Top 100 de carti care trebuiesc citite intr-o viata conform postului de televizi une BBC. 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 Bront 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bront 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 Garca Mrquez 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 Sskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl (se pune daca am vazut filmul?) 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 Garca Mrquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight s Children, Salman Rushd 100 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein 99 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 98 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore 97 The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 96 One Thousand and One Nights Anon 95 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 94 Midnight s Children by Salman Rushdie 93 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carr 92 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 91 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki 90 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 89 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing 88 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 87 On the Road by Jack Kerouac

86 Old Goriot by Honor de Balzac 85 The Red and the Black by Stendhal 84 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 83 Germinal by Emile Zola 82 The Stranger by Albert Camus 81The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 80 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey 79 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 77 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 76 The Trial by Franz Kafka 75 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee 74 Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan 73 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque 72 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler 71 The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin 70 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 69 If On a Winter s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino 68 Crash by JG Ballard 67 A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul 66 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 65 Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 64 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz 63 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 62 Gulliver s Travels by Jonathan Swift 61 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk 60 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garca Mrquez 59 London Fields by Martin Amis 58 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolao 57 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse 56 The Tin Drum by Gnter Grass 55 Austerlitz by WG Sebald 54 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 53 The Handmaid s Tale by Margaret Atwood 52 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 51 Underworld by Don DeLillo 50 Beloved by Toni Morrison 49 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 48 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin 47The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 46 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 45 The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet 44 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 43 The Rabbit books by John Updike 42 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 41 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 40 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 39 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 38 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 37 The Warden by Anthony Trollope 36 Les Misrables by Victor Hugo 35 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 34 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 33 Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 32 A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell 31 Suite Francaise by Irne Nmirovsky 30 Atonement by Ian McEwan 29 Life: a User s Manual by Georges Perec 28 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 27 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 26 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

25 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 24 Ulysses by James Joyce 23 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 22 A Passage to India by EM Forster 21 1984 by George Orwell 20 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 19 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 18 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 17 Tess of the D Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 16 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 15 The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse 14 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront 13 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 12 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 11 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 10 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 9 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 8 Disgrace by JM Coetzee 7 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront 6 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 5 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 4 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. 3 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. 2 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 1 Middlemarch by George Eliot