BBC Big Read

Planning to read through the list. If the question is why? Answer is I think I may have read already more than half so think it is an achievable target. Ok not more than half. Just nearly half at 46 now.I love my list. Could be any list. Why not this one? Not sure about Stephen King, Salman Rushdie and Ulyssess. Hopefully Lolita is not on the list. I am not going to read that one. Regarding horror, magical realsim and stream of consiousness, We will think of that when we get there. Lots of childrens books on the way that I hadnt read, so think I can do this by end of 2023? 8 months 54, can be done. 

 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien - Read 

2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen- Read 

3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman -(3/3) Read

4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams - Read

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling- Read 

6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee- Read 

7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne- Read 

8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell- Read 

9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis - Read

10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë- Read 

11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller- Read 

12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë- Read 

13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks - Read

14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier- Read 

15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger- Read 

16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame - Read

17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens- Read 

18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott- Read 

19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres -To Read

20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy- To Read

21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell- Read 

22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling - Read

23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling - Read

24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling- Read 

25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien- Read 

26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy- Read 

27. Middlemarch, George Eliot- Read 

28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving -To Read

29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck -To Read

30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll- Read 

31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson - Read

32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez- Read 

33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett -To Read

34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens- Read 

35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl - Read

36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson- Read 

37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute - Read

38. Persuasion, Jane Austen- Read 

39. Dune, Frank Herbert -To Read

40. Emma, Jane Austen- Read 

41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery- Read 

42. Watership Down, Richard Adams -To Read

43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald- Read

 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas -To Read

45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh -To Read

46. Animal Farm, George Orwell- Read 

47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens- Read 

48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy - Read

49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian - Read

50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher -Read

 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett- Read 

52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck- Read 

53. The Stand, Stephen King -Read

54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy- Read 

55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth- Read 

56. The BFG, Roald Dahl -To Read

57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome -To Read

58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell- Read 

59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer -Read

60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Read 

61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman  - Read

62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden- Read 

63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens- Read 

64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough- Read 

65. Mort, Terry Pratchett -To Read

66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton -Read

67. The Magus, John Fowles -To Read

68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman -To Read

69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett -To Read

70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding- Read 

71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind -To Read

72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell -To Read

73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett -To Read

74. Matilda, Roald Dahl- Read 

75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding- Read 

76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt -To Read

77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins- Read 

78. Ulysses, James Joyce -To Read

79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens -To Read

80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson - Read

81. The Twits, Roald Dahl - Read

82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith - Read

83. Holes, Louis Sachar -Read

84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake -To Read

85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy- Read 

86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson - Read

87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley- Read 

88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons -Read

89. Magician, Raymond E Feist -To Read

90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac -To Read

91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo -To Read

92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel -To Read

93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett -To Read

94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho- Read 

95. Katherine, Anya Seton -Read

96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer- Read 

97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez- Read 

98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson - Read

99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot - Read

100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie - Read

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