I found this while I was whiling away precious time and procrastinating from doing some obvious chores. But now that I have found this list and believe me I have found many a reading list before, but none appealed to me (anyway I find the list reading very restrictive……let me meander aimlessly in the sea of literature and I am one happy girl), I must confess, I do want to finish those that I have not read in this list. Self obsessed that I am, I want the whole blog world to follow my progress….so do join me. The ones that are stricken out are the ones I have already read. There are a couple which I have not read in a loooooooong time like Lord of the Rings and Treasure Island. The ones that are in bold and stricken out have been thumbed so many times by me that the pages are smudged, the covers are indistinguishable and some critical pages (especially the parts I really like ) are falling out….but boy! Do I love them!!!!As of today, May 21st 2012, I have already read, 42 out of 100. Oh! and Yes…this the BCC Top 100 – The Big Read
| 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 |
| 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 |
Mockingbirds, Looking Glasses & Prejudices... 
Man, that is a long list!!! 100 books!! Wow!! Anyways, best of luck… 🙂
And how was Alchemist?? I really love that book because it influenced me a lot in my life… How was it??
Thanks for the best wishes..I need it….some of the books in the list are great, but I know I not fond of the genre and it will require all my will power to plod through them…..I know a lot of my friends feel that Alchemist changed thier lives…..but I was not particularly impressed by it…but then as one friend of mine told me…its all got to do with one belief system and mine is kind of unhinged ! 🙂
Even though some genres are not of your like, I hope you enjoy all the books! I had so much fun with some of the books in this list.. They are just amazing ones! 🙂
I hope so to….I agree with you on the fact though that I too had a lot of fun with some of these books on the list….in fact some of them are my well thumbed best friends 🙂
We seem to have a lot of books in common on our to-read list! 🙂
Gosh! Great…we should exchange notes on the likes and dislikes and of course the favourites!!!
Just so you know (and to get your Lectio List going), from your list I’d be interested in reading together:
The Lord of the Rings (well, look at that! We already are! 😉 )
Dune
Swallows and Amazons
Crime and Punishment
Lord of the Flies
Ulysses
Gormenghast (I’d love to read this one!)
In case you want a reading partner, keep it in mind! 🙂
Hahhhaaaa Cleo!!! You are the bestest friend a gal, well a bookish gal could wish for! Awesome! Gormenghast is something I have been just planning to get on with…lets talk more 🙂
Well, well, how would I know that you were connected to Brona through your blogs?
I love the title of your blog, of course, and now I must borrow this amazing list!
I will be checking your posts and possibly spamming you with likes and comments, LOL.
Hahaaa….Thank You! Brona has been more than a friend for years…she is someone I seriously look up to and admire ! Thank So much for the kind words and yes, let’s talk books more….it’s not spam, it’s passion!!
Well said fellow reader. I also saw Cleo. Speaking of inspirations, thanks to these ladies I have conquered mount Moby Dick, and mount Iliad. I won’t be who I am without them. Possibly there’s more connections we share.
Cheers to our newly started blog friendship.