Here we go... These were the results of the BBC's Big Read back in 2003. Apparently the BBC surveys suggest that the average person will only have read 6 of the top 100 (*snort*). No such problems round here, methinks! I wasn't sure quite how to name or list these, so I've separated them out into the original three groups to make up the 200 books, and listed everything alphabetically by author...
Books in red are books I've read.
Books in green are books I've partially read.
Books in black are the ones I just haven't gotten round to yet...
... and books with a STAR (*) are some of my favourites of the bunch!
BOOKISH ROYALTY
THE TOP 21
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë*
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë*
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier*
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien*
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
BOOKISH ARISTOCRACY
22-100
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen*
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett*
The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Matilda - Roald Dahl
The BFG - Roald Dahl
The Twits - Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas*
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Magician - Raymond E. Feist
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Magus - John Fowles
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons*
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Goldman
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Dune - Frank Herbert
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Ulysses - James Joyce
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Stand - Stephen King
Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
The Shell Seekers - Rosamund Pilcher
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett (or at least, I think so - there are so many!)
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling*
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling*
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling*
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Holes - Louis Sachar
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Katherine - Anya Seton
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith*
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Perfume - Patrick Süskind
The Secret History - Donna Tartt*
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
Girls in Love - Jacqueline Wilson
The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jaqueline Wilson (I think so anyway - I MUST have, right?)
Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
BOOKISH ELITE
101-200
Flowers in the Attic - Virginia Andrews
Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore*
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Possession - A.S. Byatt
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle (I think I made my own out of paper circles too!)
Papillon - Henri Charriere
Shogun - James Clavell
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
Danny and the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl
George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
The Witches - Roald Dahl
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Silas Marner - George Eliot
The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans
The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
Cross Stitch - Diana Gabaldon
The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy*
The Beach - Alex Garland
Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Point Blanc - Anthony Horowitz
Skeleton Key - Anthony Horowitz
Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
The Far Pavilions - M.M. Kaye
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
It - Stephen King
The Green Mile - Stephen King
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
Atonement - Ian McEwan*
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Cruel Sea - Nicholas Monsarrat
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
Man and Boy - Tony Parsons
Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
The Truth - Terry Pratchett
Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett (ummm, I think so anyway)
Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison
The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
River God - Wilbur Smith
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Goosebumps - R.L. Stine (there were so many - I read a fair few...)
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
They Used to Play On Grass - Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde*
Bad Girls - Jacqueline Wilson
Dustbin Baby - Jacqueline Wilson
Girls in Tears - Jacqueline Wilson
Girls Out Late - Jacqueline Wilson
Lola Rose - Jacqueline Wilson
Secrets - Jacqueline Wilson
Sleepovers - Jacqueline Wilson
The Dare Game - Jacqueline Wilson (at least, I don't think so...)
The Illustrated Mum - Jacqueline Wilson
The Suitcase Kid - Jacqueline Wilson (I think... darn it, she's written so many!)
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
