The contemplations of a self-confessed bookworm.

I like to read (I'm an English student, it comes with the territory).

But I am on a mission.


In 2003 the BBC compiled a lost of the public’s top 200 books after taking a poll.

1. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
2. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
3. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
4. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
5. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
6. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling 
8. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman  
9. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams  
10. Jane Eyre - Chalotte Bronte
11. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis  
12. Little Women - Louisa may Alcott
13. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein
14. 1894 - George Orwell  
15. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
16. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier  
17. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
18. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
19. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame  
20. Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne  
21. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - J. K. Rowling  
23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling 
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling 
25. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkein  
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 Caroll  
31. The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson  
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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 - L. M. 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 - Rosamund 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 - Fydor 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 McCullough
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 Suskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda - Roald Dahl  
75. Bridget Jones’  Diary - Helen Fielding  
76. The Secret History - Donna Tart
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 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 Garcia Marquez
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 Oratchett
103. The Beach - Alex Garland
104. Dracula - Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc - Anthony Horrowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker - Anthony Horrowitz
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 - Sue Townsend  
113. The Cruel Sea - Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables - 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 Grey - Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun - James Clavell
120. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose - Jacqueline Wilson  
122. Vanity Fair - W. M. Thackery
123. The Forsyth Saga - John Galsworthy
124. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsoliver
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 Hand Maids Tale - Margaret Atwood
132. Danny 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 Colour Purple - Alice Walker
137. Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
138. The 39 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 - Henry Charrieree
148. Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett
149. Master and Commander - Patrick O’Brian
150. Skeleton Key - Anthony Horrowitz
151. Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
152. Thief of Time - Terry Practchett
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 Keesey  
158. Heart of the Darkness - Joseph Conrad
159. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch - Diana Gabalden
161. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
162. River God - Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song - Louis 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 Pavillions - M. M. Kay
169. The Witches - Roald Dahl  
170. Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White  
171. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 
172. They Used to Play on Grass - Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
174. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
175. Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarder
176. The Dustbin Baby - Jacqueline Wilson  
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl  
178. Lolita - Vladamir Nabakov  
179. Johnathon 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. Stein  
189. Heidi - Johanna Spyri
190. Sons and lovers - D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
192. Man and Boy - Tony Parsons
193. The Truth - Terry Pratchett
194. 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 One and Future King - T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle  
200. Flowers in the Attic - Virginia Andrews

I am going to read all of these books. I will not set myself a time limit, because I like to read for pleasure.

This blog is going to be where I keep my record, and review each book that I have read.

I will also perhaps review other books that I read, but I will always make it clear whether they're in this list or not. Oh, and I will probably review music and films too, but we'll see.

Wish me luck!

Vixter.