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