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 |
