BBC: Top 100 Books

From http://www.theredheadedprincess.com

According to this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml, BBC in 2003 asked English folks to send in  their favourite book. From the results the top 100 books emerged. I am interested in reading most of these books in the near and distant future. I will use this forum to keep track of my readings: highlighting when I last remembered reading the book.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (2012) (2016) [Blog Review Posted]

3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

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 (1999/2000) (2013) [Goodreads Review Posted]

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 Brontë (2013) [Goodreads Review Posted]

11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (2000/2001)

13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier (2013)

15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (1990 or thereabout)

17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (2013)

18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (1996, 2014)

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’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 (1990 or there about)

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    [2019] Goodreads Review Posted]

36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (1995, 2014) [Goodreads Review Posted]

37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute

38. Persuasion, Jane Austen (2012, 2013, 2016) [Blog Review Posted]

39. Dune, Frank Herbert

40. Emma, Jane Austen (2012)

41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery (2016) [Goodreads Review Posted]

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 (2013) [Goodreads Review Posted]

48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy (2019)

49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian

50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016) [Blog Review Posted]

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 (sometime around 1990 or earlier)

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  (2015-2016) [Blog Review Posted]

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

I invite your responses on which are your favourites, your dislikes or the books you are eager to read. The books with the  strike-through indicates that I have read them. Are there any other interesting book challenges that you want to share? For example, best history texts etc.

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