1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 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 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 and Neil Gaiman ( This is funny) 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 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 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 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 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 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Hmmm...all of these Top 100 Books lists are making me feel the need to read. So many good ideas...so many books that I've put off reading for too long.
23 here. This one has least amount of titles i recognized though. Other lists I always recognized most if not all of them, even if I hadn't read them.
some of my fave books there. crikey... i gotta count again??? <i'll be back when i've got the time, lol>
BTM's list 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Ms Smillas Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Don Quixote; Cervantes 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Gulliver’s Travels; Jonathon Swift 13. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Mark Twain 14. The Scarlet Letter; Nathaniel Hawthorne 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller; Italo Calvino 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting; Milan Kundera 24. The Summer Book ; Tove Jansson 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Dreamers; Knut Hamsung 28. Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. WhERE the Wild Things are; Maurice Sendak 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 33. Out Stealing Horses: Petterson, Per 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. Vermilion Sands; JG Ballard 38. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Wise Children Angela Carter 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. In Search of Lost Time; Marcel Proust 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. The Trial; Franz Kafka 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 Day Lasts a Thousand Years; Chingiz Aitmatov 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Bottersnikes and Gumbles; S.A. Wakefield 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 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 and Neil Gaiman ( This is funny) 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 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. The Adventures of Professor Branstawm; Norman Hunter 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 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 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Winnie The Pooh; 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. Pride aand Prejudice and Zombies 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
I think I counted 40 on BBC's list 33 on BTM's list--Lol on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies sandwiched in between Love in a Time of Cholera and Midnight's Children!
35 on the BBC list. As this is the third of the book list threads I looked at, care to state the rationale for a book's inclusion on the BBC list, bordertangoman?
THAT's easy; it was in response to Radio 4 listeners* recommendations (*Radio 4 listeners are an intellectual and free thinking elite, to which I belong,) Hurrah for Radio 4 - it's not ashamed to be brainy David Sexton 08.02.08 The controller of Radio 4 has spoken. Told by one of his own presenters, Jane Garvey, that there is "a massively middle-class bent to every programme on Radio 4", Mark Damazer came as close as any BBC head ever can these days to positively embracing the description. The way he put it was this: "What has happened over the past 30 years is that the country has become infinitely more middle class than it used to be. Radio 4 is likely to hit that group a good deal more than any other group." What this careful statement means is that the middle-class virtues - you know, respecting education, valuing civility, taking responsibility for one's own conduct, cherishing independence while rejoicing in family and community, aspiring to improvement without assuming any inherent superiority, curiosity, intelligence, hard work, decency, that sort of thing - are naturally those of Radio 4 listeners too. And that there need be no embarrassment about admitting it. If that's a bent, it's a great one to have. Damazer has expressed concerns about some other aspects of the Radio 4 listeners' profile, dabbling in that mystical BBC jargon to talk of "striving for a wider range of colours, tones and textures". What that means is that he's a bit worried that the listeners come so predominantly from southern England and are so remarkably old, with an average age of 55. You could quite plausibly say that these characteristics correlate naturally with intelligence too - but that's too much to hope. Still, here is a rare bird: a BBC executive concentrating on excellence, not demographics. When he took over the network, Damazer said that his chief concern was that Radio 4 should be "open to anybody who's interested in intelligent speech" - and that's the way he has run it. There are plenty of such people. The Lord's final offer to Abraham was to spare the city of Sodom if it contained just 10 righteous men. Radio 4 reaches 9.4 million each week; individual programmes can have audiences of more than two million. And there is nothing like it in broadcasting. Those who work in Radio 4 do it not to become famous or rich but because they believe in its distinction. The people who listen have chosen not to allow images to dominate but to value language and speech. Our television is now an absurdly degraded mêlée of soaps, reality tussles, celebrity chefs and makeover shows. There is no consistent pursuit of anything better than audience figures. Radio 4 has plenty of faults - let's not mention Fi Glover's Saturday Live, the dreadful Woman's Hour dramas - but the central ethic remains unyielding. To be intelligent."
46 and a half (started reading Artemis Fowl to son but did not enjoy it, so he completed the book himself)
III BBC LIST :: 79 read, many of those multilpe times. BTM's list :: 61 read. Thank you for the lists. Now I have a few more good books to read.
