22 read. 78 to go!
1. 1984, George Orwell
2. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
4. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
6. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
7. Animal Farm, George Orwell
8. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
10. A Prayer for Owen Meaney, John Irving
11. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
12. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
13. Atonement, Ian McEwan
14. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
15. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
16. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
17. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
18. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. Catch 22, Joseph Heller
21. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchel
22. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
23. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
24. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
25. Dracula, Bram Stoker
26. Dune, Frank Herbert
27. Emma, Jane Austen
28. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
29. Germinal, Emile Zol
30. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
31. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
32. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
35. Holes, Louis Sachar
38. Katherine, Anya Seton
39. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
43. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
44. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
45. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
47. Middlemarch, George Eliot
48. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
49. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
50. Notes From A Small Island, Bill Bryson
51. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
52. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
53. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
54. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
56. Persuasion, Jane Austen
57. Possession, AS Byatt
61. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
62. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
63. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
64. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
66. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
67. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
69. The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom
70. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
71. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
73. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
74. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
75. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
76. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
77. The Inferno, Dante
78. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
79. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
82. The Magus, John Fowles
84. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
85. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
86. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
88. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
89. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
91. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
94. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
95. Ulysses, James Joyce
96. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackera
97. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
98. Watership Down, Richard Adams
This list is an amalgamation of two lists. The book challenge on facebook (http://apps.facebook.com/booklistchallenge/List/?l=1) and BBC The Big Read http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml
Although the facebook list states it is from BBC it is likely just a copy of the Big Read with a few tweaks. I have taken all books from both lists and removed most of the children books (I've read them as a child) and fantasy books (just not my thing) to get my final 100 list. Wish me luck!
