Books to read:
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
- Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
- Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
- Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
- Magician, Raymond E Feist
- Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
- Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
- On The Road, Jack Kerouac
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
- Perfume, Patrick Süskind
- The BFG, Roald Dahl
- The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
- The Magus, John Fowles
- The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt
- The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Twits, Roald Dahl
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
Books I’ve read thus far:
- A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
- A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
- Holes, Louis Sachar
- I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
- Katherine, Anya Seton
- Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
- Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Matilda, Roald Dahl
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- Mort, Terry Pratchett
- Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
- The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Decided not to finish (see rule #2):
- A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
- Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Book I’m not going to read because I don’t like gratuitous violence and besides I’ve never heard even one of my reliable sources say they enjoyed it:
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Books I read before this began:
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
- Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Emma, Jane Austen
- Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
- 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 series, Philip Pullman
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
- The Lord of the Rings series, JRR Tolkien
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Stand, Stephen King
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
