Sunday, November 27, 2011

The BBC List

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - William Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martell
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On the Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson
74 Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie & the Chocolate factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Books Read in 2011/2012 (One Year)

The following books have been read from February 1st 2011 to January 31st 2012. On this list as time goes on the blank spots will be filled with other books from the series. Some of these are juvenile fiction books as I have read them to my son. Even so all but 3 books on this list are over 200 pages small print.

  1. The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
  2. The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket
  3. The Wide Window - Lemony Snicket
  4. The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket
  5. The Austere Academy - Lemony Snicket
  6. The Ersatz Elevator - Lemony Snicket
  7. The Vile Village - Lemony Snicket
  8. The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket
  9. The Carnivorous Circus - Lemony Snicket
  10. The Slippery Slope Lemony Snicket
  11. The Grim Grotto - Lemony Snicket
  12. The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket
  13. The End - Lemony Snicket
  14. A living Nightmare – Darren Shan
  15. The Vampire’s Assistant - Darren Shan
  16. Tunnels of Blood - Darren Shan
  17. Vampire Mountain - Darren Shan
  18. Trials of Death - Darren Shan
  19. The Vampire Prince - Darren Shan
  20. Hunters of the Dusk - Darren Shan
  21. Allies of the Night - Darren Shan
  22. Killers of the Dawn - Darren Shan
  23. The Lake of Souls - Darren Shan
  24. Lord of the Shadows – Darren Shan
  25. Sons of Destiny - Darren Shan
  26. Where Freedom Grows – Bonnie Leon
  27. In Fields of Freedom – Bonnie Leon
  28. Harvest of Truth – Bonnie Leon
  29. The Exiles – Gilbert Morris and Lynn Morris
  30. The Immortelles - Gilbert Morris and Lynn Morris
  31. The Alchemy - Gilbert Morris and Lynn Morris
  32. The Tapestry - Gilbert Morris and Lynn Morris
  33. The Honorable Imposter - Gilbert Morris
  34. The Captive Bride - Gilbert Morris
  35. The Indentured Heart - Gilbert Morris
  36. The Gentle Rebel - Gilbert Morris
  37. The Saintly Buccaneer - Gilbert Morris
  38. The Holy Warrior - Gilbert Morris
  39. The Reluctant Bridegroom - Gilbert Morris
  40. The Last Confederate - Gilbert Morris
  41. The Dixie Widow - Gilbert Morris
  42. The Wounded Yankee - Gilbert Morris
  43. The Union Belle - Gilbert Morris
  44. The Final Adversary - Gilbert Morris
  45. The Crossed Sabres - Gilbert Morris
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  73. Family Storms – V.C. Andrews
  74. The Magician’s Nephew - C.S. Lewis
  75. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
  76. The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis
  77. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
  78. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis
  79. The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis
  80. The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis
  81. The Thorn - Beverly Lewis
  82. The Judgment – Beverly Lewis
  83. The Host – Stephenie Meyer
  84. Delia’s Crossing - V.C. Andrews
  85. Delia’s Heart - V.C. Andrews
  86. Delia’s Gift - V.C. Andrews
  87. The Initiation - L.J. Smith
  88. The Captive - L.J. Smith
  89. The Power - L.J. Smith
  90. The Last Vampire - Christopher Pike
  91. Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead
  92. Frostbite - Richelle Mead
  93. Shadow Kiss - Richelle Mead
  94. Blood Promise - Richelle Mead
  95. Spirit Bound - Richelle Mead
  96. Last Sacrifice - Richelle Mead
  97. Lydia’s Charm - Wanda E. Brunstetter
  98. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang - Chelsea Handler
  99. Marked - P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
  100. Betrayed - P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
  101. Chosen - P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
  102. Untamed - P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
  103. Hunted - P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

Books Read in 2010/2011 (One Year)



