This is a list of the BBC All-Time "top 100" Most Loved Books. This sort of list is really quite subjective - and shows a preponderance of British writers. But I like to see how many I have read and get idea for future picks. I really need to check out Terry Pratchett, a multiple place holder. I am surprised that there are no Maeve Binchy titles - our current book club author, then again, she is Irish!
And, no, I have not read the Harry Potter books. My kids have read and re-read them and I have seen the movies. The genre is not of interest to me.
I have highlighted the ones I have read, not quite half.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 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 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë13.
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 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'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 Carroll31.
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 Dickens35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl36.
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37.
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, 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 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 Steinbeck53. The Stand, Stephen King54.
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55.
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
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
75.
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77.
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
79.
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80.
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81.
The Twits, Roald Dahl
82.
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
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
4 comments:
I'm so "borrowing" this for my book blog!
Hey, there's also a list out there of the books most people have lied about reading. I've got it here: http://smalltownmombooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-lie.html
41.
Do you know what's odd? I've seen this list four times now and every time, the list is slightly different. This is the first time I've seen it with the Anya Seton book and "The Thorn Birds."
I'm surprised to see Ulysses on the list. I refuse to believe anyone has ever read that book all the way through. This is an intriguing list with its odd range from kiddy lit (Winnie the Pooh) to some incredibly dense and ambitious adult novels. I think I'm like you -- over the years have probably read about half.
Terry Prachett is fun, very quirky, although I haven't read the books by him that are on this list.
Now I'm going to take a look at that list of most lied about, and see which ones I'm guilty of fudging on.
I did this one on Facebook and had 58 books. Apparently, bloggers are also readers. Makes sense.
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