The top ten:

  1. Middlemarch by George Eliot

  2. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

  3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

  4. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

  5. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

  6. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

  7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

  8. Disgrace by JM Coetzee

  9. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

  10. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

I’ve read numbers 2, 3, 5, and 10.

Of the rest of the 100 books listed, I’ve read the following:

  1. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells

  2. 1984 by George Orwell

  3. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

  4. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

  5. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

  6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

  7. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

  8. The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse

  9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

  10. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  11. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

  12. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  13. The Trial by Franz Kafka

  14. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

  15. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

  16. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

  17. The Stranger by Albert Camus

  18. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

  19. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

  20. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee