1 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

2 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë

3 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë

4 Middlemarch George Eliot

5 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier

6 Persuasion Jane Austen

7 Frankenstein Mary Shelley

8 Emma Jane Austen

9 Unless Carol Shields

10 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

11 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood

12 White Teeth Zadie Smith

13 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone JK Rowling

14 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell

15 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

16 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire JK Rowling

17 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver

18= Silas Marner George Eliot; Possession AS Byatt

20 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy

21= Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf; The Mill on the Floss George Eliot

23= Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding; Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen

25 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood

26 Chocolat Joanne Harris

27 The Shipping News E Annie Proulx

28 Little Women Louisa May Alcott

29= The Sea, the Sea Iris Murdoch; I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith

31 Family Bites Lisa Williams

32= Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J K Rowling; The Shell Seekers Rosamund Pilcher

34= Orlando Virginia Woolf; The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough

36 Fingersmith Sarah Waters

37= Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier; Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson; Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys

40 The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean Auel

41 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath

42 The Secret History Donna Tartt

43 Five Quarters of the Orange Joanne Harris

44= Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban JK Rowling; Beloved Toni Morrison

46 Bel Canto Ann Patchett

47 Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner

48 The Bell Iris Murdoch

49 Regeneration Pat Barker

50= The Bone People Keri Hulme; The Color Purple Alice Walker