Weevilcharley Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Ok, I have decided that because of my dismal total, that stands at only 8 or 9, I'm going to make this a on-going project to try get more of them read. I'm only 15, so it's a bit more difficult to get hold of the ones I want, etc.. but if it's a on-going project then I'll see how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimera Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Ok, I have decided that because of my dismal total, that stands at only 8 or 9, I'm going to make this a on-going project to try get more of them read. I'm only 15, so it's a bit more difficult to get hold of the ones I want, etc.. but if it's a on-going project then I'll see how it goes. You have plenty of time to get loads of reading done Ben, no need to pressure yourself! Plus this is only a list compiled by the BBC... it's fun to compare results but there's no reason why it should dictate our choice of books I'm sure you've read and will read plenty of great books which aren't mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Oh yeah, I know that! Of course I'm not going to let someone choose a list of books that I definitely have to read. But a lot of these sound great, and a fair few have interested me before anyway.. so I was just thinking it might be good, if I get the chance, to read some more on the list. Of course I wont put pressure on myself to read them all or anything like that, I'll probably just think of it as a long-term thing that I don't have to dedicate myself to. If that makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimera Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Oh ok, sorry if I flew off the handle... not sure why *laughs* I guess I just get a bit annoyed at all those lists of books people "have to read" which are around... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Haha, no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binary_Digit Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 (edited) 48 and counting. Its rather funny really. It's almost as if the BBC had the same reading list as my high school and college professors. I read many of these books at the direction of my teachers. 23 of them in fact! 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen- 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy- 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens- 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac- (One of my all-time favorite books.) 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante- 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - 80 Possession - AS Byatt - 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Edited March 23, 2009 by Binary_Digit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionen Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 8 1984 - George Orwell 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery Read = 4, Unfinished = 2, TBR pile = 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArthurDent Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Well, I'm at 11... which is still more than 6, but I'm afraid much less than I wish it was... 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen- 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy- 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens- 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac- 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante- 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - 80 Possession - AS Byatt - 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 45 I have read (some so long ago I can barely remember them) In Bold Black 17 I have, and have either dabbled in (eg Shakespeare and Bible) or have never started. In Red Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronwen Posted March 23, 2009 Author Share Posted March 23, 2009 Binary, you have some posting style! *impressed* Does anyone know why there's not one Stephen King on their list? Not one my friend said that some consider him to be 'low brow'! As if! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Oh ok, sorry if I flew off the handle... not sure why *laughs* I guess I just get a bit annoyed at all those lists of books people "have to read" which are around... Chimera, it's one of the things which annoys me too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 BDoes anyone know why there's not one Stephen King on their list? Not one my friend said that some consider him to be 'low brow'! As if! Sadly, horror (especially when deservedly famous and popular) tends to be classed outside the boundaries of "proper literature"; which is nonsense, as Stoker's "Dracula", Shelley's "Frankenstein" etc. are both horror and proper literature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 You have plenty of time to get loads of reading done Ben, no need to pressure yourself! Plus this is only a list compiled by the BBC... it's fun to compare results but there's no reason why it should dictate our choice of books I'm sure you've read and will read plenty of great books which aren't mentioned. Oh ok, sorry if I flew off the handle... not sure why *laughs* I guess I just get a bit annoyed at all those lists of books people "have to read" which are around... Chimera, it's one of the things which annoys me too! Hear Hear! I've read some of them, will never read others of them, even ones I may own already! That's why I have enjoyed reading the BCF threads where we nominate books we would recommend and/or meant the most to us etc. So many different books, and opinions of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binary_Digit Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Binary, you have some posting style! *impressed* Does anyone know why there's not one Stephen King on their list? Not one my friend said that some consider him to be 'low brow'! As if! You flatter me. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 I'm sympathetic to the dislike of the slightly nagging tone of "books you must read" lists. But, generally, they are actually quite useful. From a personal perspective, I'd say this list, or the 1001 Books book, actually do contain a lot of the best books I've read, and tend to exclude books that have not been memorable or shallow or empty or whatever. (There are a few in both, but generally they're pretty good). I don't feel at all bad about any I've not read. Some really hold no interest for me. But generally they're useful as advisory. Particularly the 1001 books. I'll never read them all but if I want pointers it's not a bad place to start. Even, generally, books on that list that I hate I can see what the merit is and why people like them. Treat them as useful advice rather than as nagging. Although it is interesting to see the modern idea of what "the canon" of books where people might expect others to understand cultural references is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seiichi Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 (edited) Does anyone know why there's not one Stephen King on their list? Not one my friend said that some consider him to be 'low brow'! As if! Well, the first thing to note is that this isn't result of the BBC Big Read poll that surveyed the nations top x hundred best loved books. It's actually from a World Book Day survey from 2007. This means that out of the sample of 2000 who took the online survey to nominate their top 10 books, none of those were Stephen King fans, or so the results would have you believe. Let's say that there were a few Stephen King nominations. It's still unlikely that one of his books would have made it into the top 10 (in a sample that small) because for that to happen, the voters would have had to agree on one or two of his books they thought would stand out against the rest. The split vote between books would mean that the selected books would see him pushed out of the top 100. His chances of being listed would increase if the voters opted for a series he had written, instead of individual novels. If I remember correctly, the reason why J.K. Rowling didn't come top in the BBC Big Read was because each Harry Potter book was nominated individually, whereas in this poll the books are considered as a series. There was one Stephen King book that made the top 200 in the BBC poll: The Green Mile. I'll let people decide for themselves why, out of all his books, that one would have made the top 200. The Guardian report on the poll is here if anyone's interested. Edit: I remembered this Guardian list that was assembled earlier this year, which included a couple of Stephen King books. Edited March 25, 2009 by Seiichi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie2008 Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anisia Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
generalkala Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcolferas Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Mines Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 (edited) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Read 10 plays and the sonnets) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (First in TBR line) 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Second in TBR line) 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen- 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy- 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens- 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac- 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante- 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - 80 Possession - AS Byatt - 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I didn't do too well, but then, many of the books on this list are mediocre at best. Edited April 1, 2009 by Ben Mines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlette Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Mines Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Does anyone have the link to the BBC article in which this list appeared? I fail to see what criteria were used. How could anyone put The Da Vinci Code and Ulysses on the same list?! War and Peace and Bridget Jones' Diary?! Also, number 14 is the Complete Works of Shakespeare and 98 Hamlet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 I think it was a public vote, which means that makes sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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