Books I've Read of the "BBC Big Read" Top 100 books (United Kingdom)

Submitted by alyxstarr on Wed, 02/22/2006 - 12:16
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  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 Milne
  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
  9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS 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 – 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 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 – 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 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 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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Numbered the ones I've read, bolded the ones I own. Read almost half of them, yay! (Many of the bolded/unread ones are ones I've started -- The Stand, Anna Karenina, Ulysses, On the Road -- and will go back to someday. Really.)

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"BBC Big Read" Top 100 books (United Kingdom)