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[collwen]

The BBC had an online poll asking people to list their favorite novels. This is the list they compiled. I've split it between the books I've read the books I've not read:

The one's I've read:
1984, George Orwell
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Dune, Frank Herbert
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett And Neil Gaiman
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, Jk Rowling
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, Jk Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Jk Rowling
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Stand, Stephen King
The Thorn Birds, Colleen Mccollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

The one's I've not read:
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The Bfg, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis De Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, Jd Salinger
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, Jk Rowling
His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-The-Pooh, AA Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

Wow... there's a number of classics I need to catch up on

Comments

[pendraco.livejournal.com]

goodness... I seem to have read quite a few of these. We shall have to compare notes... Pride and Prejuidice is WONDERFUL. If you liked Good Omens, you should read The Road to Mars, by Eric Idle. DO NOT read Clan of the Cavebear. Most God-awful piece of trash ever. But then, that's my (admittedly quite snobbish) opinion. :)

[rubythered.livejournal.com]

I never got into Pride and Predjudice. I tried it, honest... but it sounded no different than Sense and Sensibility, which I'd already read. I understand that Jane Austin is a really contested author. There are those who completely enjoy the world picture she paints and her humerous portrayals of courtships... but there are those who say she just rewrote the same junky novel four different times. Personally, I found Sense and Sensibility fun... and I was enjoying the beginnings of Pride and Pedjudice. Unfortunately, I put it down one day and didn't pick it up again. I guess I was tired with the subtle graces of that era.

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[collwen.livejournal.com]

I've not read any Jane Austin that I can think of...

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[collwen.livejournal.com]

I've read parts of Clan of the Cavebear. Ironically, a good friend of mine apparently got some of his sex education from that series, and considers himself to have gotten some good things from it. And considering he is good at sex and sensuality, I'm wondering what happened!

(and it is Gods-awful)

They're not all classics.

[apotimber.livejournal.com]

It's an opinion poll. There are several dozen novels which I'd consider classics that aren't on that list at all. Besides, it's a British poll. Just means you're not a well read Brit. I wonder what the American list would look like. =)

Re: They're not all classics.

[collwen.livejournal.com]

It would be interesting... then again, I'm not sure how broadly read of an American I am...