The Book Meme

[percival]

which of the 100 most popular British books have I read?



books read in bold, starred books are ones I'd like to read

1. 1984 - George Orwell
2. The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
4. Animal Farm - George Orwell
5. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
6. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
7. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
8. The BFG - Roald Dahl
*9. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
10. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
11. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
12. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
13. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
14. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
15. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
*16. Catch-22 - Joseph L Heller
17. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
18. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
19. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
20. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel
21. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
22. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
*23. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
*24. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
26. Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
27. Dune - Frank Herbert
28. Emma - Jane Austen
29. Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
30. Girls in Love - Jacqueline Wilson
31. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
32. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
33. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
*34. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
35. Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
36. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
37. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
38. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
39. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
40. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
41. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
42. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
43. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stones - JK Rowling
44. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
45. His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman
46. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
47. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein
48. Holes - Louis Sachar
*49. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
50. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
51. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
52. Katherine - Anya Seton
53. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
54. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
55. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
56. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein
57. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
58. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
59. Magician - Raymond E Feist
60. The Magus - John Fowles
61. Matilda - Roald Dahl
62. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
*63. Middlemarch - George Elliot
*64. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
65. Mort - Terry Pratchett
*66. Nightwatch - Terry Pratchett
67. Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
68. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
69. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
70. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
71. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
72. Persuasion - Jane Austen
73. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
74. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
75. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
76. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
77. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
78. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
79. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
80. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
81. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
82. The Stand - Stephen King
83. The Story of Tracey Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
*84. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
85. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
86. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
87. Tess of the D'Urbevilles - Thomas Hardy
88. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough
89. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
90. A Town like Alice - Nevil Shute
91. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
92. The Twits - Roald Dahl
93. Ulysses - James Joyce
94. Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
*95. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
96. Watership Down - Richard Adams
97. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
98. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
*99. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
100. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte



What does this tell us? I want to re-energise my fiction reading by devouring big Indian English tomes :)

Comments

[perceval.livejournal.com]

don't worry - it was the tag. should be fixed now! :)

[cynthia-black.livejournal.com]

Yep, all fixed now - I didn't think you would have read 75 out of 100! Now that would have made me look really bad.

winnie the pooh

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

no winnie the pooh?
.
If so envy you the fresh reading!

Re: winnie the pooh

[perceval.livejournal.com]

probably at some stage, but the whole Pooh industry & exegesis has somehow spoilt him a bit for me, if you know what I mean

Pooh exegesis

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

I remember enjoying "The Pooh Perplex"
by Harry Crews with supposed academic
essays about Pooh from Freudian, Jungian,
Marxist and so on perspectives...

well, but the stories themselves are
immortal and need no commenary either
serious or joking really.
+Seraphim.

Re: winnie the pooh

[ducklet.livejournal.com]

My Tao of Pooh just came in. :-)

[pippins-babies.livejournal.com]

Hi Perceval, as a Scottish Quiller / Geekmoot stalker / livejournal phantom, I've befriended you but it's perfectly okay to be freaked out and ignore me if you so wish...

Luce :o)

[perceval.livejournal.com]

Oh, you must be Luce the Box, who Helen wanted desperately to drag down to GEEXMOOT and who Katie keeps hugging!

::friends BAX::