We all have few books we especially love and cherish. We keep coming back to them for comfort and wisdom. But every once in a while, it’s nice to branch out and try adding some new tomes to your collection.

Look no further. FunnyModo has brought you a list of 200 of the most extraordinary books, put together by the BBC. Ready, set, read!

A

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
• Atonement by Ian McEwan

B

• Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson
• The Beach by Alex Garland
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
• The BFG or Big Friendly Giant by Roald Dahl
• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

C

• Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
• The Catcher in the Rye by Jerome David Salinger
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
• The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat

D

• Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
• The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
• The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
• Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
• Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson

E

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Emma by Jane Austen

F

• Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
• Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
• The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
• Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
• The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

G

• George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
• Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson
• Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson
• Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• Goodnight, Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
• Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
• Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Green Mile by Stephen King
• Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

H

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

I

• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson
• It by Stephen King

J

• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach
• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

K

• Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
• Katherine by Anya Seton
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling

L

• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Clive Staples Lewis
• The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

M

• Magician by Raymond E Feist
• The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
• The Magus by John Fowles
• Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
• Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Mort by Terry Pratchett

N

• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
• Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

O

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• The Once and Future King by T.H. White
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

P

• Papillon by Henri Charriere
• Perfume by Patrick Süskind
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

R

• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
• Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• River God by Wilbur Smith

S

• Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
• The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
• Shogun by James Clavell
• Silas Marner by George Eliot
• The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
• Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
• Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson
• Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
• Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
• Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
• Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
• The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
• The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
• Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

T

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
• Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
• The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough
• Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Truth by Terry Pratchett
• The Twits by Roald Dahl

U

• Ulysses by James Joyce
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

V

• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson

W

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
• The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Winnie the Pooh by Alan Alexander Milne
• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• The World According to Garp by John Irving
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

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