My first Love – Books!

This is the top 100 books to read list from BBC. – 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

1. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

2. 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

1. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

2. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

3. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis

4. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

5. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

1. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

1. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

2. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

3. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

4. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres

5. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

6. 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

1. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

2. Middlemarch, George Eliot

3. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving

4. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck

5. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

6. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson

7. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

8. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett

34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

1. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

2. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute

3. Persuasion, Jane Austen

4. Dune, Frank Herbert

40. Emma, Jane Austen

1. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery

2. Watership Down, Richard Adams

43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

1. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

2. Animal Farm, George Orwell

3. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

4. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

5. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian

6. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

7. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

8. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck

9. The Stand, Stephen King

54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

1. The BFG, Roald Dahl

2. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome

3. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell

4. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

5. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

6. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman

62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

1. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough

2. Mort, Terry Pratchett

3. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton

4. The Magus, John Fowles

5. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

6. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

7. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding

8. Perfume, Patrick Süskind

9. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell

10. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

11. Matilda, Roald Dahl

75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding

1. The Secret History, Donna Tartt

2. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins

3. Ulysses, James Joyce

4. Bleak House, Charles Dickens

5. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson

6. The Twits, Roald Dahl

7. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith

8. Holes, Louis Sachar

9. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

1. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson

2. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

3. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

4. Magician, Raymond E Feist

5. On The Road, Jack Kerouac

91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo

1. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel

2. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett

3. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

4. Katherine, Anya Seton

96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer

1. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez

2. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson

99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie The ones in bold are those I have read and italics are on a must read list… 16 / 100 read is a bad score… 🙁