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"I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what? They never find him. And you know why they never find him? It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid."

—Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts], Recurring Saturday Night Live comedy bit

 

Lists of Bests - BBC's "The Big Read" - Top 100 Books



The Lord of the Rings 
   
    1
    by J.R.R. Tolkien


Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) 
   
    2
    by Jane Austen


His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) 
   
    3
    by Philip Pullman


The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 
   
    4
    by Douglas Adams


Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 
   
    5
    *
    by J. K. Rowling


To Kill a Mockingbird 
   
    6
    by Harper Lee


Winnie-the-Pooh 
   
    7
    by A. A. Milne


Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics) 
   
    8
    by George Orwell


The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition) 
   
    9
    by C. S. Lewis


Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) 
   
    10
    by Charlotte Brontë


Catch-22 
   
    11
    by Joseph Heller


Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) 
   
    12
    by Emily Brontë


Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War 
   
    13
    by Sebastian Faulks


Rebecca (Longman Fiction Series) 
   
    14
    *
    by Daphne du Maurier


The Catcher in the Rye 
   
    15
    by J. D. Salinger
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