1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
6. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
7. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
8. Emma by Jane Austen
9. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
10. Middlemarch by George Eliot
11. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
12. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
13. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
14. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
15. Dracula by Bram Stoker
16. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
17. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
18. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
19. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
20. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
21. Howards End by E.M. Forster
22. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
23. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
24. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
25. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
26. Atonement by Ian McEwan
27. Saturday by Ian McEwan
28. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
29. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
30. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
31. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
32. NW by Zadie Smith
33. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
34. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
35. The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
36. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
37. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
38. The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
39. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
40. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
41. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
42. The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
43. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
44. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
45. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
46. The Comforters by Muriel Spark
47. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
48. Money by Martin Amis
49. London Fields by Martin Amis
50. The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
51. Possession by A.S. Byatt
52. The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt
53. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
54. The Magus by John Fowles
55. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
56. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
57. Smiley’s People by John le Carré
58. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
59. Filth by Irvine Welsh
60. The Acid House by Irvine Welsh
61. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
62. Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
63. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
64. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
65. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
66. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
67. Number9Dream by David Mitchell
68. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
69. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
70. Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
71. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
72. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
73. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
74. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
75. Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
76. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
77. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
78. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
79. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
80. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
81. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
82. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
83. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
84. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
85. His Dark Materials (trilogy) by Philip Pullman
86. Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) by Philip Pullman
87. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
88. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
89. Skellig by David Almond
90. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
91. Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
92. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
93. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
94. Small Island by Andrea Levy
95. The Long Song by Andrea Levy
96. The Legacy by Katherine Webb
97. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
98. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
99. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
100. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters