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
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 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
4 comments:
C'mon, no one *really* likes anything by Charles Dickens or the Brontes. That list is jacked.
Having taught Tale of Two Cities, I must agree with Garret. Lotta people trying to sound smart and sensitive. You are building a far better list on your own. Really, do you want to have ALL the Harry Potters on a "greats" list? Ugh
You beat me by one. I've read thirty five of them, most of them the kids books. In this lists favor it lists most of Dahl's books and is their any greater author? I submit that there is not. Anyone who has read Matilda and the BFG would have to agree.
I agree with all previous comments about Charles Dickens, though not the Brontes. Anyway, why spend your time reading those books when you can read Mary Stewart and literary masterpieces such as "Mr. Darcy's Daughters"?
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