Sunday, December 12, 2010

Top 100 Books

BBC published top 100 books, based on favourite books nominated by readers. How many books have you read? The list below in numerical order:


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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