Book Club Challenge
I found this list on another blog, Shutterboo, and thought it would be a great challenge. If you want to join me on this literary quest, check out the BBC’s List and get started. If you read one you find super awesome, let me know!
Another Top 100 List: Modern Library & Reader’s Choice Top 100 Books list here.
There is no deadline- this list will be here as long as my blog is alive.
Currently Reading:
Off the list: Game of Thrones
CURRENT SCORE: 15/100
| BBC # | Title | Author | Finished | Rating |
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings | JRR Tolkein | ||
| 2 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | ||
| 3 | His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | ||
| 4 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Jan 2011 | |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | JK Rowling | ||
| 6 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | read in HS | loved it! |
| 7 | Winnie the Pooh | AA Milne | ||
| 8 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | ||
| 9 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | CS Lewis | read as a kid | loved it! |
| 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 | Sep 2009 | loved it! |
| 18 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | read as a kid | loved it! |
| 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 Tolkein | read as a kid | liked it |
| 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 | Feb 2010 | liked it |
| 31 | The Story of Tracy Beaker | Jacqueline Wilson | ||
| 32 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garćia Márquez | ||
| 33 | The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | 2009 | loved it! |
| 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 | 2008 | loved it! |
| 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 | 1990′s | liked it |
| 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 | Jan 2010 | liked it |
| 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 & Neil Gaiman | Jul 2010 | loved it! |
| 69 | Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 70 | Lord Of The Flies | William Golding | read as a kid | liked it |
| 71 | Perfume | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 72 | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist | 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 Boyce | ||
| 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 | Jun 2010 | meh |
| 88 | Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | Aug 2010 | liked it |
| 89 | Magician | Raymond E Feis | ||
| 90 | On The Road | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 91 | The Godfather | Mario Puzo | ||
| 92 | The Clan Of The Cave Bear | Jean M. Auel | 1980′s/1990′s | loved it! |
| 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 Garćia Márquez | ||
| 98 | Girls In Love | Jacqueline Wilson | ||
| 99 | The Princess Diaries | Meg Cabot | ||
| 100 | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
shutterboo
August 13, 2009 at 16:31
Good luck with the list. I’ve just finished the first book in Chronicles of Narnia. And by golly is it good. :)