Friday, February 17, 2006

BBC Big Read

101 Things to do in 1001 days #59

Oh dear, I may have overstretched myself, I'll never finish War & Peace in the time I have left....Books in bold I have read, books in italic I think I have read. I have a lot to read here.

1. Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkein

2. Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen

3. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

4. The Hitchhikers 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

8. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis

10. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

11. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

12. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

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 M Allcott

19. Capatain 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 Prisioner of Azkaban – Jk Rowling

25. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkein

26. Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy

27. Middlemarch – George Elliot

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

33. The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett

34. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

36. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

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

42. Watership Down – Richard Adams

43. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

44. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

45. Brideshead Revisted – 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. Nought and Crosses – Malorie Blackman

62. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

63. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

64. The Thorn Birds – Collen 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 Tessell

73. Night Watch – Terry Pratchett

74. Matilda – Roald Dahl

75. Bridget Jones 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 Sacher

84. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake

85. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

86. Vicky Angel – Jacqueline Wilson

87. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

88. Col Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

89. Magician – Raymond E Feirst

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 Garcia Marquez

98. Girls in Love – Jacqueline Wilson

99. The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot

100. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie


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