The Big Read

As part of my 101 things to do in 1001 days challenge, I decided to add a challenge that would include reading a lot of books.  After searching this internet for books the world thought I should have read by now at my age, I came across the BBC'S The Big Read challenge.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/

The list is below, and the highlighted sections show books that I have completed and reviewed.

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        Review
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. Witches- Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web- E. B. White     Review 
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