Sunday, May 16, 2010

What I want to do (1) : Read the whole BBC Big Read list

One of the things on my "To-do" list is to read every book mentioned in the BBC big read list. There are 200 books in the list, so it'll take me years to finish, but I'm fine with that. I'm working on the first 100 books now.

Progress (24/100)

BBC Big Read: Top 100 books -
1 The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (Really want to read it)
2 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (Amazing book)
3 His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7 Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne (Want to read it)
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (Love it! I re-read it every year )
11 Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12 Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (Too Dramatic, didn't really like it)
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
17 Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18 Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19 Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20 War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21 Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23 Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
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
30 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
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!)
34 David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35 Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36 Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (One of the best)
37 A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38 Persuasion, Jane Austen
39 Dune, Frank Herbert
40 Emma, Jane Austen
41 Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery (Lovely book)
42 Watership Down, Richard Adams
43 The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44 The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (Amazing! A must-read!)
45 Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46 Animal Farm, George Orwell
47 A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
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
52 Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
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
62 Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden (Didn't really like it)
63 A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
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
71 Perfume, Patrick Suskind
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
94 The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (Nice book, but no storyline)
95 Katherine, Anya Seton
96 Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97 Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Didn't like it at all)
98 Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99 The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100 Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

1 comment:

  1. 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.

    Some 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! :)

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