You have to start somewhere - a list

[Penfold]

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

That'll be why there's such a diverse list then.

Are you interested in reading Wuthering Heights ? I'll start on that as it's sitting by my bedside.

[Benny]

Nothing to say we can't overlap (but no....not overly inclined other than I think I should).

[Penfold]

no, we should overlap on books we both want to read, that's the point.

[Gortex]

I like this idea and happy to join in and read some stuff but will warn am a lot slower reader. So I might opt for the audio book version seeing how I have subscription to audible and credits mounting up.

Which list is the latest?

[Benny]

Good stuff, we're off then. I'll update the list today and post it up, you can pick what you like from the list but realistically try and pick something you wouldn't normally if poss so we can get some variety in there. No real rules, overlapping is fine, I'll edit the top list as we strike them off. Overlap is good so we can have some arguments about how awful/good stuff is.

Jeebus, I've made it in life, I'm part of a book club

I'll do the list later today...

[smilodon]

I read the Great Gatsby and so am off the mark. As mentioned I'm reading the Game of Thrones books which are hard to put down so I'm not sure how well I'll do on this project. Also I'm totally allergic to paper books so if I cannot get it on my kindle there might be a problem ;-)

[Benny]

So far, these haven't been read by anyone;

14     Rebecca     Daphne du Maurier
18     Little Women     Louisa May Alcott
21     Gone with the Wind     Margaret Mitchell
28     A Prayer For Owen Meany     John Irving
29     The Grapes Of Wrath     John Steinbeck
31        
32     One Hundred Years Of Solitude     Gabriel García Márquez
33     The Pillars Of The Earth     Ken Follett
38     Persuasion     Jane Austen
41     Anne Of Green Gables     LM Montgomery
45     Brideshead Revisited     Evelyn Waugh
47     A Christmas Carol     Charles Dickens
49     Goodnight Mister Tom     Michelle Magorian
50     The Shell Seekers     Rosamunde Pilcher
53     The Stand     Stephen King
54     Anna Karenina     Leo Tolstoy
55     A Suitable Boy     Vikram Seth
59     Artemis Fowl     Eoin Colfer
60     Crime And Punishment     Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61     Noughts And Crosses     Malorie Blackman
62     Memoirs Of A Geisha     Arthur Golden
68     Good Omens     Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
70     Lord Of The Flies     William Golding
71     Perfume     Patrick Süskind
72     The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists     Robert Tressell
77     The Woman In White     Wilkie Collins
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
88     Cold Comfort Farm     Stella Gibbons
90     On The Road     Jack Kerouac
91     The Godfather     Mario Puzo
93     The Colour Of Magic     Terry Pratchett
94     The Alchemist     Paulo Coelho
95     Katherine     Anya Seton
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
105     Point Blanc     Anthony Horowitz
106     The Pickwick Papers     Charles Dickens
107     Stormbreaker     Anthony Horowitz
110     The Illustrated Mum     Jacqueline Wilson
113     The Cruel Sea     Nicholas Monsarrat
114     Les Misérables     Victor Hugo
116     The Dare Game     Jacqueline Wilson
117     Bad Girls     Jacqueline Wilson
118     The Picture Of Dorian Gray     Oscar Wilde
119     Shogun     James Clavell
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
127        
129     Possession     A S Byatt
130     The Master And Margarita     Mikhail Bulgakov
131     The Handmaid's Tale     Margaret Atwood
133     East Of Eden     John Steinbeck
136     The Color Purple     Alice Walker
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
144     It     Stephen King
146     The Green Mile     Stephen King
148     Men At Arms     Terry Pratchett
149     Master And Commander     Patrick O'Brian
150     Skeleton Key     Anthony Horowitz
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
160     Cross Stitch     Diana Gabaldon
161     Moby Dick     Herman Melville
163     Sunset Song     Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164     The Shipping News     Annie Proulx
165     The World According To Garp     John Irving
167     Girls Out Late     Jacqueline Wilson
168     The Far Pavilions    M M Kaye
170     Charlotte's Web    E B White
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
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
186     The Diary Of A Nobody     George and Weedon Grossmith
188     Goosebumps     R L Stine
189     Heidi     Johanna Spyri
191     The Unbearable Lightness of Being     Milan Kundera
193     The Truth     Terry Pratchett
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
       
       
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
12     Tom Jones     Henry Fielding
13     The Hunger Games    
14     One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich    
15     Weaveworld    
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

129 books to go. I need your list Gortex / Smilo, so if you're stuck for choice pick one of these.

Now we're off, Pen, what did you think of The Wasp Factory?

