Progress (24/100)
BBC Big Read: Top 100 books -
1 The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (Really want to read it)
3 His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
6 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7 Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne (Want to read it)
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
11 Catch-22, Joseph Heller
13 Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14 Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15 The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16 The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
19 Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20 War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26 Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27 Middlemarch, George Eliot
28 A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29 The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
31 The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32 One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Don't want to read it :( I have to if I want to finish the list)
33 The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett (WANT!)
37 A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38 Persuasion, Jane Austen
39 Dune, Frank Herbert
40 Emma, Jane Austen
42 Watership Down, Richard Adams
43 The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
45 Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46 Animal Farm, George Orwell
48 Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49 Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50 The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51 The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
53 The Stand, Stephen King
54 Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55 A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56 The BFG, Roald Dahl
57 Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58 Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59 Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60 Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61 Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
64 The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65 Mort, Terry Pratchett
66 The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67 The Magus, John Fowles
68 Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69 Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70 Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
72 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73 Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74 Matilda, Roald Dahl
75 Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76 The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77 The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78 Ulysses, James Joyce
79 Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80 Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81 The Twits, Roald Dahl
82 I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83 Holes, Louis Sachar
84 Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85 The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86 Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87 Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88 Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89 Magician, Raymond E Feist
90 On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91 The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92 The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93 The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
95 Katherine, Anya Seton
96 Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
98 Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99 The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100 Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
I have read some of the books on this big read list. To save a bit of typing, I'll list the books I have read by their number: 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 22, 23, 24, 25, 39, 46, 65, 73, 87.
ReplyDeleteSome of the books on this list I have not read, but I have seen movies based on them: 2, 6, 7, 11, 17, 18, 21, 27, 29, 30, 34, 35, 36, 40, 42, 47, 51, 53, 62, 75, 91, 92, 99.
Some of my favorites are Tolkien's books, the entire Dune series by Frank Herbert (I also like the additional Dune sequels written by his son Brian), and a number of books by Terry Pratchett. Terry has a unique style that combines science fiction, fantasy, and great humor. I really love his books!
Enjoy your reading! :)