Books were read from March 19th, 2010 to January 30th 2011

1. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
2.Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
3.New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
4.Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
5.Butterfly - Kathryn Harvey
6.The Shrouded Walls - Susan Howatch
7.The Waiting Sands - Susan Howatch
8.April's Grave - Susan Howatch
9.Where are the children - Mary Higgins Clark
10.The Cradle Will Fall - Mary Higgins Clark
11.The Green Mile - Stephen King
12.Weep no more,my lady - Mary Higgins Clark
13.Stillwatch -Mary Higgins Clark
14.A cry in the night - Mary Higgins Clark
15. A stranger is watching - Mary Higgins Clark
16.Edge of Danger - Jack Higgins
17.Fame - Karen Kingsbury
18.Forgiven - Karen Kingsbury
19.Found - Karen Kingsbury
20.Family - Karen Kingsbury
21.Forever - Karen Kingsbury
22.Secret Vampire - L.J. Smith
23.Daughters of Darkness - L.J. Smith
24.Spellbinder - L.J. Smith
25.Dark Angel - L.J. Smith
26.The Chosen - L.J. Smith
27.Soulmate - L.J. Smith
28.Huntress - L.J. Smith
29.Black Dawn - L.J. Smith
30.Witchlight - L.J. Smith
31.The girl with the Dragon tattoo - Stieg Larsson
32.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
33.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
34.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
35.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
36.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
37.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
38.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
39.The Secret - Beverly Lewis
40.The Missing - Beverly Lewis
41.The Telling - Beverly Lewis
42.To Love Anew - Bonnie Leon
43.Longings Of The Heart - Bonnie Leon
44.The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
45.Enduring Love - Bonnie Leon
46.Sunrise - Karen Kingsbury
47.Summer - Karen Kingsbury
48.Someday - Karen Kingsbury
49.Sunset - Karen Kingsbury
50. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
51.Redemption - Karen Kingsbury
52.Remember - Karen Kingsbury
53.Return - Karen Kingsbury
54.Rejoice - Karen Kingsbury
55.Reunion - Karen Kingsbury
56.The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff
57.A Beautiful Boy - David Sheff
58.Wicked Pleasures - Cecilia Tan
59.Sagittarius:Open Heart, Open Mind - Sephera Giron
60.The Diary Of Anne Frank (play) -Frances Goodrich
61.Cheaper By The Dozen -Frank B. Gilbreth
62.Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
63.Charlie and The Chocolate Factory -Ronald Dahl
64.Charmed Life - Dianne Wynne Jones
65.The Magicians of Caprona - Dianne Wynne Jones
66.Witch Week - Dianne Wynne Jones
67.The Lives of Christopher Chant - Dianne Wynne Jones
68.Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
69.Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
70.The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
71. Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
72.Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
73.The Diary Of A Young Girl - Anne Frank
74.Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder
75. Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
76.Anne Of Green Gables - L.M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
77.The short second life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer
78.Anne of Avonlea - L.M. Montgomery
79.Anne of the Island - L.M. Montgomery
80.Anne of Windy Poplars - L.M. Montgomery
81.Anne's House of Dreams - L.M. Montgomery
82.Anne of Ingleside - L.M. Montgomery
83.Rainbow Valley - L.M. Montgomery
84.Rilla Of Ingleside - L.M. Montgomery.
85.Multiple Bles8ings - Gosselin/Carson
86.Sea Swept - Nora Roberts
87.Rising Tides - Nora Roberts
88.Inner Harbor - Nora Roberts
89.Chesapeake Blue - Nora Roberts
90.The Heavenstone Secrets - V.C. Andrews

91.Secret Whispers - V.C. Andrews
92.Unlocked - Karen Kingsbury
93.Waiting for Morning - Karen Kingsbury
94. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
95. A moment of weakness - Karen Kingsbury
96. Halfway to forever - Karen Kingsbury
97. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
98. Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice
99. The Crush - Sandra Brown
100. The Heiress - Janet Dailey