100 books the BBC thinks you oughtta read.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - x
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - x
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - x
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - x
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - x
6. The Bible - x
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - x
8. 1984 - George Orwell - x
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - x
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - x
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - x
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 - x
7. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - x
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 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - x
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - x
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - x
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - x
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - x
34. Emma - Jane Austen - x
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen - x
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - x
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - x
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - x
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell - x
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - x
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - x
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding - x
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel - x
52. Dune - Frank Herbert - x
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - x
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 - x
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 - x
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - x
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - x
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Inferno - Dante
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - x
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - x
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
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 - x
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - x
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - x
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - x
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams - x
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - x
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - x
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - x
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - x

And I've read a whole 45 of them. Take that.
On my book list are now Memoirs of a Geisha, Lolita, and Dracula.
I'm going to have to try Grapes of Wrath and Crime & Punishment now too.