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The Novel 100
This list is different than the 100 book list I had sen previously. I have only read 5 from this list!
Let's try this: In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books. Here are the top 100 novels:1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
See next post for the next 50 books.
Marbear
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Marbear
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
Marbear
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
marbear
Alright, 20 from the second 100. Why so many children's books though? I don't get it. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is great, but doesn't compare with The Grapes of Wrath!
hi christine. i totally agree with your comment about the kids books. sorry for my strange typing. i'm off work with tendonitis in my left elbow. very painful and i can only type with my right hand. lol.marbear
51 for me...not bad, usually these lists contain mostly books I wouldn't want to read, but this one seems better - for me anyway :) (Cross-stitch by Diana Gabaldon is known as Outlander in North America, if I remember right.)
I've read 40 of them and I am surprised at how many of them I have actually read on the list.Thanks Linette, I had no idea that Cross Stitch was Outlander!! (Which I LOVE)
I've read 50 of the 200. Totally agree with your comments re the number of children's stories. Definitely wonder how they picked some of them.. Interesting though
My Lord! You guys are good. I'm barely getting my proper reading on because I'm so busy. NEED to catch up! lol
For the FB app, I've read 18 out of their 110. (16%)From the list of 200 posted here, I've read 54 out of 200. (27%)
The 2nd list makes me feel much better. ;)
Ha ha! I will, thank you! Thanks for posting up the lists. I went to my FB page and did a few more. It was fun! Now I'm getting to see what my "real world" friends' scores are. It's neat!
19 from 1-507 from 51-100
3.5 from 101-150 (I'm actually in the middle of reading one of them right now.)
9 from 151-200
Alright, serious question....do people actually like Ulysses? I mean I can understand it getting to be 77 through the sheer pretentiousness of rating it as great, but I've honestly never been able to suffer through more than about 4 hours worth of that book. I think I made it to page 3. I don't think I've attempted it since I was about 20, so maybe it's time again, but I don't relish the thought. It' ranks only mildly above Moby Dick, which I unfortunately did read every page of.
As for the kid's books, that's what happens when people are nominating their most loved book. For me a book like A Wrinkle in Time is still WAY up on my list. While I don't know that I'd ever list it as favorite, it could certainly creep into a top 10.
Also 10 on the Sci Fi list originally posted. I have to say I DID like the Sci Fi list more than the Fantasy list. The fantasy one seemed to leave out some very popular fantasy as well as foundational fantasy and instead put in books that, while slightly fantastic, I never really considered a part of the fantasy genre.
Nathan wrote: "19 from 1-50
7 from 51-100
3.5 from 101-150 (I'm actually in the middle of reading one of them right now.)
9 from 151-200
Alright, serious question....do people actually like Ulysses? I mean I ca..."
Hi Nathan, welcome to The Biggest Unread Book Club in the world. And I think you nailed Ulysses when you talked about it's reputation of virtuosity being the one thing that has kept it in print. Critics & academics love it because it separates them from it's readers without requiring them to explain their position. Joyce's trick was to mess with several literary conventions in such a way that even his contemporary critics would have had to produce a critical masterpiece to explain their reasons for not liking it. Joyce & Anthony Burgess were so lost in their own accomplishments & egoes that they became more concerned with making asses of the critics than writing for the masses. I'm 60 & have tried Ulysses 4 times at different stages of my life, and never gone beyond 30 pages. The only question it left me with was: 'Why would I want to pursue it, unless to brag that I had & pretend to all & sundry that I understood it. Congratulations on giving up.
7 from 51-100
3.5 from 101-150 (I'm actually in the middle of reading one of them right now.)
9 from 151-200
Alright, serious question....do people actually like Ulysses? I mean I ca..."
Hi Nathan, welcome to The Biggest Unread Book Club in the world. And I think you nailed Ulysses when you talked about it's reputation of virtuosity being the one thing that has kept it in print. Critics & academics love it because it separates them from it's readers without requiring them to explain their position. Joyce's trick was to mess with several literary conventions in such a way that even his contemporary critics would have had to produce a critical masterpiece to explain their reasons for not liking it. Joyce & Anthony Burgess were so lost in their own accomplishments & egoes that they became more concerned with making asses of the critics than writing for the masses. I'm 60 & have tried Ulysses 4 times at different stages of my life, and never gone beyond 30 pages. The only question it left me with was: 'Why would I want to pursue it, unless to brag that I had & pretend to all & sundry that I understood it. Congratulations on giving up.
Hi Nathan: I actually did like Ulysses, which is a good thing since I had to read it 3 times for different courses when I was an undergrad :DI liked the book list: I read 63 out of the 110.
Of course, being me, I was hoping to score higher.
But still, this gives me something to shoot for. Should I ever be overwhelmed to read about the Peloponnesian Wars, it will be waiting for me.
btw-I don't believe any more in reading to impress people so I'm kind of glad I did a lot of heavy reading when I was young. I may never to more than cozies again. My time is too valuable & there's so much fun to be had out there that I just don't read for the equivalence of lifting weights or oral hygiene any more.
I was going to do a side by side read of Ulysses and The Odyssey this year. I haven't done that with yet- read the two at the same time and compare them chapter by chapter.
I read 94 of the books. But some of the choices do seem a little odd. And why so much Jacqueline Wilson?
David, giving up on Ulysses is one of the more upsetting aspects of my literary life. While I've put more than a few books down, it was usually because there was something I didn't like about them. With Ulysses, it's not that I don't like it, it's that I don't understand it, and that irks me. Like Ellie said, I kind of think of it as a heavy lifting book. I WANT to read it in the same way I WANT to run a marathon, but being that I have trouble running a mile without a smoke break and maybe a nap, both seem equally out of my grasp.
Kristi wrote: "Ha ha! I will, thank you! Thanks for posting up the lists. I went to my FB page and did a few more. It was fun! Now I'm getting to see what my "real world" friends' scores are. It's neat!"Hi Kristi. I think it's fun to look at the lists and see how many books I've read. On the downside I always have to add more books to my TBR list. Isn't being a book addict great?
marbear
Ellie wrote: "I read 94 of the books. But some of the choices do seem a little odd. And why so much Jacqueline Wilson?"Hi Ellie. I really would like to know how they pick the books that makes these lists. LOL!
marbear
45 / 200 that's a little over a fifth :D I'm proud of myself, and all that in less than 15 years!! that's ruffly 3 books a year :P
Nathan wrote: "David, giving up on Ulysses is one of the more upsetting aspects of my literary life. While I've put more than a few books down, it was usually because there was something I didn't like about them..."Have you read Ulysses in conjunction with The Odyssey? You can match it up chapter by chapter. In other words, what happens in book 1 of the Odyssey happens in book 1 of Ulysses. The names, setting, etc. might be different, but it's the "same" story.
at least 41. there's a few of the jacqueline wilson ones i'm not sure about. i remember i read a lot of them from the school library but having a blank with some
I've read 55 out of the 200, with most of those in the top 100. About half the ones I haven't read are on my TBR list.For the novel 100, I've only read 16.
Hi all. I was looking at my original post and it said I'd only read 10 of the books listed. That just didn't sound right. I've really read 32. Wonder where I got 10 from? LOL! Still have quite of few of the books on my TBR list. Vikki and Anna. Great job that you've read that many off the list.marbear
I've read 18 out of the original 100 and, thanks to the sheer number of Terry Pratchett books, I've read 64 from the second list of 200.
marbear