How many of the BBC's top 100 books have you read?
A list of the top 100 most influential novels has been released by BBC Arts.
Devised by a panel, which included authors Juno Dawson and Kit de Waal together with Radio 4 Front Row presenter Stig Abell, the list includes a wide range of English language novels written in the past 300 years.
It was compiled to mark the 300th anniversary of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe being published.
The list is broken up into 10 categories, dictated by subject area rather than genre.
These sections range from Crime & Conflict and Coming of Age to Rule Breakers and Adventure.
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Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’ Diary features on the Love, Sex & Romance list, while Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things are included in the Identity list.
Well-known, widely-studied classics such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and George Orwell’s 1984 are there, alongside children’s books The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis and Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman.
You can view the full, comprehensive top 100 list on the BBC website. The broadcaster has invited people to share the novels that have shaped them on its Facebook page, or use the hashtag #mybooklife on Twitter.
The list has been released to kick start a year-long celebrations of literature by the BBC. As part of an initiative led by Libraries Connected and supported by Arts Council England, the organisation will be partnering with libraries around the UK.
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Panellists will discuss the top 10 list tomorrow, Friday 8 November, during a panel event at the British Library chaired by presenter Jo Whiley. The event live-streamed to BBC iPlayer.
Last month, the winner of the prestigious Booker Prize was announced. Authors Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo were jointly awarded the prize. Atwood for The Testaments – her long-anticipated follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale – and Evaristo for her novel Girl, Woman, Other.
The move broke official Booker prize rules – which have, since a previous tie in 1992, specified the prize could not be shared. The only other tie was in 1974.
However, after five hours of deliberation, judges concluded they “couldn’t separate” the two works.
BBC’s Top 100 Novels That Shaped The World
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Days Without End – Sebastian Barry
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
Small Island – Andrea Levy
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
Forever – Judy Blume
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Riders – Jilly Cooper
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Far Pavilions – M. M. Kaye
The Forty Rules of Love – Elif Shafak
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
The Slaves of Solitude – Patrick Hamilton
City of Bohane – Kevin Barry
Eye of the Needle – Ken Follett
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman
Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
Mr Standfast – John Buchan
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
The Jack Aubrey Novels – Patrick O’Brian
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkien
A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
Astonishing the Gods – Ben Okri
Dune – Frank Herbert
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis
The Discworld Series – Terry Pratchett
The Earthsea Trilogy – Ursula K. Le Guin
The Sandman Series – Neil Gaiman
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Noughts & Crosses – Malorie Blackman
Strumpet City – James Plunkett
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
V for Vendetta – Alan Moore
Unless – Carol Shields
A House for Mr Biswas – V. S. Naipaul
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
Poor Cow – Nell Dunn
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne – Brian Moore
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Emily of New Moon – L. M. Montgomery
Golden Child - Claire Adam
Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
So Long, See You Tomorrow – William Maxwell
Swami and Friends – R. K. Narayan
The Country Girls - Edna O’Brien
The Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling
The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ - Sue Townsend
The Twilight Saga – Stephenie Meyer
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild
Cloudstreet – Tim Winton
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
The Witches – Roald Dahl
American Tabloid – James Ellroy
American War – Omar El Akkad
Ice Candy Man – Bapsi Sidhwa
Rebecca -Daphne du Maurier
Regeneration – Pat Barker
The Children of Men – P.D. James
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Bartleby, the Scrivener – Herman Melville
Habibi – Craig Thompson
How to be Both – Ali Smith
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Psmith, Journalist – P. G. Wodehouse
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde
