perfectcircle in Newcastle is doing 6 things including…

read all 200 books in the BBC's Big Read

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perfectcircle has written 11 entries about this goal

Long time since I last updated. Nearly there! 7 months ago

2 left to get hold of, 10 to read, 188 read.

1984 – George Orwell READ
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens READ
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving READ
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth READ
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens READ
A Town Called Alice – Nevil Shute READ
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll READ
Animal Farm – George Orwell READ
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy READ
Anne of Green Gables- LM Montgomery READ
Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer READ
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulkes READ
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell READ
Bleak House – Charles Dickens READ
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley READ
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh READ
Bridget Jones’s Diary- Helen Fielding READ
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres READ
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller READ
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl READ
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons READ
Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky READ
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens READ
Double Act – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Dune Frank – Herbert READ
Emma – Jane Austen READ
Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy READ
Girls in Love – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell READ
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman READ
Goodnight, Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian READ
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake TBR
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens READ
Guards! Guards! – Terry Pratchett READ
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets – JK Rowling READ
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling READ
Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling READ
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling READ
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman READ
Holes – Louis Sachar READ
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith READ
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte READ
Kane and Abel – Jeffrey Archer READ
Katherine – Anya Seton READ
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott READ
Lord of the Flies – William Golding READ
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez READ
Magician – Raymond E Feist READ
Matilda – Roald Dahl READ
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden READ
Middlemarch – George Eliot READ
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie READ
Mort – Terry Pratchett READ
Night Watch – Terry Pratchett TBR
Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman READ
Of Mice & Men – John Steinbeck READ
On the Road – Jack Kerouac READ
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez READ
Perfume – Patrick Suskind READ
Persuasion – Jane Austen READ
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen READ
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier READ
Swallows & Amazons – Arthur Ransome READ
Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy READ
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho READ
The BFG – Roald Dahl READ
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger READ
The Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M Auel READ
The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett READ
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas READ
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy READ
The Godfather – Mario Puzo READ
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck READ
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald READ
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams READ
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien READ
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe – CS Lewis READ
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien READ
The Magic Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton READ
The Magus – John Fowles READ
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett READ
The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot READ
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell READ
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett READ
The Secret History – Donna Tartt READ
The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher READ
The Stand – Stephen King READ
The Story of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson READ
The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCollough READ
The Twits – Roald Dahl READ
The Wind in the willows – Kenneth Grahame READ
The Woman in White – William Wilkie Collins READ
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee READ
Treasure Island – Louis Stevenson READ
Ulysses – James Joyce
Vicky Angel – Jacqueline Wilson READ
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy TBR
Watership Down – Richard Adams READ
Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne READ
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte READ
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry READ
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque READ
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis READ
Angus, Thongs & Full-Frontal Snogging – L Rennison READ
Atonement – Ian McEwan READ
Bad Girls – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson READ
Charlotte’s Web – E B White READ
Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon READ
Danny, The Champion of the World – Roald Dahl READ
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith READ
Dracula – Bram Stoker READ
Dustbin Baby – Jacqueline Wilson READ
East of Eden – John Steinbeck READ
Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl READ
Flowers in the Attic – Virginia Andrews READ
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley READ
George’s Marvellous Medicine – Roald Dahl READ
Girls Out Late – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Girls in Tears – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Goosebumps – R L Stine READ
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad READ
Heidi – Johanna Spyri READ
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby READ
Hogfather – Terry Pratchett READ
House of Leaves – Mark Z Danielewski READ
It – Stephen King READ
James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl READ
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull – Richard Bach READ
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy READ
Kim – Rudyard Kipling READ
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo READ
Lola Rose – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov READ
Lorna Doone – RD Blackmore READ
Man & Boy – Tony Parsons READ
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian READ
Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett READ
Moby Dick – Herman Melville READ
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens READ
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey READ
Papillon – Henri Charriere READ
Point Blanc – Anthony Horowitz READ
Possession – A S Byatt READ
Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett READ
River God – Wilbur Smith READ
Secrets – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Shogun – James Clavell READ
Silas Marner – George Eliot READ
Skeleton Key – Anthony Horowitz READ
Sleepovers – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Small Gods – Terry Pratchett READ
Sons & Lovers – D H Lawrence READ
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder READ
Soul Music – Terry Pratchett TBR
Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz READ
Sunset Song – Lewis Grassic Gibbon READ
The Beach – Alex Garland READ
The Color Purple – Alice Walker READ
The Cruel Sea – Nicholas Monsarrat READ
The Dare Game – Jacqueline Wilson READ
The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth READ
The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham READ
The Far Pavilions – M M Kaye READ
The Fifth Elephant – Terry Pratchett TBR
The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy TBR
The Green Mile – Stephen King READ
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood READ
The Horse Whisperer -Nicholas Evans READ
The Hounds of the Baskervilles -Arthur Conan Doyle READ
The Illustrated Mum – Jacqueline Wilson READ
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery READ
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov READ
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy READ
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco READ
The Old Man & the Sea – Ernest Hemingway READ
The Once & Future King – T H White READ
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens TBR
The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde READ
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver READ
The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay READ
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole – Sue Townsend READ
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx READ
The Silver Sword – Ian Serraillier READ
The Suitcase Kid – Jacqueline Wilson READ
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan READ
The Truth – Terry Pratchett TBR
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera READ
The Very Hungry Catapillar – Eric Carle READ
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks READ
The Witches – Roald Dahl READ
The World According to Garp – John Irving READ
They Used to Play On Grass – T Venables & G Williams
Thief of Time – Terry Pratchett TBR
Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K Jerome READ
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh READ
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray TBR
War of the Worlds – H G Wells READ
Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett READ
Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett READ



120 now read 3 years ago

I’ve now completed 120 books and have 43 sitting waiting to be read, which leaves me with only 37 still to get hold of. Hopefully I can complete this in the next year.

As I haven’t updated for so long, this is the full list of which I’ve read, which are waiting to be read and which I still don’t have.

1984 – George Orwell READ
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens READ
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving READ
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth READ
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens READ
A Town Called Alice – Nevil Shute
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll READ
Animal Farm – George Orwell READ
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy TBR
Anne of Green Gables- LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer READ
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulkes READ
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell READ
Bleak House – Charles Dickens TBR
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley READ
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh READ
Bridget Jones’s Diary- Helen Fielding READ
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres READ
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller READ
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl READ
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons READ
Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky TBR
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens TBR
Double Act – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Dune Frank – Herbert READ
Emma – Jane Austen READ
Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy READ
Girls in Love – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell READ
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman READ
Goodnight, Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian READ
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens TBR
Guards! Guards! – Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets – JK Rowling READ
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling READ
Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling READ
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling READ
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman TBR
Holes – Louis Sachar TBR
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith READ
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte READ
Kane and Abel – Jeffrey Archer
Katherine – Anya Seton TBR
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott READ
Lord of the Flies – William Golding READ
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez READ
Magician – Raymond E Feist READ
Matilda – Roald Dahl
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden READ
Middlemarch – George Eliot READ
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie TBR
Mort – Terry Pratchett
Night Watch – Terry Pratchett
Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman READ
Of Mice & Men – John Steinbeck TBR
On the Road – Jack Kerouac READ
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez TBR
Perfume – Patrick Suskind TBR
Persuasion – Jane Austen READ
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen READ
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier READ
Swallows & Amazons – Arthur Ransome
Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy READ
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho READ
The BFG – Roald Dahl READ
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger READ
The Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M Auel READ
The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas TBR
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy READ
The Godfather – Mario Puzo TBR
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck READ
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald READ
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams TBR
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien READ
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe – CS Lewis READ
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien READ
The Magic Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton READ
The Magus – John Fowles TBR
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot READ
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell TBR
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett READ
The Secret History – Donna Tartt READ
The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher READ
The Stand – Stephen King READ
The Story of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson READ
The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCollough TBR
The Twits – Roald Dahl READ
The Wind in the willows – Kenneth Grahame READ
The Woman in White – William Wilkie Collins READ
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee READ
Treasure Island – Louis Stevenson READ
Ulysses – James Joyce
Vicky Angel – Jacqueline Wilson READ
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy TBR
Watership Down – Richard Adams TBR
Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne READ
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte READ

A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry TBR
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque READ
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis TBR
Angus, Thongs & Full-Frontal Snogging – L Rennison READ
Atonement – Ian McEwan READ
Bad Girls – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson TBR
Charlotte’s Web – E B White READ
Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon
Danny, The Champion of the World – Roald Dahl
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith READ
Dracula – Bram Stoker READ
Dustbin Baby – Jacqueline Wilson READ
East of Eden – John Steinbeck READ
Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl TBR
Flowers in the Attic – Virginia Andrews TBR
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley READ
George’s Marvellous Medicine – Roald Dahl READ
Girls Out Late – Jacqueline Wilson
Girls in Tears – Jacqueline Wilson
Goosebumps – R L Stine
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad READ
Heidi – Johanna Spyri READ
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby READ
Hogfather – Terry Pratchett READ
House of Leaves – Mark Z Danielewski READ
It – Stephen King READ
James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl READ
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull – Richard Bach READ
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy TBR
Kim – Rudyard Kipling READ
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Lola Rose – Jacqueline Wilson
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov READ
Lorna Doone – RD Blackmore TBR
Man & Boy – Tony Parsons READ
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian TBR
Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett TBR
Moby Dick – Herman Melville TBR
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens TBR
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey TBR
Papillon – Henri Charriere READ
Point Blanc – Anthony Horowitz
Possession – A S Byatt READ
Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett READ
River God – Wilbur Smith
Secrets – Jacqueline Wilson
Shogun – James Clavell TBR
Silas Marner – George Eliot TBR
Skeleton Key – Anthony Horowitz
Sleepovers – Jacqueline Wilson
Small Gods – Terry Pratchett READ
Sons & Lovers – D H Lawrence TBR
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder READ
Soul Music – Terry Pratchett TBR
Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz READ
Sunset Song – Lewis Grassic Gibbon TBR
The Beach – Alex Garland READ
The Color Purple – Alice Walker READ
The Cruel Sea – Nicholas Monsarrat
The Dare Game – Jacqueline Wilson
The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth
The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham READ
The Far Pavilions – M M Kaye
The Fifth Elephant – Terry Pratchett TBR
The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
The Green Mile – Stephen King READ
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood READ
The Horse Whisperer -Nicholas Evans READ
The Hounds of the Baskervilles -Arthur Conan Doyle
The Illustrated Mum – Jacqueline Wilson READ
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov READ
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy READ
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco TBR
The Old Man & the Sea – Ernest Hemingway READ
The Once & Future King – T H White READ
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde READ
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver READ
The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay TBR
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole – Sue Townsend READ
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx READ
The Silver Sword – Ian Serraillier
The Suitcase Kid – Jacqueline Wilson READ
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan READ
The Truth – Terry Pratchett
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
The Very Hungry Catapillar – Eric Carle READ
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
The Witches – Roald Dahl READ
The World According to Garp – John Irving TBR
They Used to Play On Grass – T Venables & G Williams
Thief of Time – Terry Pratchett TBR
Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K Jerome READ
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh READ
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray TBR
War of the Worlds – H G Wells READ
Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett READ
Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett READ



91 4 years ago

Recently finished John Buchan’s The 39 steps.

And I’ve added the following to my pile of tbr:
Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K Jerome
The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay
Perfume – Patrick Suskind
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett
Possession – A S Byatt
Sons & Lovers – D H Lawrence

Which now leaves 46 to be read and 63 to track down.

I will be using these for my 2006 challenge – to have read at least 150 books of the 200 by the end of 2006. Should be easy enough



update again 4 years ago

I’ve read one more since the last update – A tale of two cities (Dickens) taking me to 90/200. I’ve also got hold of ten more books, thanks to the generosity of bookcrossers worldwide, meaning I only need to find another 71 and I have 39 waiting to be read now. The ones I got are:

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
Holes – Louis Sachar
The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull – Richard Bach
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
The Old Man & the Sea – Ernest Hemingway



Update 4 years ago

As I haven’t updated for a while, it was easier to copy and paste the lists I have elsewhere.

