My Top Books

I’m working on this so I can start a game on FaceBook. I want to go beyond the Telegraph list!

1. Possession – A.S. Byatt
2. The Cruel Sea – Nicholas Monsaratt
3. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
4. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
5.  The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
6. Dirt Music – Tim Winton
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
8. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
9. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
11. 1984 – George Orwell
12. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
13. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
14. The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
15. The Happy Return – C.S. Forrester
16. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
17. A Passage to India by EM Forster
18. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
19. Dr Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
20. Ulysses – James Joyce
21. Middlemarch – George Eliot
22. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
23. Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brien
24. Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke
25. We didn’t Mean to go to Sea – Arthur Ransome
26. The Dream of Scipio – Iain Pears
27. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
28. Voyage to Venus – C.S. Lewis
29. An Equal Music – Vikram Seth
30. My Brother Jack – George Johnstone

I’m going to stop at 30 to leave myself room for 50 when I’m 50.