You have to start somewhere - a list

[Benny]

So having poked around here and there I'm going to undertake a project. I'm going to read this lot...
http://www.alistofbooks.com/   <----this list was heavy going....see repost further down making it more manageable.


I may given time blog my progress here, but we'll see. Anyone care to join me? I've started on The Great Gatsby, it's only 150 pages long so expect part 1 of the blog next week.....

The rules are, read the list, if you've read the book already and can remember it, you can skip it. There's nothing to say you can't read your own stuff in parallel, but it feels nice to achieve something. I reckon 623 books is about 2 years work taking into account I've read a few already, so this may be a dead end or a long project.....

[smilodon]

I'd have a go but I'm reading through the A Song of Ice and Fire series so I don't think I'll be able to manage some of the list. Good luck with book #11 1200+ pages

[Benny]

Already read the fellowship of boredom, so it's only the two towers and return on the yawn to go in that little trilogy. It's all the period gumpf I'm dreading. Jane Austen.....blurgh.

[b00n]

623 books and no Wheel of Time series? :blink:

[smilodon]

You could just punch yourself in the face each morning and then go read what you want. You'd get your dose of masochism and still be able to read a good book.:norty:

[Penfold]

Good luck with James Joyce - I still shudder over having that one on the degree finals.

I'm also not sure that George Elliot's Middlemarch is required reading. Just remember it was written by a girl (Mary Ann Evans) and it makes more sense .

If you're working your way through the classics - a bit of gothic literature is on the cards - The Castle of Otranto by Horace Warpole would make my list.

[Benny]

See, you're all jealous of my powerful commitment! This list is apparently a consolidated list of lots of others. By the looks a lot of middle class goons voting for what they think they should vote for. I'll give it a go and go off piste if I have to.

The more I think about it, the more I think I should have 'guest readers' in my project. Who will join I cry! You will need to be erudite and committed to writing fanciful reviews. Money cannot buy class so there will be no reward other than satisfaction.  Any takers? Smilo, Pen, Boon will you answer the call or will you return from whence you came in flouncy dresses and bustles.

Oh and I might change the list to this lot. http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml. It sounds less painful, still I am a man, on a mission from gog*.


*gog is like God but more atheist.

[Benny]

The target.....

I'm underway with number 43. I shall buy a 100 sided dice and decide the next by coin toss and dice roll. I'll finish Gatsby by Friday.

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
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
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews

[Penfold]

IN-line

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Read
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Read
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Read
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
Read
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Read
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
Read
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Read
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Read
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Read
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Read
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Read
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Read
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
Read
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Read
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Read
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Read
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Tried to several times. Given up
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Saw the movie, does that count?  
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Read
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Read
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
Read
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Read
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Done a dissertation on this one. Took me two reads to find out where she's 'raped'. Easy to miss.
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
Read but, really, all a bit too bucolic.
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Read
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
Are you jokinh. Tracy F'ing Beaker is the pikiest little skank around. Bone of contention in our house and banned.
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Read
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Done
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Read
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Read. Ohh loved it. must read again
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
Read
40. Emma, Jane Austen
Read
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
Read
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Read
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Read
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
Read
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Read
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
Read
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
Read
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Read
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
Read
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
Read (yes, I know, holiday bonkbuster read)
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
Read (the only TP book I've ever liked)
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Read. Favourite book as a child. Daughter currently reading it and other End Blyton's I had kept from childhood.
67. The Magus, John Fowles
Read it travelling round the Greek Islands which was the perfect setting.
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
Read
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
Read
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
Read
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Read
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
Read
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
Read
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Read it. Really enjoyed it once you get past the sexual narratives. A real Prehistoric Ken and Barbie but v readable. Preferred the second (Valley of the horses) and subsequent ones
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Read
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
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
Read
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
Read
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Read
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
Read
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
Read
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
:eyebrow:
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
Read
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
Read
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
Read
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
Read
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Read. The original Apocalypse Now
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
Read
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
Read. really liked this and the follow ons
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
Read
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Read
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
Umm is this about football..... perhaps not then.
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Read
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
Read
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence
Read
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
Read
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
Read
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
Read
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
Made me cry

I can't do Pratchett so my list would remove him. Also too many Jacqueline Wilson for my liking but good to try.

I have several others I need to read or to revisit

1. The Dice Man, Luke Reinhart  <--------- Read this you miserable git.
2. The Idylls of Theocritus
3. Metamorphoses, Ovid
4. The Monk, Matthew Lewis
5. The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius
6. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s   Court, Mark Twain
7. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
8. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
9. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
10. The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
11. I CLAUDIUS, Robert Graves (doing it in the ever-so brilliant Derek Jacobi stutter)
12. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
13. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
13. The Hunger Games (yes, I know).
14. One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
15. Weaveworld, can't remember
16. Marathon Man, William Goldman
17. Selected Poems, John Donne
18. Sophie's Choice
19. the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
20. The Castle of Otranto, Horace Warpole

more to follow

[Benny]

So, remove any we've both read, add in your additionals and we're there? Rule is we can add any more at that point but no more removals?

Are you in Pen? A concerted admin effort to catalogue the written word and post reviews about tripe?

[Penfold]

I'm not sure I've got the time or inclination to embark on such a literary quest tbh. I've got out of the habit of reading and it's not as though I commute or anything so have extended periods where I can sit and read. However, in support of your efforts, I'm happy to read selected works from the list if that would help.

I would also humbly submit that the list is fundamentally flawed in several places. I'm not sure where the original list was generated but I'd have some serious questions over the eligibility of some of these titles as worthy. Personally, I'd remove the children's books (Jacqueline Wilson, Dahl, Artemis Fowl etc. etc) and I don't like Terry Pratchett. I'll try one or two but reserve the right to forgo the rest.

However if you'll indulge me and let me know what you're reading and what's next I'll jump off and on as and when I can?

[Benny]

I'll do Pratchett and King in trade for some of the meatier tomes. Deal?

I'll recompile tomorrow and go from there. Tell you what though, The Great Gatsby is like reading a McDonald's strawberry thick shake. Oozing heavy sweet writing but difficult to get into as you know other flavours are better. I expect my reviewing to improve

[Penfold]

Heh I've edited my post and they've crossed. Please see my revision.

[Benny]

Oh and the list is bbc's big read....

[Benny]

Done! ....