BBC Book List (How Many Have You Read?)

last SG · 2009-04-04T17:03:45+00:00

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the Bear SG

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x) - boring

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x) - long-winded drudge

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x) - boring

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ( )

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x) - excellent

6 The Bible - (x) - but of course

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (x) - excellent

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (x)

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( )

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (x) - great book

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x) - bored with it

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (x) - way too long ago.... forgot what it's about

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ( )

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ( ) not all

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x) - tolkien is hobbit forming.. it must suck to be OCD like him

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (x) - i still think he's a spoilt brat

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ( )

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (x) - again, too long ago.. can't for the life of me remember what it's about

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ( )

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x) - what a book!

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (x)

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (x) - his trilogy in 5 parts

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( )

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (x) - excellent!

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (x) - a surprisingly good story

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (x)

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ( ) - mom stole my book and i've not seen it since!

34 Emma - Jane Austen (x) - tough slog to read this...

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (x) - i should never read her books

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ( )

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ( ) - i've yet to go find this

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (x) - idiotic book.. it's just a crappy "lurve" story set in a geisha house...

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ( )

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x)

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ( ) - i tried and got bored after 1 chapter

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 (x) - way too long ago.. i should find and read it again

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( )

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x) - wow.. the dark side.. wonderful

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (x) - wonder if the tiger should have just eaten him.. ahahaha

52 Dune - Frank Herbert (x) - THE best sci-fi books ever

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( )

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (x) - i must have been masochistic to read that stuff

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( )

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (x) - as always his stuff is thought-provoking and dark

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (x) - soma anyone?

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (x) - BS book, panders to the "oh.. he's autistic or whatever" crowd.. book which should have been drowned at birth

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )

61 Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck ( )

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (x) - humbert humbert... what does one do in the face of obsession?

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 (x) - the bible of The Beat generation...

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (x) - fluff... but enjoyable fluff

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( )

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (x) - but of course...

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x)

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (x) - read this when i was 12.. i wonder if it messed me up...

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 (x)

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( )

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (x) - as powerful a movie as it was, it was nothing compared to the book (as always)

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 (x)

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ( )

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (x) - i think so... read ots of this crazy lady's children's books

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( )

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x )

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 (x) - kinda sad...

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ( )

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x)

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X )

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (x)

i clock in at 48

Detached SG

i clock in at 48

Not fair, you're a good decade ahead of me

Detached SG

Woah, bear and I share the share thoughts on Dune..

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

cApitaland SG

what are books

Ferret SG

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x)

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (moobee)

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ( )

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ( x)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ( )

6 The Bible - (x)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (x )

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - 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 Hitch Hiker’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 (x)

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ( )

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ( )

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (moobee)

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 ( moobee )

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ( )

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x)

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)

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 (x)

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( )

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ( x )

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 ( moobee )

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( )

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ( )

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ( )

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ( moobee)

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (stephen king de)

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 ( moobee )

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 (x)

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 (x)

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x )

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( )

Ferret read 12

Detached SG

Oi ferrie.. count leh..

Ferret SG

u count lah.

i ish lazy.

Detached SG

u count lah.

i ish lazy.

Oi.. play by the rules hor

Ferret SG

got rules ? where ?

Detached SG

okok.....

Ferrie = 12

Ferret SG

Lychee ish a good boy.

MaNyZeR SG

na bei... 4 nia...

the bible, lotr, hobbits, charlotte's web

airgrinder SG

Great stuff!! I am wanting to find this list after I saw the column in last Sunday times!

Let me see...

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

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Damn... I'm below average...

Detached SG

Lychee ish a good boy.

Would you buy me a beer then?

Detached SG

Great stuff!! I am wanting to find this list after I saw the column in last Sunday times!

Let me see...

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

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Damn... I'm below average...

Of course, I only post good stuff

kiseki SG

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 (x)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x)

6 The Bible - ()

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( )

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( )

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (x)

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x)

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 (x)

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (x)

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ( )

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )

25 The Hitch Hiker’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 (x)

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (x)

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x)

34 Emma - Jane Austen ()

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x)

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ( )

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (x)

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ( )

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x)

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 (x)

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 (x)

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( )

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ()

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x)

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ()

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)

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 (x)

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 (x)

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (x)

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ()

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x )

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 (x)

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x)

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X )

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( )

24!

Kuali Baba SG

Anna Karenina is a gem, while Notes From a Small Island is the travelogue.

Ferret SG

Would you buy me a beer then?

Nah. I would buy u a little basket... put stuffing at the bottom.. put u in... and then tie a ribbon...

Detached SG

Nah. I would buy u a little basket... put stuffing at the bottom.. put u in... and then tie a ribbon...

u ish so nice todae

wonderamazement SG

5 nia lol.