BBC's top 100 books

BBC's top 100 books 
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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

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 

Review: Sh*t My Dad Says

Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I loved this book because I think it's safe to say that everyone has at least one relative like Justin's dad outspoken, rude and sarcastic but with a good heart and you can tell throughout the book how much he loves his son. It was a great read, there was a lot of funny parts but there was also some subtle and not over the top really sweet father and son moments.

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Review: Goodnight Moon

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Reading the reviews of this book is actually quite worrying. I can’t say I saw anything deep and meaningful about the empty void of life or the abandonment issues shared by a young child. I did, however, think it was a cute story that would soothe a kid and help them get to sleep with the calming repetition of it all. So probably worth a try as a book to read to get a kid to sleep. Not the book I would pick to exam the flaws of human nature though.

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Review: How to Talk to Girls at Parties

How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Gotta say I didn’t think too much of this one. It was short and very weird. I think it was supposed to be funny but I can’t say I really thought it was. Just thought the story was based on a bad joke that women seem like they are from another planet and it kind of dragged to make that point.

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Review: Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between

Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between by Lauren Graham
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I loved this book I got the audiobook narrated by Lauren Graham herself and it definitely made it even better. (The only bit that sucked about the audiobook is she talks about all these pictures in the real book which I couldn't see)

Lauren comes off as being a lot like Lorelai Gilmore she seems to have a very similar fast-talking, witty sense of humor.

There is a super cute phone conversation with her and her dad too.

She comes across as very normal and down to earth like I imagine most people would just get along with her.

She has a very strong work ethic which she talks about a lot and it shows with all the many jobs she had working multiple jobs at a time just to earn the bare minimum to survive before she got her big acting break. Lauren comes across as super humble though and seems to appreciate all that she’s earned.

She talks about Hollywood and the crazy lengths female actresses have to go through she lists insane diets she’s heard about and how interviewers always want to know about her love life when most of the time it was very nonexistent.

She drops pearls of wisdom like this brilliant line, “Life doesn’t always spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it or it wouldn’t be called life it would be called Vending machine”

While talking about her now husband who she briefly dated before losing contact for years before they found their way back to each other.

She spends a lot of time talking about the Gilmore Girls and the new renewed season and you can see the love she has for all the cast and it just seems like a great show to work on. She talks about working on Parenthood with the same love of the cast and the show.
A must read for Gilmore Girl fans.


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