Big Read

100 books...

1. The Lord of the rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

2. Pride and prejudice - Jane Austen *

3. His dark materials - Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams*
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire - J. K. 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 Bronte
11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller - BOOKRING
12. Wuthering heights - Emily Bronte *
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 - BOOKRING
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 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 - 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 BOOKRING
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. Noughts and crosses - Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs of a geisha - Arthur Goldman
63. A tale of two cities - Charles Dickens 
64. The thorn birds - Colleen McCullough
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
71. Perfume - Patrick Suskind 
72. The ragged trousered philanthropists - Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda - Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's diary - Helen Fielding (borrowed from Carole)
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* 1001 library book
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 - library book
98. Girls in love - Jacqueline Wilson
99. The princess diaries - Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie

The ones that almost made it: 101 - 200 

* = books I own

101. Three men in a boat - Jerome K. Jerome*
102. Small gods - Terry Pratchett
103. The beach - Alex Garland
104. Dracula - Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc - Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick papers - Charles Dickens 
107. Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
108. The wasp factory - Iain Banks
109. The day of the jackal - Frederick Forsyth
110. The illustrated mum - Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude the obscure - Thomas Hardy 
112. The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ - Sue Townsend
113. The cruel sea - Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les miserables - Victor Hugo*
115. The mayor of Castorbridge - Thomas Hardy 
116. The dare game - Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad girls - Jacqueline Wilson
118. The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 
119. Shogun - James Clavell
120. The day of the triffids - John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose - Jacqueline Wilson 
122. Vanity fair - William Makepeace Thackeray *
123. The Forsythe saga - John Galsworthy *
124. House of leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The poisonwood bible - Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper man - Terry pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs and full-frontal snogging - Louise Rennison
128. The hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle 
129. Possession - A. S. Byatt
130. The master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov Bookring
131. The handmaid's tale - Margaret Atwood
132. Danny the champion of the world - Roald Dahl 
133. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
134. George's marvellous medicine - Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd sisters - Terry Pratchett
136. The colour purple - Alice Walker
137. Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
138. The thirty-nine steps - John Buchan 
139. Girls in tears - Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers - Jacqueline Wilson
141. All quiet on the western front - Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind the scenes at the museum - Kate Atkinson
143. High fidelity - Nick Hornby
144. It - Stephen King
145. James and the giant peach - Roald Dahl 
146. The green mile - Stephen King
147. Papillon - Henri Charriere
148. Men at arms - Terry Pratchett
149. Master and commander - Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton key - Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul music - Terry Pratchett
152. Thief of time - Terry Pratchett
153. The fifth elephant - Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement - Ian McEwan - Bookray
155. Secrets - Jacqueline Wilson
156. The silver sword - Ian Serraillier
157. One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey
158. Heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad
159. Kim - Rudyard Kipling 
160. Cross stitch - Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick - Herman Melville 
162. River god - Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The shipping news - Annie Proulx *
165. The world according to Garp - John Irving
166. Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls out late - Jacqueline Wilson
168. The far pavilions - M. M. Kaye
169. The witches - Roald Dahl 
170. Charlotte's web - E. B. White
171. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
172. They used to play on grass - Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemmingway 
174. The name of the rose - Umberto Eco*
175. Sophie's world - Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin baby - Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl
178. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov*
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
180. The little prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
181. The suitcase kid - Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens *
183. The power of one - Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner - George Eliot 
185. American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
186. The diary of a nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps - R. L. Stine
189. Heidi - Johanna Spyri
190. Sons and lovers - D. H. Lawrence 
191. The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera
192. Man and boy - Tony Parsons
193. The truth - Terry Pratchett
194. The war of the worlds - H. G. Wells*
195. The horse whisperer - Nicholas Evans
196. A fine balance - Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches abroad - Terry Pratchett
198. The once and future king - T. H. White
199. The very hungry caterpillar - Eric Carle
200. Flowers in the attic - Virginia Andrews

