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LiziG

From Potters Bar, Hertfordshire United Kingdom
Age 40
Joined Tuesday, March 14, 2006
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I finally get back! I'm not going to list on here my "read this year" because I can't keep updating it every couple of days, and it's all listed, with comments, on my homepage forum (www.ladiesbehave.com)

I'm still working my way through those books I haven't read from the BBC top 100 list...(I know, it's old, and I've read loads of them already, but I like lists!)
The list, and what I've read

1.TBR The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien-never read completely, so I'll have another go!
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen-Read, thank you ababaigalit! Absolutely LOVE this book.
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman-read, thought it was very good
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams-read it, loved it
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling-of course I've read it!
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - love it
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne-I LOVE WINNIE THE POOH!
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell-thought this was excellent, and can see it happening every day!
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis-erm, yes, much
10.TBR Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11.TBR Catch-22, Joseph Heller-had a go once and thought it was a bit of a boy book but it's on my shelf waiting
12.TBR Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13.TBR Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier-one of my all time favourite reads, thank you Nanny!
15.TBR The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame-lovely lovely
17.TBR Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott-my absolute favourite book, without a doubt
19.Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres-Much better than I expected it to be, but it took me a while to get into it.
20.TBR War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy-this might be a challenge!
21.TBR Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling-yep
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling-yep
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling-yep
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien-brilliant book-not sure why I love this so much and can't get through LOTR
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy-made me cry
27.TBR Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving - ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck, very very good, but horribly sad.
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll-read it liked it
31.TBR The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32.TBR One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett-superb book, highly recommended
34.TBR David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl-yep
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson-yep
37.TBR A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38.TBR Persuasion, Jane Austen
39.TBR Dune, Frank Herbert
40.TBR Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery-love this
42.TBR Watership Down, Richard Adams
43.TBR The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44.TBR The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45.TBR Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell-another brilliant book
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens-yep
48.TBR Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy-another one I've started but not finished-but I'd read Jude and Tess already that week and was all Hardy'd out
49.TBR Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50.TBR The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett-another favourite
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck - very very good
53.TBR The Stand, Stephen King
54.TBR Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55.TBR A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl-many times
57.TBR Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58.TBR Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer - not as good as Harry Potter if it's kids books you're after
60.TBR Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61.TBR Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden-not as good as it was hyped to be
63.TBR A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64.TBR The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett-love Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton-love this even though I read it without the first ten pages for the first few years
67.TBE The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman-yep
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett-yep
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding-repeatedly, and no, not just for school-I'd already read it five or six times by then!
71.TBR Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72.TBR The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett-yep
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl-many times
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding-yes but I don't rate it all that highly if I'm honest
76.TBR The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77.TBR The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78.TBR Ulysses, James Joyce
79.TBR Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80.TBR Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl-repeatedly
82.TBR I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83.TBR Holes, Louis Sachar
84.TBR Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85.TBR The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86.TBR Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87.TBR Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88.TBR Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89.TBR Magician, Raymond E Feist
90.TBR On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91.TBR The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92.TBE The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett-many times
94.TBR The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95.TBR Katherine, Anya Seton
96.TBR Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97.TBR Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98.TBR Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99.TBR The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100.Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie - I read as much as I'm ever likely to.

So I've already read quite a lot of the books right through, but I'll be working my way through them bit by bit and reviewing each on my homepage forum.

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