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[aquila1nz]

OK, these are apparently are 100 most popular books from some BBC poll, and I've highlighted the ones I've read.

1984 George Orwell
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm George Orwell
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer
The BFG Roald Dahl
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty Anna Sewell
Bleak House Charles Dickens
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones' Diary Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Double Act Jacqueline Wilson
Dune Frank Herbert
Emma Jane Austen
Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
Girls in Love Jacqueline Wilson
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
The Godfather Mario Puzo
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mr Tom Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast Mervyn Peake
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets JK Rowling
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire JK Rowling
Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone JK Rowling
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban JK Rowling
His Dark Materials trilogy Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
Holes Louis Sacher
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer
Katherine Anya Seton
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies William Golding
The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton
Magician Raymond E Feist
The Magus John Fowles
Matilda Roald Dahl
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Middlemarch George Eliot
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
Mort Terry Pratchett
Nightwatch Terry Pratchett
Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
On the Road Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume Patrick Süskind
Persuasion Jane Austen
The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers Rosamund Pilcher
The Stand Stephen King
The Story of Tracy Beaker Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds Colleen McCollough
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits Roald Dahl
Ulysses James Joyce
Vicky Angel Jacqueline Wilson
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down Richard Adams
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë

About 59 of them. Not bad.

Comments

[flyingfishy.livejournal.com]

That is a really cool list.

I can add, "The Story of Tracy Beaker", "Artemis Fowl", and "Bridget Jone's Diary".

Funny enough, most of the books from our current english elective unit are included.

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

Oooh, you like Terry Pratchett too?

I don't know if you do the whole mailing-list thing, but there are a couple of low-volume ones you might like: the ekumen (le guin) and discworldmonthly (pratchett). Good general info and discussion on both.

[flyingfishy.livejournal.com]

like Terry Pratchett, but haven't really taken to discworld. Other people think that that is rather strange.

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

I like Good Omens best.

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[flyingfishy.livejournal.com]

Good Omens?

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[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

Terry Pratcheet and Neil Gaiman.

Very very funny. Not discworld. Think all those movies about the coming of the Antichrist and the end of the world. There's an Angel and a fallen angel, a lovely Just William takeoff and witchfinder generals and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and it's just wonderful.

[flyingfishy.livejournal.com]

sounds cool. Will order it from the Library.

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

When worlds collide (not really since I think I found your lj through the le guin interest). I'm on the ekumen. And I guess I do do the mailing list thing since I'm on about 100 (really truely).

I read the Wild Girls story today and really enjoyed it.

What else had I meant to tell you - Oh yes wandering around nebula I found your book reviews and realised your user name was from the source I'd thought it was, which was very cool. Did that make sense?

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

And amusingly, you replied to something on the ekumen right after posting this comment! That was pretty funny to have pop up in my inbox :).

Yes, the thing about my username made sense...wow, those book reviews are ooooold...a couple of years. I really must remember to update. Thanks for the reminder.