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Mostly for my own reference - to remind me what I haven't read yet. For when I finally get around to reading more.
I seem to spend all my (what I laughingly refer to as 'spare') time these days reading online slash, although I'm still acquiring books (I picked up 6 second-hand ones at Oxfam last week and have only read one of them) . The online stuff does take up less room though. The bedroom is swamped with piles of books
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen These two have been tussling for top place in my list of favourite books for decades now. Love them both.
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 Years ago. Can't remember much about it now.
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (I think I've read it but I'm not sure)
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 Nope. But I have seen the film.
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling It's the Philosopher's Stone, dammit! Damn film distributors/publishers, renaming it because they thought the US audience would be too thick to know what the Philosopher's Stone was *rolls eyes*
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 Having daughters, I've seen the tv series. Pretty good (well the girls love it)
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett Never even heard of this one ... :$
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 At school - I think. It was a heck of a long time ago, after all!
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 I liked these :) All very middle-class and wholesome, but what the hell. How times have changed though - no-one would dare let kids this age go off camping unsupervised for days at a time these days Or sailing by themselves. A shame really.
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 Hmmm, possibly, but I'm not sure. Actually, probably not.
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett There should definitely be more Terry Pratchett in this list. And a lot higher up. Men at Arms is my particular Pratchett favourite.
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton Bits of it. My kids have it but we haven't read all of it yet
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 My daughter loves the film. She was in hospital for 12 days and watched the video of this constantly. I would have thought that an American film version of a Roald Dahl story might ruin it, but Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman are gorgeously grotesque in it. And who'd have thought that the horrible Miss Trunchbull could be the same actress as the warm and motherly Ma Larkin?
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 One I've always meant to read but haven't got around to. Have now picked up a copy at a book stall (and the others in the trilogy) but they're still waiting to be read.
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 Oh come on!!
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
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt Read this one on my honeymoon :)
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl Reading it to my daughter atm
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson Isn't there a lot of Jacqueline Wilson on this list?
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett This should be waaayyyy further up the list
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling I vaguely remember this one.
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville Maybe. Maybe not.
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon Hey, he came from my neck of the woods! Another one I've bought but not read yet. Gives the impression he might be dour and a bit depressing, writing about the hard rural existence of the ferm-touns of the north-east of scotland. Tis my heritage tho, so I feel I should read it sometime. It might be more cheerful than I think, I just seem to recall a story we had to read at school called 'The House with the Green Shutters' with a similar theme that was very depressing, which might be what put me off. Actually that might not even have been the same author, lol! *Feels proud that a local lad made the list though*
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore I really liked this one. very romantic *sighs* Even though it wasn't very complimentary about Catholics. Regarded as a very dodgy, possibly treasonous lot at the time were us Papists! ;)
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Might have. Sometimes it's difficult to remember if you've actually read the book when the story is so well-known. I think I probably have.
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams Football-related, I would guess. Not all that interested ...
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway Have I? I recall reading a fair bit of Hemingway in my early teens but I can't recall if this was one. On balance, I'll say yes.
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco Liked this. Altho they changed the ending for the film!! Tchah!
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh I think I'll give it a miss - too disturbing. Bought another Irvine Welsh book for my (grown-up) nephew's birthday and had a quick glance through it - there was a depiction of a gang rape in there that has stayed with me ever since *shivers*.
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews Seriously?? Lots of people actually put this down as the best book they'd ever read? No offence to Virgina Andrews (and it's many years since I read it) but I hardly recall it qualifying as great literature. Jeez ...
So, if you can be bothered - which of the ones I haven't read should I have a look at first? (The ones I've read are in bold.) Which ones would enrich my life and you can't believe I haven't read yet and must go and buy/borrow immediately?
Actually it's kind of horrifying to see how many of the list I haven't read, as I've always considered myself a reasonably well-read person.
I seem to spend all my (what I laughingly refer to as 'spare') time these days reading online slash, although I'm still acquiring books (I picked up 6 second-hand ones at Oxfam last week and have only read one of them) . The online stuff does take up less room though. The bedroom is swamped with piles of books
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen These two have been tussling for top place in my list of favourite books for decades now. Love them both.
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 Years ago. Can't remember much about it now.
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (I think I've read it but I'm not sure)
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 Nope. But I have seen the film.
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling It's the Philosopher's Stone, dammit! Damn film distributors/publishers, renaming it because they thought the US audience would be too thick to know what the Philosopher's Stone was *rolls eyes*
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 Having daughters, I've seen the tv series. Pretty good (well the girls love it)
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett Never even heard of this one ... :$
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 At school - I think. It was a heck of a long time ago, after all!
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 I liked these :) All very middle-class and wholesome, but what the hell. How times have changed though - no-one would dare let kids this age go off camping unsupervised for days at a time these days Or sailing by themselves. A shame really.
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 Hmmm, possibly, but I'm not sure. Actually, probably not.
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett There should definitely be more Terry Pratchett in this list. And a lot higher up. Men at Arms is my particular Pratchett favourite.
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton Bits of it. My kids have it but we haven't read all of it yet
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 My daughter loves the film. She was in hospital for 12 days and watched the video of this constantly. I would have thought that an American film version of a Roald Dahl story might ruin it, but Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman are gorgeously grotesque in it. And who'd have thought that the horrible Miss Trunchbull could be the same actress as the warm and motherly Ma Larkin?
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 One I've always meant to read but haven't got around to. Have now picked up a copy at a book stall (and the others in the trilogy) but they're still waiting to be read.
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 Oh come on!!
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
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt Read this one on my honeymoon :)
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl Reading it to my daughter atm
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson Isn't there a lot of Jacqueline Wilson on this list?
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett This should be waaayyyy further up the list
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling I vaguely remember this one.
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville Maybe. Maybe not.
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon Hey, he came from my neck of the woods! Another one I've bought but not read yet. Gives the impression he might be dour and a bit depressing, writing about the hard rural existence of the ferm-touns of the north-east of scotland. Tis my heritage tho, so I feel I should read it sometime. It might be more cheerful than I think, I just seem to recall a story we had to read at school called 'The House with the Green Shutters' with a similar theme that was very depressing, which might be what put me off. Actually that might not even have been the same author, lol! *Feels proud that a local lad made the list though*
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore I really liked this one. very romantic *sighs* Even though it wasn't very complimentary about Catholics. Regarded as a very dodgy, possibly treasonous lot at the time were us Papists! ;)
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Might have. Sometimes it's difficult to remember if you've actually read the book when the story is so well-known. I think I probably have.
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams Football-related, I would guess. Not all that interested ...
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway Have I? I recall reading a fair bit of Hemingway in my early teens but I can't recall if this was one. On balance, I'll say yes.
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco Liked this. Altho they changed the ending for the film!! Tchah!
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh I think I'll give it a miss - too disturbing. Bought another Irvine Welsh book for my (grown-up) nephew's birthday and had a quick glance through it - there was a depiction of a gang rape in there that has stayed with me ever since *shivers*.
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews Seriously?? Lots of people actually put this down as the best book they'd ever read? No offence to Virgina Andrews (and it's many years since I read it) but I hardly recall it qualifying as great literature. Jeez ...
So, if you can be bothered - which of the ones I haven't read should I have a look at first? (The ones I've read are in bold.) Which ones would enrich my life and you can't believe I haven't read yet and must go and buy/borrow immediately?
Actually it's kind of horrifying to see how many of the list I haven't read, as I've always considered myself a reasonably well-read person.