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HA! I used "bolded" in a sentance! Who is it that has "bolded is not a word" in their siggy? Whoops on my part!!! :D |
ETA: The more I think about it, the more I wonder if I've read all of the Sherlock Homes stories, but I'll leave it in italics just in case. |
I'm pretty sure that the BBC asked people to vote for their favourite novels/literary works, hence the oddities on the list. It's pretty much like SYTYCD, it's not necessarily finding the best but rather the favourite.
ETA: Here's the BBC link for it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml |
My thoughts is that this is considered a list of "Classics"
The more current ones being books that will at some point probably be considered classics. But at first I also thought it was a strange list, even with my reasoning not all of it makes sense. |
Ok, I know I've read at least 18 of them.
And ditto with the thing about series VS individual books. That's lame because I've read parts of Harry Potter, the Chronicles of Narnia, and works of Shakespeare. It bothers me when they list one title from the series as a separate entity of the whole series. And seriously, who has read ALL of Shakespeare's works? Dang... |
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Looks about right, I read a lot of different books in high school and now alternate between science fiction and non-fiction. |
ETA: Sorry to rain (or maybe just sprinkle) on your parade with the series vs. whole books comments, SydneyK! It's still a fun list.
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[QUOTE=IrishLake;2005774]Which is why I italicized The Chronicals, yet bolded TL,tW,atW. I bolded HP and LotR because I've read all of the books in those series.
That's what I was thinking too! haha. And I also love that The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is listed separately...like it's not really part of the chronicles. haha |
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Complete Works of Shakespeare Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan Life of Pi - Yann Martel Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Moby Dick - Herman Melville Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Hamlet - William Shakespeare Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Very random list, quite a few of these were books I had to read in High School. |
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ETA: I read A LOT of books. The ones I read just happen not to be on this list. |
**It's in my stack to read next. Obviously, I had more than one professor who was seriously into Russian literature, but I've always had this fascination with Russia in the first place. I question whether or not this is a "new classics" list. Some of them haven't had the chance to stand the test of time yet, and some of them I seriously tried to read, but were just not anything I would read. On the other hand, I've read the Bible by the year at least three times, and many people wouldn't do that. It does show the variety of choices that people have to read in this part of the world - we are so fortunate! PPS: The numbering is off. Sorry, folks, I'm too tired to fix it! |
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