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Eimear 8 years ago


lennyburnham 4 months ago


NutmeggleUntitled

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (read)3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (read)
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling (read)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (read)*
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis (read)
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (read)
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 (read)
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (read)*
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 (read)

23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling (read)

24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling (read)
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 (read)
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 (read)
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 (read)
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 (read)
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 (read)
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 (read)
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (read)
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer (read)
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 (read)
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (read)
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 (read)
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 (read)81. The Twits, Roald Dahl (read)
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar (read)
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 (read)
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 (read)99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot (read)
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie

(list from http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100_2.shtml) 15 months ago


Nutmeggle 15 months ago


EimearStill a long way to go and down to some less well known books

1. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
3.The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
4. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
5. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
6. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
7. Tess of the D’aubervilles, thomas Hardy
8. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
9. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett – Just finished this one, good rip-roaring read!
10. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
11. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute – Nearlly finished this one, thanks Liz for the loan. Had a pre-concienved notion of what this was going to be like, but as often happens, turned out completely differently. Apart from Jean’s annoying perfection, really enjoying this!
12. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
13. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
14. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
15. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
16. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
17. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
18. The Stand, Stephen King
19 Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
20. The BFG, Roald Dahl
21. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
22. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
23. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
24. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
25. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
26. The Magus, John Fowles
27. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
28. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
29. Matilda, Roald Dahl
30. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
31. Ulysses, James Joyce
32. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
33. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
34. The Twits, Roald Dahl
35. Holes, Louis Sachar
36. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
37. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
38. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
39. Magician, Raymond E Feist
40. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
41. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
42. Katherine, Anya Seton
43. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
44. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
45. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 21 months ago


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