100 Best Foreign Books of All Time: Literary Works

This is a list of 100 books spread widely on the Internet with a Tagline accompanying that. "most of BBC readers only read about 6 out of 100 books on this list?

Many of these are familiar names like. Pride and Prejudice, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit. Or War and Peace.

1. Pride and Prejudice (Pride and Prejudice) - Jane Austen.

2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien.

3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.

4. Harry Potter series (Harry Potter series) - JK Rowling.

5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee.

6. The Bible

7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.

8. Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) - George Orwell.

9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman.

10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.

11. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott.

12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy.

13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller.

14. Complete Works of Shakespeare

15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier.

16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien.

17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger.

19. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger.

20. Middlemarch - George Eliot

21. Gone With The Wind - Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell.

22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald.

24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy.

25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams.

27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck.

29. Alice in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland) - Lewis Caroll.

30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame.

31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy.

32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens.

33. Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia) - CS Lewis.

34. Emma -Jane Austen

35. Persuasion (Persuasion) - Jane Austen.

36. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (CS, 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 (Memories of a Geisha) - Arthur Golden.

40. Winnie the Pooh (Cute Pooh Bear) - AA Milne.

41. Animal Farm - George Orwell.

42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown.

43. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving.

45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins.

46. Anne of Green Gables (Anne redhead under green house) - 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 (Sand Country) - 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. 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 (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 (Count Dracula) - Bram Stoker.

73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett.

74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson.

75. Ulysses - James Joyce

76. The Inferno - Dante

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 - David Mitchell.

83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.

84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro.

85. Madame Bovary (Mrs. 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 (In French)

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 (Charlie and the chocolate factory) - Roald Dahl.

100. Les Miserables (Miserable people) - Victor Hugo.