At last, a really good reading list!
Yes, I know that it is all wrong for my Year Nines, but most of these are great. But who the hell is Jacqueline Wilson?
The Big Read: BBC Top 200
Book | Read | May read | Owned |
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien | Y | Y | |
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen | Y | Y | |
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman | Y | ||
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams | Y | Y | |
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling | Y | Y | |
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee | Y | Y | |
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne | Y | Y | |
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell | Y | Y | |
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis | Y | Y | |
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë | Y | Y | |
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller | Y | Y | |
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë | Y | Y | |
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks | N | Y | |
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier | Y | ||
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger | Y | Y | |
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame | Y | Y | |
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens | Y | Y | |
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott | Y | Y | |
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres | Y | ||
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy | Y | ||
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell | Y | ||
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling | Y | Y | |
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling | Y | Y | |
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling | Y | Y | |
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien | Y | Y | |
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy | Y | Y | |
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot | Y | Y | |
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving | N | Y | |
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck | Y | ||
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll | Y | ||
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson | N | ||
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez | Y | ||
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett | N | ||
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens | Y | ||
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl | Y | ||
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson | Y | ||
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute | Y | Y | |
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen | Y | Y | |
39. Dune, Frank Herbert | Y | Y | |
40. Emma, Jane Austen | Y | Y | |
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery | N | ||
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams | Y | Y | |
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald | Y | Y | |
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas | Y | ||
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh | Y | Y | |
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell | Y | Y | |
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens | Y | ||
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy | Y | ||
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian | Y | ||
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher | N | ||
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett | Y | ||
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck | Y | Y | |
53. The Stand, Stephen King | N | ||
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy | Y | Y | |
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth | Y | Y | |
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl | Y | Y | |
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome | Y | Y | |
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell | Y | ||
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer | N | Y | |
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky | N | Y | Y |
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman | N | ||
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden | Y | Y | |
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens | Y | Y | |
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough | Y | ||
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett | N | ||
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton | N | ||
67. The Magus, John Fowles | N | Y | |
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman | Y | Y | |
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett | N | ||
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding | Y | Y | |
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind | Y | Y | |
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell | N | ||
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett | N | ||
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl | Y | N | |
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding | Y | ||
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt | N | ||
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins | Y | ||
78. Ulysses, James Joyce | Y | Y | |
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens | Y | Y | |
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson | N | ||
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl | N | ||
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith | Y | ||
83. Holes, Louis Sachar | N | ||
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake | Y | Y | |
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy | Y | Y | |
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson | N | N | |
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley | Y | Y | |
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons | N | Y | |
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist | N | ||
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac | Y | ||
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo | Y | ||
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel | Y | Y | |
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett | N | Y | |
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho | N | Y | Y |
95. Katherine, Anya Seton | N | Y | |
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer | N | ||
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez | Y | ||
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson | N | ||
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot | N | ||
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie | N | Y | |
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome | Y | ||
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett | N | Y | |
103. The Beach, Alex Garland | N | Y | |
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker | Y | Y | Y |
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz | N | ||
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens | N | Y | |
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz | N | ||
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks | N | Y | |
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth | Y | ||
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson | N | ||
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy | Y | Y | |
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend | Y | N | |
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat | Y | Y | |
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo | Y | Y | |
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy | Y | Y | |
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson | N | ||
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson | N | N | |
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde | N | Y | |
119. Shogun, James Clavell | Y | Y | |
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham | Y | Y | |
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson | N | ||
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray | Y | N | |
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy | Y | ||
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski | N | ||
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver | N | Y | |
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett | N | ||
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison | N | ||
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle | Y | ||
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt | Y | Y | |
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov | N | N | |
131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood | Y | N | |
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl | N | ||
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck | N | Y | N |
134. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl | N | ||
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett | N | ||
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker | N | Y | |
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett | N | Y | |
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan | Y | N | |
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson | N | ||
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson | N | ||
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque | Y | N | |
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson | N | ||
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby | N | Y | |
144. It, Stephen King | N | Y | |
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl | Y | N | |
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King | N | ||
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere | Y | N | |
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett | N | ||
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian | Y | Y | |
Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz | Y | ||
Soul Music, Terry Pratchett | N | ||
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett | N | ||
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett | N | ||
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan | Y | ||
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson | N | ||
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier | Y | N | |
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey | Y | N | |
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad | Y | Y | |
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling | Y | ||
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon | N | ||
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville | Y | ||
162. River God, Wilbur Smith | N | ||
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon | N | ||
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx | Y | Y | |
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving | N | Y | |
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore | Y | ||
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson | N | ||
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye | N | ||
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl | Y | ||
170. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White | N | Y | |
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley | Y | Y | |
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams | N | ||
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway | Y | Y | |
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco | Y | Y | |
175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder | Y | Y | |
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson | N | N | |
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl | N | ||
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov | N | Y | |
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach | Y | N | |
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery | Y | ||
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson | N | ||
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens | Y | N | |
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay | N | ||
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot | N | Y | |
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis | N | Y | |
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith | N | Y | |
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh | N | Y | |
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine | N | ||
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri | Y | ||
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence | Y | Y | |
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera | N | Y | |
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons | N | ||
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett | N | ||
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells | Y | ||
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans | N | ||
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry | N | Y | |
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett | N | ||
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White | Y | Y | |
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle | Y | Y | |
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews | N |