How Many Have You Read? III BBC LIST

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bordertangoman

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1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman ( This is funny)
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
 
Hmmm...all of these Top 100 Books lists are making me feel the need to read. So many good ideas...so many books that I've put off reading for too long.
 
23 here. This one has least amount of titles i recognized though. Other lists I always recognized most if not all of them, even if I hadn't read them.
 
some of my fave books there. crikey... i gotta count again??? <i'll be back when i've got the time, lol>
 
BTM's list

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Ms Smillas Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Don Quixote; Cervantes
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Gulliver’s Travels; Jonathon Swift
13. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Mark Twain
14. The Scarlet Letter; Nathaniel Hawthorne
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller; Italo Calvino
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting; Milan Kundera
24. The Summer Book ; Tove Jansson
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Dreamers; Knut Hamsung
28. Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. WhERE the Wild Things are; Maurice Sendak
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. Out Stealing Horses: Petterson, Per
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. Vermilion Sands; JG Ballard
38. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Wise Children Angela Carter
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. In Search of Lost Time; Marcel Proust
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. The Trial; Franz Kafka
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Day Lasts a Thousand Years; Chingiz Aitmatov
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Bottersnikes and Gumbles; S.A. Wakefield
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman ( This is funny)
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. The Adventures of Professor Branstawm; Norman Hunter
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Winnie The Pooh;
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. Pride aand Prejudice and Zombies
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
 
I think I counted

40 on BBC's list
33 on BTM's list--Lol on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies sandwiched in between Love in a Time of Cholera and Midnight's Children!
 
35 on the BBC list.

As this is the third of the book list threads I looked at, care to state the rationale for a book's inclusion on the BBC list, bordertangoman?
 
RickRS said:
35 on the BBC list.

As this is the third of the book list threads I looked at, care to state the rationale for a book's inclusion on the BBC list, bordertangoman?
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THAT's easy; it was in response to Radio 4 listeners* recommendations

(*Radio 4 listeners are an intellectual and free thinking elite, to which I belong,)

Hurrah for Radio 4 - it's not ashamed to be brainy
David Sexton
08.02.08

The controller of Radio 4 has spoken. Told by one of his own presenters, Jane Garvey, that there is "a massively middle-class bent to every programme on Radio 4", Mark Damazer came as close as any BBC head ever can these days to positively embracing the description.

The way he put it was this: "What has happened over the past 30 years is that the country has become infinitely more middle class than it used to be. Radio 4 is likely to hit that group a good deal more than any other group."

What this careful statement means is that the middle-class virtues - you know, respecting education, valuing civility, taking responsibility for one's own conduct, cherishing independence while rejoicing in family and community, aspiring to improvement without assuming any inherent superiority, curiosity, intelligence, hard work, decency, that sort of thing - are naturally those of Radio 4 listeners too. And that there need be no embarrassment about admitting it. If that's a bent, it's a great one to have.

Damazer has expressed concerns about some other aspects of the Radio 4 listeners' profile, dabbling in that mystical BBC jargon to talk of "striving for a wider range of colours, tones and textures". What that means is that he's a bit worried that the listeners come so predominantly from southern England and are so remarkably old, with an average age of 55. You could quite plausibly say that these characteristics correlate naturally with intelligence too - but that's too much to hope.

Still, here is a rare bird: a BBC executive concentrating on excellence, not demographics. When he took over the network, Damazer said that his chief concern was that Radio 4 should be "open to anybody who's interested in intelligent speech" - and that's the way he has run it. There are plenty of such people. The Lord's final offer to Abraham was to spare the city of Sodom if it contained just 10 righteous men. Radio 4 reaches 9.4 million each week; individual programmes can have audiences of more than two million. And there is nothing like it in broadcasting. Those who work in Radio 4 do it not to become famous or rich but because they believe in its distinction. The people who listen have chosen not to allow images to dominate but to value language and speech.

Our television is now an absurdly degraded mêlée of soaps, reality tussles, celebrity chefs and makeover shows. There is no consistent pursuit of anything better than audience figures. Radio 4 has plenty of faults - let's not mention Fi Glover's Saturday Live, the dreadful Woman's Hour dramas - but the central ethic remains unyielding. To be intelligent."
 
III BBC LIST :: 79 read, many of those multilpe times.
BTM's list :: 61 read.

Thank you for the lists. Now I have a few more good books to read.
 
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