BBC's Top 150 Reads

These are all of the books on the BBC Top 150 Read's list--if you feel like buying me any of these books, feel free :)

  1. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
  2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (own it)
  3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling (own it)
  6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (maybe own it)
  7. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
  8. 1984 by George Orwell (own it)
  9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis (own it)
  10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  11. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  13. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
  14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  15. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  16. The wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (own it)
  18. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
  20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (own it)--currently reading.
  21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling (own it)
  23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling (own it)
  24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling (own it)
  25. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
  26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  27. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  28. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (own it)
  30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  31. The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
  32. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  33. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  34. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (own it)
  35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  36. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  37. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
  38. Persuasion by Jane Austen
  39. Dune by Frank Herbert
  40. Emma by Jane Austen
  41. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
  42. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  43. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
  44. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  45. Brieshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  46. Animal Farm by Geroge Orwell
  47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  48. Far From the madding Crowd by Thomas Harding
  49. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
  50. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
  51. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  52. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  53. The Stand by Stephen King
  54. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  55. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
  56. The BFG by Roald Dahl
  57. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
  58. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  59. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
  60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  61. Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
  62. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  63. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (own it)
  64. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough
  65. Mort by Terry Pratchett
  66. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
  67. The Magus by John Fowles
  68. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  69. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
  70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  71. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
  72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
  73. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
  74. Matilda by Roald Dahl
  75. Bridget Jone's Diary by Helen Fielding
  76. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  77. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  78. Ulysses by James Joyce
  79. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  80. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
  81. The Twits by Roald Dahl
  82. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  83. Holes by Louis Sachar
  84. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
  85. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  86. Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
  87. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  88. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
  89. magician by Raymond E Feist
  90. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  91. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
  92. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel
  93. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
  94. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  95. Katherine by Anya Seton
  96. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
  97. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  98. Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson
  99. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
  100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  101. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome 
  102. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
  103. The Beach by Alex Garland
  104. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  105. Point Blane by Anthony Horowitz
  106. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 
  107. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
  108. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
  109. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
  110. The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson
  111. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  112. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend 
  113. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat 
  114. Les Miserables by Victory Hugo
  115. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
  116. The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson
  117. Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson
  118. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  119. Shogun by James Clavell
  120. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 
  121. Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson
  122. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  123. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
  124. House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski 
  125. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 
  126. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
  127. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison 
  128. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
  129. Possession by A S Byatt
  130. The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  131. The Handmaid's Tale by margaret Atwood
  132. Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl 
  133. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  134. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl 
  135. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
  136. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  137. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
  138. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 
  139. Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson
  140. Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson
  141. All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 
  142. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
  143. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 
  144. It by Stephen King
  145. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 
  146. The Green Mile by Stephen King
  147. Papillon by Henri Charriere 
  148. Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett
  149. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian 
  150. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz 

2 comments:

  1. I'm totally doing this. My goal was to read 2 books a month, but I didn't really consult a list. Hello, how was I going to find really good books? I'm glad you thought all this through :)

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    1. Oh my goodness. You may find this totally lame but we can do a "blog book club" :) talk about the books and stuff--no one will attempt the list with me. If it is too lame, let me know, haha.

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