Janet Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 For those of us who like lists, the TES have done a poll of Teachers' favourite reads - and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen came out top of the list! Below is the list in full. Not too many surprises in the list! TEACHERS’ TOP 100 BOOKS 1. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 2. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 3. Harry Potter (series) J.K. Rowling 4. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte 5. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte 6. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 7. The Lord of the Rings (series) J.R.R. Tolkien 8. The Book Thief Markus Zusak 9. The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien 10. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 11. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 12. The Hunger Games (series) Suzanne Collins 13. The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger 14. The Chronicles of Narnia (series) C.S. Lewis 15. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 16. Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 17. His Dark Materials (series) Philip Pullman 18. The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler 19. The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 20. Life of Pi Yann Martel 21. Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 22. Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 23. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon 24. Lord of the Flies William Golding 25. Matilda Roald Dahl 26. Catch-22 Joseph Heller 27. Millennium (series) Stieg Larsson 28. Animal Farm George Orwell 29. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood 30. Persuasion Jane Austen 31. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 32. Kensuke’s Kingdom Michael Morpurgo 33. Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian 34. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl 36. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne 37. Little Women Louisa May Alcott 38. One Day David Nicholls 39. We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 40. The Twits Roald Dahl 41. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel 42. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini 43. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 44. Frankenstein Mary Shelley 45. Great Expectations Charles Dickens 46. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernieres 47. George’s Marvellous Medicine Roald Dahl 48. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 49. Room Emma Donoghue 50. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 51. Atonement Ian McEwan 52. Emma Jane Austen 53. Middlemarch George Eliot 54. The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon 55. The Color Purple Alice Walker 56. The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle 57. Brave New World Aldous Huxley 58. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 59. The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 60. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 61. Charlotte’s Web E.B. White 62. Dracula Bram Stoker 63. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury 64. A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving 65. The Secret History Donna Tartt 66. The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery 67. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 68. The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 69. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 70. Skellig David Almond 71. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 72. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 73. Game of Thrones (series) George R.R. Martin 74. David Copperfield Charles Dickens 75. Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 76. Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 77. Twilight (series) Stephenie Meyer 78. Beloved Toni Morrison 79. The Help Kathryn Stockett 80. Sherlock Holmes (series) Arthur Conan Doyle 81. Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 82. Moneyball Michael Lewis 83. My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell 84. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 85. On the Road Jack Kerouac 86. Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 87. Wild Swans Jung Chang 88. Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery 89. Les Miserables Victor Hugo 90. Room on the Broom Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler 91. Private Peaceful Michael Morpurgo 92. Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman 93. Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee 94. Danny the Champion of the World Roald Dahl 95. Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell 96. The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton 97. The Witches Roald Dahl 98. The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 99. Holes Louis Sachar 100. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 We do love a good list here, don't we! Not a bad one this, and I've read 46 on there, and enjoyed most of them too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 I've read 53 of them & have quite a few sitting on my shelves waiting to be read like The God Of Small Things,Wild Swans, Half Of A Yellow Sun, Never Let Me Go, Beloved, A Prayer For Owen Meany & The Colour Purple. Not surprised to see so many Roald Dahl books on the list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 This is a nice list, there are some I've read, some that are on my TBR and some I haven't heard of or that I'm not interested in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ummlilia Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 I've read 64...I doubt I'll get around to reading the recent YA stuff (eg The Hunger Games..) not my scene.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 I've read 43⅓ of them and have 17 to read, either on my TR pile or my Kindle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Mabel Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 I've read 34 and have over half of the rest sitting on my shelves waiting for me to find the time to read them. Intentions are great. Time is less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 I've read 20 of them and have another 17 on my TBR. I really think i might add this to my every growing reading lists! