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Finally finished Les Miserables and read

The Old Man and the Sea
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest
Far from the Madding Crowd
Sons and Lovers
A Fine Balance

Read The Forsythe Saga finally. On to Les Miserables – another short one!!

House of Leaves
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Girls Out Late
Girls in Tears

Virginia Andrews – Flowers in the Attic
Frederick Forsyth – The Day of the Jackal
Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker
Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible
Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
Ian Serraillier – The Silver Sword
R L Stevenson – Treasure Island
H G Wells – The War of the Worlds
Jacqueline Wilson – Girls in Love

70 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
71 Perfume – Patrick Suskind
83 Holes – Louis Sacher
88 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
117 Bad Girls – Jacqueline Wilson
131 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
136 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
138 The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
141 All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remargue

The Thorn Birds
Heidi
Kim
On the Road
A Town Like Alice

The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Master and Margarita
Soul Music
The Name of the Rose
Lorna Doone

It’s really good to know that there are other people out there also reading this list. So far I’ve read ….

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
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
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
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
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
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
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
103 The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
134. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle

If anyone has read 173 would love to know where you got a copy from. I can get hold of pretty much all I’ve got left from my local library but that one is proving elusive.