1. The Lord of the rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

2. Pride and prejudice - Jane Austen *

3. His dark materials - Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams*
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire - J. K. 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 Bronte
11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller - BOOKRING
12. Wuthering heights - Emily Bronte *
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 - BOOKRING
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 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 - 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 BOOKRING
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. Noughts and crosses - Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs of a geisha - Arthur Goldman
63. A tale of two cities - Charles Dickens 
64. The thorn birds - Colleen McCullough
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
71. Perfume - Patrick Suskind 
72. The ragged trousered philanthropists - Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda - Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's diary - Helen Fielding (borrowed from Carole)
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* 1001 library book
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 - library book
98. Girls in love - Jacqueline Wilson
99. The princess diaries - Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie

The ones that almost made it: 101 - 200 

* = books I own

101. Three men in a boat - Jerome K. Jerome*
102. Small gods - Terry Pratchett
103. The beach - Alex Garland
104. Dracula - Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc - Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick papers - Charles Dickens 
107. Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
108. The wasp factory - Iain Banks
109. The day of the jackal - Frederick Forsyth
110. The illustrated mum - Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude the obscure - Thomas Hardy 
112. The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ - Sue Townsend
113. The cruel sea - Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les miserables - Victor Hugo*
115. The mayor of Castorbridge - Thomas Hardy 
116. The dare game - Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad girls - Jacqueline Wilson
118. The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 
119. Shogun - James Clavell
120. The day of the triffids - John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose - Jacqueline Wilson 
122. Vanity fair - William Makepeace Thackeray *
123. The Forsythe saga - John Galsworthy *
124. House of leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The poisonwood bible - Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper man - Terry pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs and full-frontal snogging - Louise Rennison
128. The hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle 
129. Possession - A. S. Byatt
130. The master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov Bookring
131. The handmaid's tale - Margaret Atwood
132. Danny the champion of the world - Roald Dahl 
133. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
134. George's marvellous medicine - Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd sisters - Terry Pratchett
136. The colour purple - Alice Walker
137. Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
138. The thirty-nine steps - John Buchan 
139. Girls in tears - Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers - Jacqueline Wilson
141. All quiet on the western front - Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind the scenes at the museum - Kate Atkinson
143. High fidelity - Nick Hornby
144. It - Stephen King
145. James and the giant peach - Roald Dahl 
146. The green mile - Stephen King
147. Papillon - Henri Charriere
148. Men at arms - Terry Pratchett
149. Master and commander - Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton key - Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul music - Terry Pratchett
152. Thief of time - Terry Pratchett
153. The fifth elephant - Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement - Ian McEwan - Bookray
155. Secrets - Jacqueline Wilson
156. The silver sword - Ian Serraillier
157. One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey
158. Heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad
159. Kim - Rudyard Kipling 
160. Cross stitch - Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick - Herman Melville 
162. River god - Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The shipping news - Annie Proulx *
165. The world according to Garp - John Irving
166. Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls out late - Jacqueline Wilson
168. The far pavilions - M. M. Kaye
169. The witches - Roald Dahl 
170. Charlotte's web - E. B. White
171. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
172. They used to play on grass - Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemmingway 
174. The name of the rose - Umberto Eco*
175. Sophie's world - Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin baby - Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl
178. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov*
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
180. The little prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
181. The suitcase kid - Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens *
183. The power of one - Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner - George Eliot 
185. American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
186. The diary of a nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps - R. L. Stine
189. Heidi - Johanna Spyri
190. Sons and lovers - D. H. Lawrence 
191. The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera
192. Man and boy - Tony Parsons
193. The truth - Terry Pratchett
194. The war of the worlds - H. G. Wells*
195. The horse whisperer - Nicholas Evans
196. A fine balance - Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches abroad - Terry Pratchett
198. The once and future king - T. H. White
199. The very hungry caterpillar - Eric Carle
200. Flowers in the attic - Virginia Andrews

Comments

[Carole]

That's a bostin' list :)

You can mark God of small things (85) as coming to you. It's being sent to me, so I'll pass it your way when I've read it.