Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The Book List

Here is the book list of the Reader's Top 50. Well I'm only going to do 49.....Sorry...I refuse to read the Enlish Dictionary (#24!!)

1. 1984 - George Orwell
2. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (bought)
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (bought & reading)
6. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Animal Farm - George Orwell
9. Lord of The Flies - William Golding
10. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
11. His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman
12. The Bible
13. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
14. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
15. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
16. The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
17. The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
18. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
20. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
21. A Brief History of Time - Stephen W. Hawking
22. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
23. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
24. The English Dictionary
25. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
26. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
27. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
31. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
32. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
33. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
34. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkes
35. The Outsider - Albert Camus
36. Memoirs of Geisha - Arthur Golden
37. The War of the Worlds - HG Wells
38. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
39. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
40. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
41. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
42. The Science of teh Discworld - Terry Prattchett
43. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
44. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
45. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
46. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
47. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
48. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
49. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
50. A Child Called It - Dave Pelzer

2 comments:

  1. HUN get a libary card! I'll be cheaper then buying all these books! Also a child called it you have to read the whole series I read them when I was younger such a sad but inspiring series.

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  2. I got a library card last night!!! I just wanted to own most of these books anyways.

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