantzakis, Nikos

-Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, D. H.

-Independent People
Laxness, Halldór

-Poems
Leopardi, Giacomo
Doris Lessing

-Pippi Longstocking
Lindgren, Astrid

-A Madman's Diary
Xun, LuLu Xun

-Children of Gebelawi
Mahfouz, Naguib

-Buddenbrooks
Mann, Thomas

-The Magic Mountain
Mann, Thomas

-Moby-Dick
Melville, Herman

-Essays
Montaigne, Michel de

-History
Morante, Elsa

-Beloved
Morrison, Toni

-The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu

-The Man Without Qualities
Musil, Robert

-Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir

-Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell, George

-Metamorphoses
Ovid

-The Book of Disquiet
Pessoa, Fernando

-Tales
Poe, Edgar Allan

-In Search of Lost Time
Proust, Marcel

-Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelais, François

-Pedro Páramo
Rulfo, Juan

-Masnavi
Rumi

-Midnight's Children
Rushdie, Salman

-Bostan
Saadi

-Blindness
Saramago, José

-Hamlet
Shakespeare, William

-King Lear
Shakespeare, William

-Othello
Shakespeare, William

-Oedipus the King
Sophocles


-The Red and the Black
Stendhal

-Tristram Shandy
Sterne, Laurence

-Confessions of Zeno
Svevo, Italo

-Gulliver's Travels
Swift, Jonathan

-War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo

-Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo

-The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tolstoy, Leo

-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark

-Ramayana
Valmiki

-Aeneid
Virgil

-Mahabharata
Vyasa

-Leaves of Grass
Whitman, Walt

-Mrs Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia

-To the Lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia

-Memoirs of Hadrian
Yourcenar, Marguerite

some of these titles tho...

Richhommie:
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You have nothing else to contribute apart from your fullstop? Tanx for stopping by

missEmjay:

Hahaha... if you say so. People will soon add to that '99 problems'. And hope you enjoyed 1984 too? One of my favorites. And.... just a guess. Was it JAMB that made you read 1984, twas on their syllabus last year

Not really: I read it in my SS2 (2005). Read it again for Jamb. Quite interesting

DikSin:

Not really: I read it in my SS2 (2005). Read it again for Jamb. Quite interesting

Thought as much.

missEmjay:

Five?! Well, you've tried. Time to start buying? When you can download most for free online.

having the books has always been a better option for me.

Mayydayy:
having the books has always been a better option for me.

You can HAVE them in soft copies too on your phone. Well, not everyone likes ebooks tho. This is one of the times I wish I owned a bookstore. Imagine me selling all these books to you... hehehe

Many things attract me to a girl,
I have never met a female lover of books that I didn't like immediately.