nimrodiel: (book-ish)
nimrodiel ([personal profile] nimrodiel) wrote2005-10-20 08:40 am

BBC Top 100 books

I think inlaterdays would appreciate this list as well.


those struck out I have read

1. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Predjuice - Jane Austen TBR
3. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass

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 TBR
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 TBR
11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks TBR
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'Ubervilles - 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
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 Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm - George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
48. Far from the Maddening 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 Vol. 1
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
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 Süskind
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 Captured the Castle - Dodie Smith
83. Holes - Louis Sacher TBR
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
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