BBC's "The Big Read - Books 1-100"

Might i suggest
“The last of the Mohicans”
by James Fenimore Cooper

and “The Day of the Trifids”
and “The Chrysalids”
-cant remember the author and i am to lazy to go look at it upstairs. lol

I love that Katherine made this list! Yay!

Here is a list of REALLY good books in my opinion. I am giving this list for any ones interest. I do not want to step on any toes.
The first set are fact, factual or philosophy:
Adrift – 76 days lost at sea
Ann Frank
Ascent of man, the
Getting through-How to make words work
Maiden voyage
Modoc
Polar Dream
Siddhartha
Story tellers daughter, the
Sophies world
Structures
Tales from a suitcase
Theo’s odyssey
World according to Clarkson, the
Worst case survival handbook, the

FICTION:
Alchemist, the
Da vinci code
Devils teardrop, the
Eight, the
Jock of the bushveld
Rainmaker, the (and other John Grisham)
Temple
Vanished man, the
Watershipdown
Zero game, the

These are the books that made the biggest impression.

Enjoy…

If, after reading this list you think that you know of a book that I would like to read please email me at: lizhuet@lycos.com
or if you want some more info about any of the books mentioned I will try and help in any way.

what a weird list. What is Harry Potter doing there? or Terry Pratchett for that matter.

I can’t believe Terry Pratchett is on this list. Ugghh!

This list misses some really big names! Where’s Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”, the second most influential book after the Bible (http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2002-09-23-ayn-rand_x.htm)?

And where are the Mars trilogy, Asimov’s Foundation series?

Any Nebula prize winner except for Dune? Nope.

Lots of Pulitzer Prize winning novels are also missing.

Someone has deleted Girls in Love (no. 98) and Bridget Jonses’s Diary (no. 75). I don’t have time to add them back and fix the order right now – can someone please do it?

I tried to create a list of books 101-200…it didn’t quite work out, can someone please help me fix it? Thank you very much!

here is the source

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top200.shtml

Someone had removed His Dark Materials. I readded and fixed a few small order problems.

Moved Lord of the Rings back to its no. 1 spot, as someone had moved it to no. 45.

It seems someone also saw fit to demote His Dark Materials, and several of the Harry Potter books.

PLEASE don’t alter definitive lists from the source. I don’t think Lord of the Rings is the best book on this list either, but the whole point of this list is that it’s the BBC top 100, not a personal top 100.