Music of the Day: Simon and Garfunkel
Ah, so the BBC list of 100 books. Not quite sure which books these are (greatest?), but have read 45 of them. And started another few. The starred are the ones i've read.
1984, George Orwell
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
*Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
*Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
*The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
*Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
*Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
*Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
*Catch 22, Joseph Heller
*The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
*Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
*The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
*The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert
*Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
*Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
*Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
*The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
*The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
*Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
*Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
*Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
*Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
*His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
*The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
*The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
*Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
*Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
*The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
*Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
*Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
*The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
*Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
*Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
*Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
*Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
*One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
*Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
*A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
*Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
*The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
*To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
*The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
*Watership Down, Richard Adams
*The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
*Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
I've been trying to decide what all these books have in common, and can't. So I've given up.
