Since finishing this list, my reading has been somewhat aimless. Over the last 3 months, I've read very little except Agatha Christie...Kindle-related convenience! I'm starting to be able to predict the solution by about chapter 2 so I think it's time to force myself to move on.
And so...another list. I'm not sure if I will force myself through the whole list, but here it is for reference, predominantly for me, when I'm low on ideas. These were voted the UK's best-loved books (as opposed to the books everyone should read) in 2003. I think there is probably some cross-over between the two, so let's see how many I've read at this point.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien - read it
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen - read it
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman - read it
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams - read it
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling - read it
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - read it, love it!
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne - read it
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell - read it
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis - read it
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë - read it
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller - read it
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë - read it
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks - read it
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier - read it
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger - read it
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame - read it
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens - read it
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott - read it
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres - have tried...will have to try again
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy - read it
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell - read it
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling - read it
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling - read it
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling - read it
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien - read it
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy - read it
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot - read it
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving - read it
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck - read it
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll - read it
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson - haven't read it!
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez - read it
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett - haven't read it
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens - read it
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl - read it
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson - think I have read it but don't remember so will re0read - complete 17/09/13
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute - read it - BRILLIANT
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen - read it
39. Dune, Frank Herbert - read it
40. Emma, Jane Austen - read it
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery - read it
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams - read it
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald - read it
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas - read it
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh - read it
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell - read it
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens - read it
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy - read it
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian - read it
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher - read it
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett - read it
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck - read it
53. The Stand, Stephen King - haven't read it
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy - read it
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth - read it
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl - read it
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome - read it
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell - read it
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer - haven't read it
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky - read it
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman - haven't read it
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden - read it
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens - read it
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough - haven't read it - complete 17/09/13
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett - read it
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton - read it
67. The Magus, John Fowles - haven't read it
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - haven't read it
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett - haven't read it
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding - read it
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind - haven't read it
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell - haven't read it - complete 26/08/13
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett - haven't read it
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl - read it
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding - read it
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt - read it
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins - read it
78. Ulysses, James Joyce - have read as much as I'm ever going to
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens - read it
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson - haven't read it
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl - read it
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith - read it
83. Holes, Louis Sachar - haven't read it
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake - haven't read it
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy - read it
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson - haven't read it
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley - read it
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons - read it
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist - haven't read it
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac - read it
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo - read it
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel - haven't read it
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett - haven't read it
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho - haven't read it
95. Katherine, Anya Seton - haven't read it - complete 23/08/13
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer - - read it
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez - read it
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson - haven't read it
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot - haven't read it
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie - read it
So, I've read 74 of these. 26 to go. The next few months may highly feature teen girl fiction (Jacqueline Wilson) and Pratchett!
Target list, then, is highlighted in red above. I suspect this may be less intellectually stimulating than the last list, but there are a few I've never heard of so it could be interesting.
