The Big Read

A survey done by the BBC in 2003 to find the nation's favourite books. Once I'd seen the top 100 I made it my intention to read them all, so that I'd have read the most famous classics.
==The Top 100==
#The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien - READ
#Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen - READ
#His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman - READ
#The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams - READ
#Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling - READ
#To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - READ
#Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne
#Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell - READ
#The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis
#Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
#Catch-22, Joseph Heller
#Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë - READ (or at least tried to)
#Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
#Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
#The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger - READ
#The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
#Great Expectations, Charles Dickens - READ
#Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
#Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
#War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
#Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
#Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling - READ
#Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, J. K. Rowling - READ
#Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling - READ
#The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien - READ
#Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy - READ
#Middlemarch, George Eliot
#A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
#The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
#Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
#The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
#One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
#The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
#David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
#Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl - READ
#Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
#A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
#Persuasion, Jane Austen
#Dune, Frank Herbert - READ
#Emma, Jane Austen
#Anne Of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery
#Watership Down, Richard Adams - READ
#The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
#The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
#Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
#Animal Farm, George Orwell - READ
#A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
#Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
#Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian - READ
#The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
#The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
#Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
#The Stand, Stephen King - READ
#Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
#A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
#The BFG, Roald Dahl
#Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
#Black Beauty, Anna Sewell - READ
#Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
#Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
#Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden - READ
#A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
#The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
#Mort, Terry Pratchett
#The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
#The Magus, John Fowles
#Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
#Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
#Lord Of The Flies, William Golding - READ
#Perfume, Patrick Süskind
#The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
#Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
#Matilda, Roald Dahl
#Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
#The Secret History, Donna Tartt
#The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
#Ulysses, James Joyce
#Bleak House, Charles Dickens - ATTEMPTED
#Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
#The Twits, Roald Dahl - READ
#I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
#Holes, Louis Sachar
#Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
#The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
#Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
#Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
#Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
#Magician, Raymond E. Feist - READ
#On The Road, Jack Kerouac
#The Godfather, Mario Puzo
#The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
#The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett - READ
#The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
#Katherine, Anya Seton
#Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
#Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
#Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
#The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
#Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
==Links and references==
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml (the BBC page itself)
Category:Lists