|
Number of Readers |
Book |
|
185
|
1 |
Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen |
|
128
|
2 |
The Lord of the
Rings - JRR Tolkien |
|
143
|
3 |
Jane Eyre -
Charlotte Bronte |
|
251
|
4 |
Harry Potter
(any of the series)
- JK Rowling |
|
363
|
5 |
To Kill a
Mockingbird - Harper Lee |
|
236
|
6 |
The Bible |
|
124
|
7 |
Wuthering Heights -
Emily Bronte |
|
157
|
8 |
Nineteen Eighty Four
- George Orwell |
|
20
|
9 |
His Dark Materials -
Philip Pullman |
|
137
|
10 |
Great Expectations -
Charles Dickens |
|
166
|
11 |
Little Women -
Louisa M Alcott |
|
68
|
12 |
Tess of the
D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy |
|
61
|
13 |
Catch 22 - Joseph
Heller |
|
68
|
14 |
Complete Works of
Shakespeare |
|
67
|
15 |
Rebecca - Daphne Du
Maurier |
|
155
|
16 |
The Hobbit - JRR
Tolkien |
|
6
|
17 |
Birdsong - Sebastian
Faulk |
|
138
|
18 |
Catcher in the Rye -
JD Salinger |
|
27
|
19 |
The Time
Traveler's
Wife - Audrey Niffenegger |
|
14
|
20 |
Middlemarch - George
Eliot |
|
135
|
21 |
Gone With The Wind -
Margaret Mitchel |
|
256
|
22 |
The Great Gatsby - F
Scott Fitzgerald |
|
18
|
23 |
Bleak House -
Charles Dickens |
|
39
|
24 |
War and Peace - Leo
Tolstoy |
|
57
|
25 |
The Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams |
|
16
|
26 |
Brideshead Revisited
- Evelyn Waugh |
|
84
|
27 |
Crime and Punishment
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
|
126
|
28 |
Grapes of Wrath -
John Steinbeck |
|
156
|
29 |
Alice in Wonderland
- Lewis Carroll |
|
64
|
30 |
The Wind in the
Willows - Kenneth Grahame |
|
42
|
31 |
Anna Karenina - Leo
Tolstoy |
|
59
|
32 |
David Copperfield -
Charles Dickens |
|
194
|
33 |
Chronicles of Narnia
- CS Lewis |
|
68
|
34 |
Emma - Jane Austen |
|
40
|
35 |
Persuasion - Jane
Austen |
|
25
|
36 |
The Brothers
Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
|
71
|
37 |
The Kite Runner -
Khaled Hosseini |
|
8
|
38 |
Captain Corelli’s
Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres |
|
78
|
39 |
Memoirs of a Geisha
- Arthur Golden |
|
178
|
40 |
Winnie the Pooh - AA
Milne |
|
250
|
41 |
Animal Farm - George
Orwell |
|
166
|
42 |
The Da Vinci Code -
Dan Brown |
|
36
|
43 |
One Hundred Years of
Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
|
17
|
44 |
A Prayer for Owen
Meany - John Irving |
|
10
|
45 |
The Woman in White -
Wilkie Collins |
|
128
|
46 |
Anne of Green Gables
- LM Montgomery |
|
21
|
47 |
Far From The Madding
Crowd - Thomas Hardy |
|
34
|
48 |
The Handmaid’s Tale
- Margaret Atwood |
|
283
|
49 |
Lord of the Flies -
William Golding |
|
26
|
50 |
Atonement - Ian
McEwan |
|
37
|
51 |
Life of Pi - Yann
Martel |
|
42
|
52 |
Dune - Frank Herbert |
|
10
|
53 |
Cold Comfort Farm -
Stella Gibbons |
|
79
|
54 |
Sense and
Sensibility - Jane Austen |
|
3
|
55 |
A Suitable Boy -
Vikram Seth |
|
13
|
56 |
The Shadow of the
Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
|
161
|
57 |
A Tale Of Two Cities
- Charles Dickens |
|
101
|
58 |
Brave New World -
Aldous Huxley |
|
33
|
59 |
The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon |
|
39
|
60 |
Love In The Time Of
Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
|
235
|
61 |
Of Mice and Men -
John Steinbeck |
|
25
|
62 |
Lolita - Vladimir
Nabokov |
|
4
|
63 |
The Secret History -
Donna Tartt |
|
80
|
64 |
The Lovely Bones -
Alice Sebold |
|
108
|
65 |
Count of Monte
Cristo - Alexandre Dumas |
|
23
|
66 |
On The Road - Jack
Kerouac |
|
11
|
67 |
Jude the Obscure -
Thomas Hardy |
|
63
|
68 |
Bridget Jones’s
Diary - Helen Fielding |
|
6
|
69 |
Midnight’s Children
- Salman Rushdie |
|
108
|
70 |
Moby Dick - Herman
Melville |
|
90
|
71 |
Oliver Twist -
Charles Dickens |
|
68
|
72 |
Dracula - Bram
Stoker |
|
169
|
73 |
The Secret Garden -
Frances Hodgson Burnett |
|
7
|
74 |
Notes From A Small
Island - Bill Bryson |
|
56
|
75 |
Ulysses - James
Joyce |
|
44
|
76 |
The Bell Jar -
Sylvia Plath |
|
6
|
77 |
Swallows and Amazons
- Arthur Ransome |
|
7
|
78 |
Germinal - Emile
Zola |
|
19
|
79 |
Vanity Fair -
William Makepeace Thackeray |
|
9
|
80 |
Possession - AS
Byatt |
|
193
|
81 |
A Christmas Carol -
Charles Dickens |
|
7
|
82 |
Cloud Atlas - David
Mitchell |
|
110
|
83 |
The Color Purple -
Alice Walker |
|
15
|
84 |
The Remains of the
Day - Kazuo Ishiguro |
|
53
|
85 |
Madame Bovary -
Gustave Flaubert |
|
4
|
86 |
Fine Balance -
Rohinton Mistry |
|
322
|
87 |
Charlotte’s Web - EB
White |
|
88
|
88 |
The Five People You
Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom |
|
94
|
89 |
Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
|
7
|
90 |
The Faraway Tree
Collection - Enid Blyton |
|
55
|
91 |
Heart of Darkness -
Joseph Conrad |
|
97
|
92 |
The Little Prince -
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
|
4
|
93 |
The Wasp Factory -
Iain Banks |
|
56
|
94 |
Watership Down -
Richard Adams |
|
13
|
95 |
A Confederacy of
Dunces -John Kennedy Toole |
|
11
|
96 |
A Town Like Alice -
Nevil Shute |
|
82
|
97 |
The Three Musketeers
- Alexandre Dumas |
|
59
|
98 |
Beloved - Toni
Morrison |
|
218
|
99 |
Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl |
|
85
|
100 |
Les Miserables -
Victor Hugo |
believes most people will have only
read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?