Books I've Read from the BBC's Big Read Top 100

Submitted by Faustess on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 02:34
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  1. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (Just Fellowship of the Ring so far!)
  2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  3. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (read all 3!)
  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 - A.A. Milne
  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
  9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
  10. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
  11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  12. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
  13. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
  14. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  15. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. 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 - J.K. Rowling
  23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
  24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
  25. The Hobbit - J.R.R. 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 García Márquez
  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 - L.M. 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 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. Naughts 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 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
  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
  100. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
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Books I've Read from the BBC's Big Read Top 100
professor10/22/2007

That's an impressive total. Of those you've not yet read, I can recommend the following:

Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

Faustess10/24/2007

I've thought for awhile that I'd like Tess..., but for whatever reason I just haven't gotten to it yet. I don't know much about Gormenghast - what's it about?

professor10/26/2007

I rated Tess Of The D'Urbervilles 5 out of 5, but Far From The Madding Crowd might even be slightly better.

Gormenghast &nbsp is a gothic fantasy in the style of Tolkien crossed with Dickens. Brilliantly written, the last book in this trillogy can easily be skipped because it reads almost like a weaker sequel. Click on the (Amazon) link and read the reviews. The character of Steerpike must be one of the greatest anti-heroes in literature, even more interesting than Salinger's Holden Caulfield (IMHO). The story of Steerpike makes the second book a masterpiece. If you like Lord of the Rings and His Dark Materials, I preferred Gormenghast to either of those.

Faustess01/21/2009

So far my plan is to read 3 of these this year: The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkein, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas. We'll see... My reading goals for the year are pretty ambitious - esp. with a new baby!