These are the ones I’ve read: (89)

1984 – George Orwell
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulkes
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
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
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Dune – Frank Herbert
Emma – Jane Austen
Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Goodnight, Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets – JK Rowling
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Magician – Raymond E Feist
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Middlemarch – George Eliot
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
The BFG – Roald Dahl
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
The Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M Auel
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
The Magic Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton
The Stand – Stephen King
The Twits – Roald Dahl
The Wind in the willows – Kenneth Grahame
The Woman in White – William Wilkie Collins
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Vicky Angel – Jacqueline Wilson
Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Angus, Thongs & Full-Frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison
Charlotte’s Web – E B White
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
George’s Marvellous Medicine – Roald Dahl
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Heidi – Johanna Spyri
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
Hogfather – Terry Pratchett
It – Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Man & Boy – Tony Parsons
Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett
Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
The Beach – Alex Garland
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
The Green Mile – Stephen King
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Horse Whisperer – Nicholas Evans
The Illustrated Mum – Jacqueline Wilson
The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4 – Sue Townsend
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
The Suitcase Kid – Jacqueline Wilson
The Very Hungry Catapillar – Eric Carle
The Witches – Roald Dahl
War of the Worlds – H G Wells
Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett
Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett

These are the ones sitting at home, waiting to be read: (30)

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Of Mice & Men – John Steinbeck
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl
Flowers in the Attic – Virginia Andrews
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Lorna Doone – RD Blackmore
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Soul Music – Terry Pratchett
The Fifth Elephant – Terry Pratchett
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Thief of Time – Terry Pratchett
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

And these are the ones I still have to get hold of: (81)

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
A Town Called Alice – Nevil Shute
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
Crime & Punishment Fyodor – Dostoyevsky
Double Act – Jacqueline Wilson
Girls in Love – Jacqueline Wilson
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Guards! Guards! – Terry Pratchett
Holes – Louis Sachar
Kane and Abel – Jeffrey Archer
Katherine – Anya Seton
Matilda – Roald Dahl
Mort – Terry Pratchett
Night Watch – Terry Pratchett
Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman
Perfume – Patrick Suskind
Swallows & Amazons – Arthur Ransome
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
The Magus – John Fowles
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher
The Story of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson
The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCollough
Treasure Island – Louis Stevenson
Ulysses – James Joyce
Watership Down – Richard Adams
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Bad Girls – Jacqueline Wilson
Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon
Danny, The Champion of the World – Roald Dahl
Dustbin Baby – Jacqueline Wilson
Girls Out Late – Jacqueline Wilson
Girls in Tears – Jacqueline Wilson
Goosebumps – R L Stine
House of Leaves – Mark Z Danielewski
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull – Richard Bach
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Lola Rose – Jacqueline Wilson
Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Papillon – Henri Charriere
Point Blanc – Anthony Horowitz
Possession – A S Byatt
River God – Wilbur Smith
Secrets- Jacqueline Wilson
Shogun – James Clavell
Skeleton Key – Anthony Horowitz
Sleepovers – Jacqueline Wilson
Sons & Lovers – D H Lawrence
Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz
Sunset Song – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Cruel Sea – Nicholas Monsarrat
The Dare Game – Jacqueline Wilson
The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth
The Far Pavilions – M M Kaye
The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
The Hounds of the Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
The Old Man & the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Once & Future King – T H White
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay
The Silver Sword – Ian Serraillier
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buvhan
The Truth – Terry Pratchett
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
They Used to Play On Grass – Terry Venables & Gordon Williams
Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K Jerome
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh



89 4 years ago

Finished Diary of A Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith over the weekend.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3173248



88 read 4 years ago

Finished The Shipping News (Annie Proulx) last night.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1991155



more read, more added 4 years ago

I’m now up to 87 read – finished Vicky Angel and The Illustrated Mum (both by Jacqueline Wilson) in the last couple of weeks. I’ve also added 2 more to the pile to be read – A tale of 2 cities (Dickens) and The Master and Margarita.



More added 4 years ago

Added some more to the tbr pile for this:

Vicky Angel – Jacqueline Wilson
The Illustrated Mum – Jacqueline Wilson



I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith 4 years ago

Finished this last night ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2924638 )

I also added to my pile of books in the list waiting to be read, now 21. I have the following around the house to read:

His Dark Materials – Phillip Pullman

Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

Of Mice & Men – John Steinbeck

100 years of solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Godfather – Mario Puzo

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

War & Peace – Tolstoy

American Psycho – Brett Easton Ellis

Behind the scenes at the museum – Kate Atkinson

East of Eden – John Steinbeck

Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl

Flowers in the Attic – Virginia Andrews

Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

Lorna Doone – RD Blackmore

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

Silas Marner – George Eliot

The 5th Elephant – Terry Pratchett

The name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

The Shipping News – Annie Proulx

The World According to Garp – John Irving

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

A secondary aim for the year would be to read at least ten of these.



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