[b00n]

I would join in but I stalled halfway through Wheel of Time, so I'd need to finish those first, and that alone could take me a year or two. :blink:

[smilodon]

14     Rebecca     Daphne du Maurier
18     Little Women     Louisa May Alcott
21     Gone with the Wind     Margaret Mitchell
28     A Prayer For Owen Meany     John Irving
29     The Grapes Of Wrath     John Steinbeck
31        
32     One Hundred Years Of Solitude     Gabriel García Márquez
33     The Pillars Of The Earth     Ken Follett
38     Persuasion     Jane Austen
41     Anne Of Green Gables     LM Montgomery
45     Brideshead Revisited     Evelyn Waugh
47     A Christmas Carol     Charles Dickens read
49     Goodnight Mister Tom     Michelle Magorian
50     The Shell Seekers     Rosamunde Pilcher
53     The Stand     Stephen King read
54     Anna Karenina     Leo Tolstoy
55     A Suitable Boy     Vikram Seth
59     Artemis Fowl     Eoin Colfer
60     Crime And Punishment     Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61     Noughts And Crosses     Malorie Blackman
62     Memoirs Of A Geisha     Arthur Golden
68     Good Omens     Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
70     Lord Of The Flies     William Golding
71     Perfume     Patrick Süskind
72     The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists     Robert Tressell
77     The Woman In White     Wilkie Collins
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
88     Cold Comfort Farm     Stella Gibbons
90     On The Road     Jack Kerouac
91     The Godfather     Mario Puzo read
93     The Colour Of Magic     Terry Pratchett read
94     The Alchemist     Paulo Coelho
95     Katherine     Anya Seton
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 read
102     Small Gods     Terry Pratchett read
105     Point Blanc     Anthony Horowitz
106     The Pickwick Papers     Charles Dickens
107     Stormbreaker     Anthony Horowitz
110     The Illustrated Mum     Jacqueline Wilson
113     The Cruel Sea     Nicholas Monsarrat
114     Les Misérables     Victor Hugo
116     The Dare Game     Jacqueline Wilson
117     Bad Girls     Jacqueline Wilson
118     The Picture Of Dorian Gray     Oscar Wilde read
119     Shogun     James Clavell 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
127        
129     Possession     A S Byatt
130     The Master And Margarita     Mikhail Bulgakov
131     The Handmaid's Tale     Margaret Atwood read
133     East Of Eden     John Steinbeck
136     The Color Purple     Alice Walker
138     The Thirty-Nine Steps     John Buchan read but it's a belter so some one should read it
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
144     It     Stephen King read
146     The Green Mile     Stephen King
148     Men At Arms     Terry Pratchett read
149     Master And Commander     Patrick O'Brian
150     Skeleton Key     Anthony Horowitz
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
160     Cross Stitch     Diana Gabaldon
161     Moby Dick     Herman Melville read
163     Sunset Song     Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164     The Shipping News     Annie Proulx
165     The World According To Garp     John Irving
167     Girls Out Late     Jacqueline Wilson
168     The Far Pavilions    M M Kaye
170     Charlotte's Web    E B White
174     The Name Of The Rose     Umberto Eco read
175     Sophie's World     Jostein Gaarder
176     Dustbin Baby     Jacqueline Wilson
177     Fantastic Mr Fox     Roald Dahl
178     Lolita     Vladimir Nabokov
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
186     The Diary Of A Nobody     George and Weedon Grossmith
188     Goosebumps     R L Stine
189     Heidi     Johanna Spyri
191     The Unbearable Lightness of Being     Milan Kundera
193     The Truth     Terry Pratchett
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
       
       
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 read
10     The Secret Agent     Joseph Conrad
11     I CLAUDIUS     Robert Graves
12     Tom Jones     Henry Fielding
13     The Hunger Games    
14     One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich    
15     Weaveworld    
16     Marathon Man     William Goldman read
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                 

There you go

[Gortex]

I have decided to take the original list posted and added on the 20 books that Pen suggested and will be replacing some of the works which I have read with one of these 20. That having been said I am not a fan of poems so not sure about some of the books recommended so these might be substituted at some point.

I have started with Bleak House mainly due to the fact I already have it gathering dust and never actually read it. Am on chapter 4 so far and after a slow start it really has started to come alive and be a bit more interesting. I can see why Dickens is such a highly rated writer as his descriptions make me feel like I am literally stood in the room while it is all going on.

Once finished I will aim to tackle some of the other books which Benny, Smilo or Pen are working on so we can discus what we think of it. Yes this does feel like the first DMW book club even so much so I would suggest possibly creating a new folder/forum for this rather than us spamming and taking up the space in this section.