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 That's quite a comprehensive list with books from all genres to all age groups. I like to see variety like that in lists, rather than the same books trotted out over and over. Of those I've read 41, and there's quite a few on there that I have on my TBR pile too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 I love that The Very Hungry Caterpillar is on there, I read that book SO many times at primary school, it had my favourite illustrations! It's a good list, it has a lot of books I've either read or want to read, and I'll definitely have a look at the ones I haven't heard of so thanks Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 43. Well, depending on if I count the Sherlock Holmes (series) which I've not read in its entirety, but have read some of.. I've own quite a few more on the list, and I expect in the next few years that I'll be checking off a lot more of the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risingdawn Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 I have read 23 1/3 of those books. Some of them are quite good novels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 I've read 64...I doubt I'll get around to reading the recent YA stuff (eg The Hunger Games..) not my scene.. Remember YA has a massive range, with lots of subgenres - don't write them all off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggle not Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Good list. There are a number of books though that I think should be on the list such as "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemmingway and "East of Eden: by John Steinbeck. Also noticeably absent is any book by Cormac McCarthy. Arguably, the best writer in recent times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 I've read 57 and have most of the rest of them on my TBR pile. I would be tempted to add this as a reading challenge because I'm well on the way to completing it anyway, except that I have no intention of ever reading Twilight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ummlilia Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Remember YA has a massive range, with lots of subgenres - don't write them all off. I 'm not writing them off, just saying they don't float my boat, at least given what I have read so far. (Am not 'anti' ; I'm currently reading Among Others by Jo Walton which could loosely be described as Fantasy/YA ,which I was lucky enough to win in a blog giveaway) 'Boomer Lit' is more my speed..., I hadn't heard of it until recently. (http://www.indiesunlimited.com/2012/12/18/are-you-ready-for-boomer-lit/. ) I'm a 'baby boomer' just (born 1964) and am now ready, not for coming -of- age, but for coming- of- the -change....lol.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chryssie Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 I have read 27 of them, but most of them are on my TBR pile! If I ever get around to reading them is a different question.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Good list, but I'm surprised and disappointed that teachers would vote the Twilight series onto the list of top 100 books! (But then, I cannot understand why ANYONE likes those books - I found them the worst load of repetitive and predictable tripe.) Out of the list given, I've read... 55 in their entirety 1 book of 1 series mentioned (Millennium - I won't bother with the rest because I hated it so much!) 2 series mentioned that i have almost completed (Sherlock and Game of Thrones) A further 9 are on Mount TBR Sad to see no Pratchett in there - I would have put his entire Discworld series on the list in place of the Twilight books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 (edited) I've only read 13 of the books on the list ,3,6,7,9,12,14,17,24,28,35,48,73,80. 56 if you want to be picky Edited April 8, 2013 by dex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 I've read 26 of them and there are maybe a dozen I'd like to read but there are too many contemporary books I'd like to read to try many of the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 I've actually read 9 our of the top 10 - the only one I haven't read is The Hobbit and that's because I didn't enjoy the LotR trilogy that much, and OH said if I didn't like them, then definitely not worth bothering with the prequel! I'm also surprised there are very few that I would refuse to read on there - usually with these lists, at least 20% of the books are ones I have no inclination to read at all, and wouldn't contemplate reading, it's much lower than that with this list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 I 'm not writing them off, just saying they don't float my boat, at least given what I have read so far. (Am not 'anti' ; I'm currently reading Among Others by Jo Walton which could loosely be described as Fantasy/YA ,which I was lucky enough to win in a blog giveaway) 'Boomer Lit' is more my speed..., I hadn't heard of it until recently. (http://www.indiesunlimited.com/2012/12/18/are-you-ready-for-boomer-lit/. ) I'm a 'baby boomer' just (born 1964) and am now ready, not for coming -of- age, but for coming- of- the -change....lol.. Hmm.. I'm not sure I'd class Among Others as YA (I appreciate you said 'loosely' ). I also don't class The Hunger Games as strictly YA, and most people love it. I've actually read 9 our of the top 10 - the only one I haven't read is The Hobbit and that's because I didn't enjoy the LotR trilogy that much, and OH said if I didn't like them, then definitely not worth bothering with the prequel! I'm also surprised there are very few that I would refuse to read on there - usually with these lists, at least 20% of the books are ones I have no inclination to read at all, and wouldn't contemplate reading, it's much lower than that with this list. It probably depends on why you didn't like LotR - I gave up with that half way through the middle book, and yet I love The Hobbit. It's much more to the point, and I believe he wrote it for a younger audience? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Must say that this was a very predictable list! None of the titles surprised me at all. The only small surprise was that the Twlilght series only made #77 on the list. Well, one other thing did come to mind. There were no autobiographies on the list, or biographies that I can recall. I would not have been surprised if Anne Frank's diary had been on the list. Or A boy called "it". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 I agree with Michelle. The Hobbit is much more to the point and enjoyable. I would highly recommend it over The Lord of the Rings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 I agree with Michelle. The Hobbit is much more to the point and enjoyable. I would highly recommend it over The Lord of the Rings. Interesting - I've never tried The Hobbit because I didn't particularly get on with The Lord of the Rings although I did finish it! It's fairly comforting that I did find the films worse though, which is usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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