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Wind in the Willows…
How to read all the books on the BBC Big Read Top 100
It made me
Proud 
"A fulfilling quest for a good read, without the lottery of picking a book judged on it's cover!"
How I did it: Some of the books were a bit of a slog but most of them were a pleasure to read, with a few hidden gems. By persevering I was rewarded with interesting stories, facts and quotes; even in what I deemed the most boring of books!
Lessons & tips: Pre-order your books in the library...I got a bit stuck at one point by not having any books to read and was forced to harrass the local librarian as to why my books weren't there yet!
Resources: Village library, city library and good friends bookshelves!
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Soooo loving the daily lit website!
huge help!
4 weeks ago
I’ve just discovered an amazing website called Daily Lit – they email you books in installments – you choose the length – every day at a time of your choosing. And they have quite a few of these books for free! I love the internet….
what I have left (it's getting confusing!)
4 weeks ago
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
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
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
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
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
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
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
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
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
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I’ll soon finish Bleak House, Charles Dickens. It not best of his novels which I have read. But it is rather interesting.
nastro azzurro time to wake up, u only get one life, so live it
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1 month ago
love in the time of cholera in a charity shop and bought it. one to read and start knocking off this list.
dontcha jsut love charity shops for books!!!!!!
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I have counted, that for the life I had read already these books:
1.The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
3.To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
4.Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
5.Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
6.The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
7.Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
8.The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
9.War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
10.Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
11.Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
12.Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
13.Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
14.The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
15.Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
16.Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
17.Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
18.The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
19.The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
20.Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
21.Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
22.Animal Farm, George Orwell
23.A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
24.Perfume, Patrick Süskind
25.The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
