the big read
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lizzy_copycati know i did this a few weeks back, but last night pj pointed me to the actual bbc top 100, so i'm doing it again. this list is from 2003, which is probably why there is no dan brown or stephenie meyer on here. i don't care, their absence still makes me feel happy and tingly inside. i do mourn the loss of william shakespeare somewhat, but mostly because i took that class my first year at uni so i have him pretty well covered.
[x] 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
[x] 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
[] 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
[x] 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (2011)
[x] 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
[x] 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
[x] 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
[x] 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
[x] 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis (2011)
[x] 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
[] 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
[x] 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
[x] 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks (2011)
[x] 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
[] 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
[x] 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
[x] 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
[x] 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
[] 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
[x] 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
[x] 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
[x] 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
[x] 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
[x] 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
[x] 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
[x] 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (2011)
[x] 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot (2012)
[x] 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
[] 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
[x] 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
[] 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
[] 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
[] 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
[] 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
[] 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
[x] 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
[] 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
[x] 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
[] 39. Dune, Frank Herbert
[x] 40. Emma, Jane Austen
[x] 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
[] 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
[] 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
[] 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
[] 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
[x] 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
[x] 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
[] 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
[] 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
[] 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
[x] 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
[] 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
[x] 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[] 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
[] 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
[x] 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (2011)
[] 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
[x] 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
[] 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
[] 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
[] 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
[] 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
[x] 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
[x] 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
[x] 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons (2012)
[] 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
[] 95. Katherine, Anya Seton
[] 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
[] 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
[] 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
[] 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
[x] 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
this will be my official bucket list of literature, which means i will, at some point in my life, read a rosamunde pilcher novel. making all those years of trying not to become my mother completely wasted.
[x] 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
[x] 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
[] 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
[x] 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (2011)
[x] 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
[x] 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
[x] 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
[x] 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
[x] 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis (2011)
[x] 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
[] 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
[x] 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
[x] 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks (2011)
[x] 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
[] 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
[x] 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
[x] 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
[x] 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
[] 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
[x] 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
[x] 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
[x] 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
[x] 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
[x] 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
[x] 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
[x] 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (2011)
[x] 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot (2012)
[x] 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
[] 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
[x] 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
[] 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
[] 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
[] 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
[] 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
[] 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
[x] 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
[] 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
[x] 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
[] 39. Dune, Frank Herbert
[x] 40. Emma, Jane Austen
[x] 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
[] 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
[] 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
[] 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
[] 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
[x] 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
[x] 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
[] 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
[] 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
[] 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
[x] 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
[] 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
[x] 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[] 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
[] 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
[x] 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (2011)
[] 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
[x] 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
[] 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
[] 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
[] 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
[] 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
[x] 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
[x] 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
[x] 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons (2012)
[] 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
[] 95. Katherine, Anya Seton
[] 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
[] 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
[] 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
[] 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
[x] 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
this will be my official bucket list of literature, which means i will, at some point in my life, read a rosamunde pilcher novel. making all those years of trying not to become my mother completely wasted.
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Date: 2009-11-15 02:28 pm (UTC)However The Lord of the Rings is amazing and my books are falling apart I have read them so many times :P as are my Harry Potter series and Jane Eyre XD
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Date: 2009-11-15 10:24 pm (UTC)i have to admit i sort of struggled through lotr. i want to like it, i really do, but it's just soooo slow. but yeah, my hp books have been read a lot, too. lol.
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Date: 2009-11-15 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-29 02:03 pm (UTC)But I've definitely read more than six! :) And I really need to buy new copies for the first four books of HP.
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Date: 2010-01-29 05:26 pm (UTC)i have a lot of them as well, and just never got around to reading them. (narnia has been on my bedside table for about two months now. i feel pretty awful about that.)