My list

Title      Author   Read???
1. The Lord of the Rings   ----------   JRR Tolkien   Read
2. Pride and Prejudice   ----------   Jane Austen   
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   
6. To Kill a Mockingbird   ----------   Lee Harper   
7. Winnie the Pooh   ----------   AA Milne   
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four   ----------   George Orwell   
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe   ----------   CS Lewis   Read
10. Jane Eyre   ----------   Charlotte Bronte   
11. Catch-22   ----------   Joseph Heller   
12. Wuthering Heights   ----------   Emily Bronte   Read
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   Read
17. Great Expectations   ----------   Charles Dickens   Read
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   Read
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   Read
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   Read
36. Treasure Island   ----------   Robert Louis Stevenson   Read
37. A Town Like Alice   ----------   Nevil Shute   
38. Persuasion   ----------   Jane Austen   
39. Dune   ----------   Frank Herbert   Read
40. Emma   ----------   Jane Austen   
41. Anne Of Green Gables   ----------   LM Montgomery   
42. Watership Down   ----------   Richard Adams   Read
43. The Great Gatsby   ----------   F Scott Fitzgerald   
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo   ----------   Alexandra Dumas   
45. Brideshead Revisited   ----------   Evelyn Waugh   
46. Animal Farm   ----------   George Orwell   
47. A Christmas Carol   ----------   Charles Dickens   Read
48. Far From The Madding Crowd   ----------   Thomas Hardy   
49. Goodnight Mister Tom   ----------   Michelle Magorian   
50. The Shell Seekers   ----------   Rosamuande Pilcher   
51. The Secret Garden   ----------   Frances Hodgson Burnett   Read
52. Of Mice And Men   ----------   John Steinbeck   
53. The Stand   ----------   Stephen King   Read
54. Anna Karenina   ----------   Leo Tolstoy   
55. A Suitable Boy   ----------   Vijram Seth   
56. The BFG   ----------   Roald Dahl   Read
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   Read
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   Read
71. Perfume   ----------   Patrick Suskind   
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists   ----------   Robert Tressell   
73. Night Watch   ----------   Terry Pratchett   
74. Matilda   ----------   Roald Dahl   Read
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   Read
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   Read
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear   ----------   Jean M Auel   
93. The Colour Of Magic   ----------   Terry Pratchett   Read
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   Read
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   ----------   Lain 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   Read
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   Read
133. East Of Eden   ----------   John Steinbeck   
134. George's Marvellous Medicine   ----------   Roald Dahl   Read
135. Wyrd Sisters   ----------   Terry Pratchett   Read
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   Read
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   Read
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   Read
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   Read
170. Charlotte's Web   ----------   E. B. White   Read
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   Read
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   
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   Read
198. The Once And Future King   ----------   T. H. White   
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar   ----------   Eric Carle   
200. Flowers In The Attic   ----------   Virginia Andrews   
1. The Dice Man, Luke Reinhart   ----------   Luke Reinhart   
2. Idylls   ----------   Theocritus of Syracuse   
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   
12. Tom Jones   ----------   Henry Fielding   
13. The Hunger Games   ----------   Suzanne Collins   
14. One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich   ----------   Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn   
15. Weaveworld   ----------   Clive Barker   
16. Marathon Man   ----------   William Goldman   
17. Selected Poems   ----------   John Donne   
18. Sophie's Choice   ----------   William Styron   
19. the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire   ----------   Edward Gibbon   
20. The Castle of Otranto   ----------   Horace Warpole   

[smilodon]

Started the Pickwick Paper's (free on Kindle). Very funny story and I didn't know it was Dickens first novel

[Benny]

That's a much better table than the excel I tried (and failed) to post. The thing I love about it is the sheer scale of it. Lists and lists of books you 'should' read and you never know when you'll uncover a gem!

http://www.upworthy.com/101-books-to-read-this-summer-instead-of-50-shades-of-grey?g=4

Great stuff. I'm sure we can set up a folder somewhere and if we all edit that table we're laughing. I'm still plodding through The Great Gatsby, it's ok, but it's dying off a bit, we'll see.

[Lameduck]

Started the Pickwick Paper's (free on Kindle). Very funny story and I didn't know it was Dickens first novel

Now there's a coincidence, just finished it. First book I read on my 'Nook'.
Also just finished in paperback 'The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared' by Jonas Jonasson.
The funniest 'read' I've had for years, with a fantastical well structured plot. Highly recommended.

[Benny]

One down...the great gatsby finished. Review to follow ..joy.. and i'll tidy up and sticky it

Sorry for format, from phone.

[Benny]

http://www.stanford.edu/~bkunde/best/bl-slibj.htm

Another list, I hate stumble upon! How are you lot doing?