Here is my list of 100 favourite books. I’d like to know which ones you think I should drop, and what you substitute for them?

1. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
2. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
3. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
4. Watership Down – Richard Adams
5. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
6. Emma – Jane Austen
7. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
8. Persuasion – Jane Austen
9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
11. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
12. The Sea – John Banville
13. The Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker
14. A Long Long Way – Sebastian Barry
15. The Secret Scripture – Sebastian Barry
16. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
17. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
18. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
19. Possession – AS Byatt
20. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
21. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
22. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
23. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
24. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
25. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
26. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
27. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
28. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
29. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
30. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
31. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
32. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
33. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
34. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
35. Middlemarch – George Eliot
36. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
37. On Green Dolphin Street – Sebastian Faulks
38. Absalom, Absalom – William Faulkner
39. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
40. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
41. The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford
42. A Passage to India – E M Forster
43. Notes on an Exhibition – Patrick Gale
44. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
45. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
46. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
47. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
48. Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
49. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
50. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
51. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
52. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
53. The Old Man and The Sea – Ernest Hemingway
54. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
55. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
56. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
57. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
58. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
59. Daisy Miller – Henry James
60. Washington Square – Henry James
61. Heat and Dust – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
62. Ulysses – James Joyce
63. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
64. The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
65. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
66. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
67. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
68. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
69. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
70. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
71. Atonement – Ian McEwan
72. Amongst Women – John McGahern
73. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
74. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
75. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
76. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
77. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne – Brian Moore
78. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
79. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
80. Animal Farm – George Orwell
81. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
82. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
83. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
84. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
85. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
86. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
87. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
88. Heidi – Johanna Spyri
89. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
90. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
91. Dracula – Bram Stoker
92. The Blackwater Lightship – Colm Toibin
93. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
94. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
95. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
96. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
97. The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
98. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
99. Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
100. Germinal – Emile Zola