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The books I've read are in bold.
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1984 - George Orwell
The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
The BFG - Roald Dahl
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22 - Joseph L Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Charlie & Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
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 - Alexander Dumas
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
Dune - Frank Herbert
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
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peak
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Holes - Louis Sacher
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
Katherine - Anya Seton
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
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 Elliot
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Nightwatch - Terry Pratchett
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
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 Meaney - John Irving
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers - Rosamund Pilcher
The Stand - Stephen King
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'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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What did this list come from? All I saw in the meme title was "BBC". If this is someone's "grestest books ever" list, I find it a little off-base. I mean, Harry Potter books are nicely written, clever, and fun, but they're hardly on par with books like 1984 or Lord of the Flies (as much as I did hate that book) or Crime and Punishment or anything by John Steinbeck.

And for that matter, this list is lacking a lot. Where are the books by Joseph Conrad? Or Ray Bradbury? Mary Shelley?

If they're doing children's books too, where is The Giver by Louis Lowry? Or The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson? Why isn't Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls on the list?!

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It's from a BBc Radio program survey. It's not final yet, the voting isn't over!

And yeah, where is Conrad?

And yeah, where is Conrad?

On Tom's bookshelf? Sorry, being silly. I'll shut up now and let you guys do the intellecutal thing. I'm sure there's some trash lying around that I could pretend to read.

Who's Clive Barker again ;)

On Tom's bookshelf?

Tom?

Hm... Mark Twain is absent too...

Who's Clive Barker again ;)

Ahh... Clive Barker. He did A Thief of Always... excellent children's horror story.

Tom is my housemate, sorry I was being silly.

I know who Clive Barker is NOW. Just a little joke between me and Rob. He was rather astounded when I didn't know who he was

Well, I've only read that one book. I tired to read Weaveworld but just couldn't get past the first 50 pages.

I think I may have read a short story of his a long time ago but I can barely remember

Try the Great And Secret Show

I mean, Harry Potter books are nicely written, clever, and fun, but they're hardly on par with books like 1984 or Lord of the Flies (as much as I did hate that book) or Crime and Punishment or anything by John Steinbeck.
I have to agree with you on the Potter books ... but they also list Gormenghast, LOTR, and Hitchhiker's Guide, so all's not lost ...

Hitchhiker's Guide is a parody, but it's so good it DESERVES to be on lists.

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