The BBC Big Read

Keeping track of the books I’ve read so far from the BBC Big Read’s top 200 for my list of 35 things to do before turning 35. You can see a list of the ones I had read before starting the challenge here. I have to read 132 books to complete the challenge. Where I’ve written a review, you can get to the blog post by clicking on the book title.

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
3. Emma by Jane Austen
4. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (So far only book one,  The Golden Compass/ Northern Lights, and book two, The Subtle Knife)
5. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
6. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulk
7. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
8. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
9. The Beach by Alex Garland
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
11. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
12. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
13. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafón
14. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by  Louis de Bernières
15. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
16. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
17. Holes by Louis Sachar
18. The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
19. The Dare Game (Tracy Beaker Book 2) by Jacqueline Wilson
20. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
21. Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
22. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
23. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
24. Possession by A. S. Byatt
25. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
26. The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson
27. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
28. Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson
29. The Magus by John Fowles
30. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
31. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
32. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
33. Papillon by Henri Charrière
34. The Diary of a Nobody by G. and W. Grossmith
35. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
36. Shogun by James Clavell
37. Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson
38. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
39. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
40. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
41. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
42. The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
43. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
44. Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson
45. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
46. Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
47. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
48. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
49. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
50. The Stand by Stephen King
51. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
52. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
53. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
54. Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
55. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
56. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
57. Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
58. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
59. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
60. Magician by Raymond E. Feist
61. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
62. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
63. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach
64. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
65. Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
66. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
67. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
68. Midnight’s Children by Salmen Rushdie
69. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

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