I think the list came from a survey by the BBC asking people their favourite books. Although, I did a quick google and there do seem to be some variations that have crept in.:
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I think the list came from a survey by the BBC asking people their favourite books. Although, I did a quick google and there do seem to be some variations that have crept in.:
Thanks Sopdet.
I have read 38 and attempted to read quite a few more off the list but never managed to really get into them like Catch 22 & The Lord of the Rings. I have to say that I think Austen is over represented in the list - anyone else agree with Adrian Mole that she should be put in the Romance section at the library??
Anyone started anything yet? I am 1/4 of the way through the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and just got a message that The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is waiting for me to collect.
Didn't see this thread, but I did see the list on FB. I got The Kite Runner to read (amongst others...) while I was on holidays and thanks to the non-Sunshine Coast have finished it. Loved it. I might get a couple on this list too. Life of Pi I don't think I've read.
I've read 44 if I'm remembering correctly. I might find I've read a few more, but haven't included them because I can't remember the story lines from the title. I don't have the best memory for titles. It probably should be more considering I studied literature, but some of those newer ones I have no interest in at all. And I think there are a few significant Australian authors who are not represented on this list. :p
I am getting new glasses next week. So will be back into reading then. Still have 2 chapters of Sherlock Holmes to get through.
Finally finished off Sherlock Holmes, so when the glasses arrive next week I will move onto The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
So up to 15 read now, from my measley 11 that I started with LOL.
Jen, I have Life Of Pi - I can bring it Friday if you like? No rush for it back.... I hated it :rofl:
Was the only person in my book group that didn't love it, lol.
I'm just finishing off a book I'd already started (Lucky Man, Michael J Fox) and I'm going to pick one from the list :)
The List
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Various
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
1984 - George Orwell
Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles ****ens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles ****ens
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles ****ens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby **** - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles ****ens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Inferno - Dante
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransom
Germinal - Emile Zol
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackera
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles ****ens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Bleak House - Charles ****ens
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The ones in bold I have here if anyone wants to borrow them :)
PM me.
Thanks hun!:
I'll remember to bring you the one I keep meaning too. It's not on the list, but that's because it's Australian. :p to the BBC.
I have gone with the wind, but it is a bit big to post, I will be in melbourne in about a month if anyone wants to borrow it
I finished the Adventures of Tom Sawyer today. Was okay once I got into it, was hard to get into it though. So I think next on my list will be a couple I have as e books sitting on my computer.
Off to the library tomorrow to drop Tom and Sherlock back. Still waiting on Anna whatever her name is to come in via the library. I was #3 in line last time I looked, and just checked... still am. Plenty to keep me going in the mean time.
16/100 read.
I finished Anna Karenia or whatever her name is last night. I am glad to have it behind me. 820 pages later. Some chapters were okay, others dull and boring. All the chapters were in Roman Numerals, so my 2 oldest learnt Roman Numerals during the month I took to read it :)
Now back to David Copperfield that I was reading, when I got the call from the library to pick up Anna.
17/100
can i be added to the list as i am going to particpate in this so far i have done 12 but might even re-do them its been a number of years since i read most of them
have added you on ~*MrsS*~
Subbing
I didnt know this thread existed but I want in!
I will be back when I am on Pc and work out which ones I have already read.
The List What I have read so far is in bold
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Various - Read bits of but never from start to finish
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - love this book
1984 - George OrwellNorthern Lights (The Golden Compass) - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles ****ens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - brilliant book, read many times
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - again, brilliant
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Probably the best book ever written...okay, that's a big call, but one of my all time favourites!!!
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (years ago but not as adult)
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles ****ens
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Emma - Jane Austen - Jane Austen was a woman before her time
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell - George Orwell is amazing...1984 is better though
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - I am a little bit in love with Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan - reading it at the moment!
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles ****ens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Meh - thought it was a little overrated
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Steinbeck...need I say more!
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby **** - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles ****ens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - I would probably marry Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Inferno - Dante
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransom
Germinal - Emile Zol (it's actually Emil Zola)
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackera
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles ****ens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - Great book!
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - I spent my childhood with these books...And the Wishing Chair, Secret Seven, Famous Five, etc, etc (yay for Enid Blyton!)
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Bleak House - Charles ****ens
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh