| 1. | 1984 - George Orwell |
| 2. | 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke |
| 3. | A Child Called 'It' - Dave Pelzer |
| 4. | A History of the Crusades - Steven Runciman |
| 5. | A History of the English-Speaking Peoples - Winston Churchill |
| 6. | A la recherche du temps perdu - Proust |
| 7. | A Life of Charlotte Brontë - Elizabeth Gaskell |
| 8. | A People's Tragedy - Orlando Figes |
| 9. | A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle |
| 10. | Alexander Trilogy - Mary Renault |
| 11. | Babar - Jean de Brunhoff |
| 12. | Beloved - Toni Morrison |
| 13. | Brave New World - Aldous Huxley |
| 14. | Canterbury Tales - Chaucer |
| 15. | Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution - Simon Schama |
| 16. | Collected Poems - Ted Hughes |
| 17. | Collected Poems - W. B. Yeats |
| 18. | Confessions - St Augustine |
| 19. | Das Kapital - Karl Marx |
| 20. | David Copperfield - Charles Dickens |
| 21. | Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville |
| 22. | Diaries - Alan Clark |
| 23. | Divine Comedy - Dante |
| 24. | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick |
| 25. | Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak |
| 26. | Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss |
| 27. | Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey |
| 28. | For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway |
| 29. | Foundation - Isaac Asimov |
| 30. | Frankenstein - Mary Shelley |
| 31. | Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell |
| 32. | Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves |
| 33. | Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift |
| 34. | Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling |
| 35. | His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman |
| 36. | How to Cook - Delia Smith |
| 37. | I, Claudius - Robert Graves |
| 38. | If This is a Man - Primo Levi |
| 39. | Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë |
| 40. | Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach |
| 41. | Killshot - Elmore Leonard |
| 42. | L'Encyclopédie - Diderot, et al |
| 43. | Le Morte D'Arthur - Thomas Malory |
| 44. | Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos |
| 45. | Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes |
| 46. | Lives of the Artists - Vasari |
| 47. | Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius |
| 48. | Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert |
| 49. | Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian |
| 50. | Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man - Siegfried Sassoon |
| 51. | Middlemarch - George Eliot |
| 52. | Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie |
| 53. | Neuromancer - William Gibson |
| 54. | Odes - John Keats |
| 55. | On the Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud |
| 56. | On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin |
| 57. | On War - Carl von Clausewitz |
| 58. | One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez |
| 59. | Paradise Lost - John Milton |
| 60. | Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen |
| 61. | Rabbit series - John Updike |
| 62. | Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier |
| 63. | Red Dragon - Thomas Harris |
| 64. | Schott's Original Miscellany - Ben Schott |
| 65. | Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T. E. Lawrence |
| 66. | Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake |
| 67. | Sonnets - Shakespeare |
| 68. | Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome |
| 69. | Sword of Honour trilogy - Evelyn Waugh |
| 70. | Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy |
| 71. | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle |
| 72. | The Ballad of Peckham Rye - Muriel Spark |
| 73. | The Barchester Chronicles - Anthony Trollope |
| 74. | The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf |
| 75. | The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler |
| 76. | The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 77. | The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham |
| 78. | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon |
| 79. | The Histories - Herodotus |
| 80. | The History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides |
| 81. | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams |
| 82. | The Human Stain - Philip Roth |
| 83. | The Illiad and The Odyssey - Homer |
| 84. | The Life of Dr Johnson - Boswell |
| 85. | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis |
| 86. | The Lord of the Rings - J.R. R. Tolkien |
| 87. | The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett |
| 88. | The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe |
| 89. | The Origins of the Second World War - A.J.P. Taylor |
| 90. | The Plantagenet Saga - Jean Plaidy |
| 91. | The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James |
| 92. | The Prelude - William Wordsworth |
| 93. | The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli |
| 94. | The Railway Children - E. Nesbit |
| 95. | The Rights of Man - Tom Paine |
| 96. | The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| 97. | The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith |
| 98. | The Time Machine - H.G. Wells |
| 99. | The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell |
| 100. | The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot |
| 101. | The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame |
| 102. | The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins |
| 103. | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carré |
| 104. | Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 105. | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne |
| 106. | Ulysses - James Joyce |
| 107. | Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray |
| 108. | War and Peace - Tolstoy |
| 109. | Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne |
| 110. | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig |