For people not in the UK that had no idea what we were talking about in an earlier thread:

1984 - George Orwell
The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
The BFG - Roald Dahl
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22 - Joseph L Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Charlie & Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Crime and Punishment - Fyoder Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
Dune - Frank Herbert
Emma - Jane Austen
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Girls in Love - Jacqueline Wilson
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peak
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Holes - Louis Sacher
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
Katherine - Anya Seton
The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe - CS Lewis
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
Magician - Raymond E Feist
The Magus - John Fowles
Matilda - Roald Dahl
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Middlemarch - George Elliot
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Nightwatch - Terry Pratchett
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History - Donna Tart
The Shell Seekers - Rosamund Pilcher
The Stand - Stephen King
The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits - Roald Dahl
Ulysses - James Joyce
Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte


I have read 32 and seen films or tv series of 9 that I haven't read so i have 41% of the list that i know what it is about... (there is more I know about but wouldn't want to read...)

Apparently 71 of these books have had film of TV adaptation.

at least there are some American writers in there <grin!>

I can't believe how many of those I've actually read...and then I can't believe how many of those I HAVEN'T read! But for the most part, if I haven't read them, I've seen the movie adaptation. And if it weren't for all the Pratchett books on there, I'd have seen almost all them as movies! LOL

it seems a good list:-)

I've read 41%, own 30%, have watched in some form or another 53% and havent heard of 20%

I'll be interested in learning more about the 20% I dont know

Andrea
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actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

I've read 37 (and half of Ulysses), own but not yet read 2, seen 2 more on film/TV, and have never heard of 19. Who the hell is Jacqueline Wilson?



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I've just looked her up, she writes kids books, I wondered who she was till I realised she was responsible for tracey beaker (on kids tv)

I was stunned 4 books and I didn't know her :-)



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actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

I've read 36 of the books and seen film/tv adaptations of 5 more. The ones I've read are mostly either classics, or children's, and there are a few authors there whom I've read, but not that particular book. For Dumas, I've read 'The Three Musketeers', but not 'The Count Of Monte Christo', which is the one on the list.

Jacqueline Wilson is massive with kids, we had a signing with her a few weeks ago and it was hell (put me off pre teenage girls for ages)

The one we were more amazed at work is "Katherine" .- it's some sort of mushy romance saga type book! eeek!

I'm rather surprised '3 Men In a Boat' didn't make it. No P G Wodehouse, either.

I'm so far behind on my reading, partly owing to an allergy to Dickens... Could only claim to have read 28, although I've started and given up on at least five others...



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I've only come across and read so many because of uni then work.

I think there should be 100 worst books too, I'd vote for Ulyses, and vote, and vote, and vote, and vote, and vote, and vote

umm yes I detest that book.

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actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

I've read 41 of those... yes, including "Ulysses", which I ploughed through in the forlorn hope that it might actually get any better.

It didn't. Make that another 10 votes against it from me!

Incidentally, I was rather surprised (and pleased) to see that Dodie Smith's "I Capture The Castle" made it onto the list. It's for teenage girls really, but it's still a good read. I hadn't heard of it until a visit to my parents about a year ago, when Mum dug out a copy from somewhere and lent it to me because she thought I might be interested. I expect it's out of print now, though.



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Sarah

I capture the castle is not out of print... it even has a film out now!

Sadly, I've only read 28 of them myself also. However, I've read none of the Terry Pratchet books, and a friend has just agreed to lend me a bunch of them, so that should help. (This is the same friend who read all the Dortmunder books after I did--we exchange books a lot.)



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I have this love hate thing with Ulysses .... the opening chapters are amazing; you can see and hear everything Stephen and Leopold see and hear, and listen to all their thoughts, and it really is the nearest you will ever get to being inside someone else's head. And the closing monologue is another tour de force of representing thought, and very powerful and moving too. But the 800 pages in between are just Joyce showing off how clever he thinks he is, and his literary tricks get very tedious very quickly.

Mind you if you hate Ulysses what must you think of Finnegan's Wake?



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I've read 32, I think!

I really enjoyed Katherine. Yes its a romance, but well written and based on historical facts. Sometimes you don't want anything too heavy :-)

Its funny because now if you look up anything to do with John of Gaunt or Katherine Swynford on-line you will often find that the sources quote from the book, lots of people (rather worryingly) think it is the historical record! But its a good read, and inspired me to go to visit Kenilworth Castle for the day, where a lot of the book is set.

Sara x

Just typed up a long reply, pressed send and its disappeared, aarrgh!

As I was saying...

I really like Katherine, sorry, lol. Yes its a romantic saga, but its well written and based on historical records. It is about the love affair between Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, and what's funny is if you look them up on-line you will find a lot of sites just quote this book, as if it were the historical record. Still it did inspire me to go to Kenilworth Castle for the day, where much of the action is set.

I've read Finnegans Wake, have absolutly no memory of it whatsoever. I can remember more about the time I sat and read the postcode directory for Sheffield, an interesting read that one, it was an A4 pamphlet mum had made after taking the pages out of some phone book or something. I was on the last page before I realised what I was doing :-)

Has anyone else read anything wierd like that 'just because'?

Andrea
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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Hmmm, only 28% here too, oh well...



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i started reading Ulysses but then i moved to london and it was too heavy to bring... i think i read about 70 or 80 pages...

I've read 49 of them - including (oh I hate to say this) Kaen & Abel and The Thorn Birds. In my defence, I was very young at the time and I believe you have to read a lot to find out what is good and what is not.

Still think it a stupid idea though- Nation's favourite this and nation's favourite that - my friend put it very well in the paper this morning "because these polls receive extensive coverage in the media - thus gaining their sponsors valuable free publicity - they are, alas, unlikely to disappear."