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The Book Club Bible Book List - which ones have you read?
1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
5. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
7. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
8. Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
9. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
10. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
11. Any Human Heart by William Boyd
12. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
14. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
15. Wise Children by Angela Carter
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
17. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
18. What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
19. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
20. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
23. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
24. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
25. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
26. A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
27. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
28. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
29. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
30. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
32. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
33. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
35. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
36. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
37. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
38. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
39. The Secret River by Kate Grenville
40. Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
41. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
42. The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
43. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
44. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
45. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
46. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemmingway
47. This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes
48. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
49. Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
50. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
51. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
52. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
53. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
54. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
55. The Girls by Lori Lansens
56. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
57. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
58. Small Island by Andrea Levy
59. Atonement by Ian McEwan
60. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
61. s and Saints by Maile Meloy
62. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
63. Beloved by Toni Morrison
64. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
65. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
66. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
67. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
68.Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
69. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
71. Bel Canton by Ann Patchett
72. The Pact by Jodi Picoult
73. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
74. Vernon God Little by D. B. C. Pierre
75. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
76. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
77. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
78. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
79. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
80. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
81. Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
82. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
83. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
84. Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
85. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
86. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
87. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
88. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
89. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
90. The Colour by Rose Tremain
91. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
92. Marrying the Mistress by Joanna Trolliope
93. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
94. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
95. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
96. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
97. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
98. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
99. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
100. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Also featured in the guide are the following top ten lists:
Top Ten British and American Classics:
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
6. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
7. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
8. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
9. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
10. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Top Ten World Classics:
1. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
2. The Master and Margharita by Mikhail Bulgakov
3. The Outsider by Albert Camus
4. Cheri by Colette
5. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
8. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
9. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
10. My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Top Ten Quick Reads:
1. Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
2. An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
3. A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
4. The God Boy by Ian Cross
5. The Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle (three quick reads in one)
6. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
7. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
8. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
9. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Top Ten Challenging Reads:
1. Possession by A. S. Byatt
2. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
3. Ulysses by James Joyce
4. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
6. Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
7. How the Dead Live by Will Self
8. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
10. Germinal by Emile Zola
Top Ten Men's Books:
A study in 2006 showed that 80% of men interviewed had recently read a novel by a male author and many had trouble remembering the last time they read a book by a female author. Apparently some male book group members turn their noses up at books written by, or perceived to be aimed at, women. "So here is a list to satisfy those hunter-gatherers after more manly tomes":
1. Money by Martin Amis
2. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
3. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
4. From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming
5. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
6. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk ("contains the short story 'Guts', at the author readings of which more than sixty people are rumoured to have fainted")
7. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
8. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
9. Filth by Irvine Welsh
10. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Top Ten Non-Fiction Books
1. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
3. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
4 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis by Dave Eggers
5. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
6. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
7. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
8. If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
9. And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison
10. Longitude by Dava Sobel
Top Ten Books with a Younger Perspective:
1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
4. Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence
5. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
6. The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
7. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
8. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
9. Holes by Louis Sachar
10. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Top Ten Humorous Reads :
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
3. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
4. Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
5. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
6. The Bad Mother's Handbook by Kate Long
7. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
8. Anita and Me by Meera Syal
9. My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
10. Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (first full-length Jeeves novel)
Top Ten War Books:
1. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
2. The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
3. Strange Meeting by Susan Hill
4. Dispatches by Michael Herr
5. Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
6. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
7. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
8. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
9. The Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon
10. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Top Ten Crime Books:
1. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
2. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
3. Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
4. The Devil's Teardrop by Jeffrey Deaver
5. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
7. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
8. A Taste for Death by P. D. James
9. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
10. A Fatal Inversion by Ruth Rendell
Top Ten Gay Reads:
1.Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
2. Don Juan in the Village by Jane Delynn
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
5. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
6. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
7. 'Brokeback Mountain', Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
8. The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin
9. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
10. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Top Ten Cult Classics:
1. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
2. Cocaine Nights by J. G. Ballard
3. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
4. Generation X by Douglas Coupland
5. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (originally published as memoirs - the author was later revealed to have embellished chunks of the text).
6. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
7. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
8. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
9. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Top Ten Sci-Fi Books:
1. The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
2. Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
3. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
5. The Canopus in Argos series by Doris Lessing
6. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
7. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
8. The Humanoids by Jack Williamson
9. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
10. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Top Ten Chilling Reads:
1. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
2. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
3. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James
4. Host by Peter James
5. The Stand by Stephen King
6. Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
7. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
8. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
9. Dracula by Bram Stoker
10. Ring by Koji Suzuki
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Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10 |
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That's alot of lists!
I've now updated this list...
Of the main, Book Club Bible list I have:
Read 16:
3. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
7. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
29. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
30. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
48. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
69. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
72. The Pact by Jodi Picoult
78. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
82. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
83. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
100. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Have a further 7 on my tbr:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Have given up on 1:
Atonement by Ian McEwan
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2008 - 14
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We love lists 
. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - Read
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - Read
19. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - Read
22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres - Read
25. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - Read
26. A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore - Read
29. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - Read
36. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Read
41. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris - Read
45. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller - Read
55. The Girls by Lori Lansens - Read
57. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Read
64. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse - Read
69. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - Read
81. Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz - Read
82. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - Read
85. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver - Read
87. Sophie's Choice by William Styron - Read
88. Perfume by Patrick Suskind - Read
95. The Color Purple by Alice Walker - Read
96. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters - Read
100. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - Read
OWN
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
8. Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
9. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
15. Wise Children by Angela Carter
17. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
20. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
23. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
27. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
34. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
39. The Secret River by Kate Grenville
44. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
47. This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes
48. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
51. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
52. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
53. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
56. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
58. Small Island by Andrea Levy
59. Atonement by Ian McEwan
60. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
62. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
63. Beloved by Toni Morrison
66. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
67. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
68.Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
72. The Pact by Jodi Picoult
74. Vernon God Little by D. B. C. Pierre
75. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - Read
78. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
79. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
80. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
83. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
86. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
89. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
90. The Colour by Rose Tremain
91. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
98. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
99. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Top Ten British and American Classics:
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen own
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte read
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte own
5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens own
6. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy read
8. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck read
10. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton own
Top Ten Quick Reads
none
Top Ten World Classics:
1. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende own
2. The Master and Margharita by Mikhail Bulgakov own
3. The Outsider by Albert Camus own
6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky own
7. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert own
8. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg own
Top Ten Challenging Reads:
1. Possession by A. S. Byatt own
2. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco read
3. Ulysses by James Joyce own
4. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver own
6. Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak own
8. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth own
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy read
Top Ten Men's Books:
3. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis hated
5. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby own
10. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe own
Top Ten Non-Fiction Books
1. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom own
3. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang own
6. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller own
Top Ten Books with a Younger Perspective:
1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott read
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll read
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon own
6. The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman own
10. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith own
Top Ten Humorous Reads :
none
Top Ten War Books:
3. Strange Meeting by Susan Hill own
5. Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally read
8. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque own
10. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute read
Top Ten Crime Books:
2. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie read
3. Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell read
8. A Taste for Death by P. D. James read
10. A Fatal Inversion by Ruth Rendell own
Top Ten Gay Reads:
10. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson read
Top Ten Cult Classics:
8. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart own
9. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann read
Top Ten Sci-Fi Books:
7. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells read
10. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham read
Top Ten Chilling Reads:
2. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris read
5. The Stand by Stephen King read
7. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley own
8. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson own
9. Dracula by Bram Stoker read
10. Ring by Koji Suzuki own |
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I just love ticking things off a list or crossing them out
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| Glynis wrote: | The Book Club Bible Book List - which ones have you read?
5. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson - don't remember it but know I loved it.
12. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - Very memorable, still think about it.
13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - An ATF (all-time favourite)
19. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - a very special book, more than just a story.
22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres - loved it. Fantastic characters.
25. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - ATF
29. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - ATF I remember sitting up til the small hours to finish this. The book literally had me on the edge of the sofa.
30. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - ATF
31. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster - loved it
41. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris - didn't think much to this.
45. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller - Enjoyed
48. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Enjoyed it
53. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - I found this quite chilling.
56. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence - ATF, a favourite writer
57. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - ATF
59. Atonement by Ian McEwan - ATF
62. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - didn't enjoy this at all
69. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - excellent story
70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell - ATF
75. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - enjoyed
80. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger - ATF
82. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - didn't enjoy this
85. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver - very thought provoking
88. Perfume by Patrick Suskind - enjoyed
96. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters - loved it
Also featured in the guide are the following top ten lists:
Top Ten British and American Classics:
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - ATF
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - ATF
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - ATF
6. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - ATF
Top Ten World Classics:
3. The Outsider by Albert Camus - very thought-provoking.
Top Ten Quick Reads:
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark - great book
Top Ten Challenging Reads:
Have 4 TBR
Top Ten Men's Books:
A study in 2006 showed that 80% of men interviewed had recently read a novel by a male author and many had trouble remembering the last time they read a book by a female author. Apparently some male book group members turn their noses up at books written by, or perceived to be aimed at, women. "So here is a list to satisfy those hunter-gatherers after more manly tomes":
7. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons - don't remember this at all
9. Filth by Irvine Welsh - bizarre
Top Ten Non-Fiction Books
Two TBR
Top Ten Books with a Younger Perspective:
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - another I don't remember
6. The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman - enjoyed
10. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - I love this book. The ending is wonderful.
Top Ten Humorous Reads :
2. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis - this is great. I love these funny, typically English, classics.
6. The Bad Mother's Handbook by Kate Long - not a fan of this book
Top Ten War Books:
Read none.
Top Ten Crime Books:
Read none.
Top Ten Gay Reads:
Two on wish list.
Top Ten Cult Classics:
5. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (originally published as memoirs - the author was later revealed to have embellished chunks of the text). - enjoyed the writing and the story.
8. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart - you know my thoughts on this book.
9. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann - really enjoyed.
Top Ten Sci-Fi Books:
Read none.
Top Ten Chilling Reads:
5. The Stand by Stephen King - I do like Stephen King and found some of this quite scary!
6. Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe - spooky.
7. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - don't remember much about it.
9. Dracula by Bram Stoker - really enjoyed it |
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2008: 4
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I have read 23 from the main list and a few of the others:
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
7. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
25. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
36. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
39. The Secret River by Kate Grenville
44. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
45. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
48. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
49. Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
52. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
53. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
57. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
59. Atonement by Ian McEwan
62. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
64. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
69. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
71. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
88. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
91. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Top Ten British and American Classics:
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Top Ten Quick Reads:
10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Top Ten Challenging Reads:
2. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
4. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Top Ten Men's Books:
3. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Top Ten Non-Fiction Books
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Top Ten Books with a Younger Perspective:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
6. The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
10. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Top Ten War Books:
5. Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
8. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Top Ten Crime Books:
3. Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
Top Ten Chilling Reads:
2. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
4. Host by Peter James
I'm not sure why they have Poisonwood Bible as a challenging read tho 
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Amie
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| Glynis wrote: | The Book Club Bible Book List - which ones have you read?
1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
7. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
10. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
14. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
17. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
25. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
27. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
28. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
29. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
30. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
45. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
48. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
50. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
52. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
53. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
57. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
59. Atonement by Ian McEwan
60. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
62. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
63. Beloved by Toni Morrison
64. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
69. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
75. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
79. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
80. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
82. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
83. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
85. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
88. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
89. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
93. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
94. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
95. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
96. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
100. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Also featured in the guide are the following top ten lists:
Top Ten British and American Classics:
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
6. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
8. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
10. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Top Ten World Classics:
3. The Outsider by Albert Camus
6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Top Ten Quick Reads:
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Top Ten Challenging Reads:
2. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
6. Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Top Ten Men's Books:
A study in 2006 showed that 80% of men interviewed had recently read a novel by a male author and many had trouble remembering the last time they read a book by a female author. Apparently some male book group members turn their noses up at books written by, or perceived to be aimed at, women. "So here is a list to satisfy those hunter-gatherers after more manly tomes":
1. Money by Martin Amis
2. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
5. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Top Ten Non-Fiction Books
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
5. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
10. Longitude by Dava Sobel
Top Ten Books with a Younger Perspective:
1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
5. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
6. The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
7. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Top Ten Humorous Reads :
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Top Ten War Books:
8. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Top Ten Crime Books:
6. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Top Ten Gay Reads:
9. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
10. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Top Ten Cult Classics:
4. Generation X by Douglas Coupland
5. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (originally published as memoirs - the author was later revealed to have embellished chunks of the text).
8. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
9. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Top Ten Sci-Fi Books:
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Top Ten Chilling Reads:
9. Dracula by Bram Stoker
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They're the ones I've read, I've got quite a lot more on my tbr though (not surprising given the size of it!)
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katey
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[quote="Glynis"]The Book Club Bible Book List - which ones have you read?
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on TBR
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou on Wishlist
5. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson on TBR
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood on Wishlist
8. Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy Read this years ago and loved it-my fave of hers
10. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian -really enjoyed this
11. Any Human Heart by William Boyd on wishlist
13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess on wishlist
14. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey on TBR
15. Wise Children by Angela Carter on Wishlist
19. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho on TBR
20. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins on TBR
22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres Gave up on it-hated it!
25. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier on TBR
27. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides on wishlist
29. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks -tried this but couldn't get into it
30. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald on TBR
31. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster Love it!
35. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons on TBR
36. Lord of the Flies by William Golding Did this for GCSE-want to reread
38. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene on wishlist
43. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne on TBR
45. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller Didn't really like this very mcuh
47. This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes This was OK but a bit too long if I remember rightly
48. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini on TBR
53. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James on wishlist
54. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd on TBR
55. The Girls by Lori Lansens on wishlist
56. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence on wishlist
57. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee on wishlist
58. Small Island by Andrea Levy -another that I felt was too long
59. Atonement by Ian McEwan on TBR
63. Beloved by Toni Morrison on TBR
65. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami on wishlist
67. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov on wishlist
69. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger on TBR
70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell on wishlist
72. The Pact by Jodi Picoult on TBR
74. Vernon God Little by D. B. C. Pierre on TBR
75. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath -loved tihs when I read it as a student
78. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy on TBR
82. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold -not a big fan of this book, made me feel very uncomfortable
83. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad on wishlist
84. Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve -on TBR
85. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver LOVE this book
86. On Beauty by Zadie Smith on TBR
88. Perfume by Patrick Suskind -hated this-couldn't finish it
93. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain on TBR
94. Rabbit, Run by John Updike on wishlist
95. The Color Purple by Alice Walker on TBR
96. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters read most of this but gave up, it just wasn't for me, but can see why some people love it
99. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon on TBR
100. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak on TBR
Also featured in the guide are the following top ten lists:
Top Ten British and American Classics:
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ON TBR
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Probably my favourite book ever
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte on TBR
5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens on TBR
6. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy on wishlist
10. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton on wishlist
Top Ten World Classics:
1. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende on wishlist
7. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert on TBR
8. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg on TBR
Top Ten Quick Reads:
6. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald on wishlist
Top Ten Challenging Reads:
2. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco on wishlist
3. Ulysses by James Joyce on wishlist
5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera on wishlist
6. Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak on wishlist
8. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth on TBR
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy on wishlist
Top Ten Men's Books:
A study in 2006 showed that 80% of men interviewed had recently read a novel by a male author and many had trouble remembering the last time they read a book by a female author. Apparently some male book group members turn their noses up at books written by, or perceived to be aimed at, women. "So here is a list to satisfy those hunter-gatherers after more manly tomes":
5. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby enjoyed this but agree it is more a man's book!
7. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons -Love all Tony Parsons books
Top Ten Non-Fiction Books
1. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom actually this may be my favourite book ever.....
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote on wishlist
5. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank read this a long time ago, it was very humbling
Top Ten Books with a Younger Perspective:
1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott on TBR
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll on TBR
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon found this very hard to read, but I guess that is kind of the point"!
5. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis read all these as a child, have kept my boxset for Zachary!
6. The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman all on TBR
9. Holes by Louis Sachar didn't enjoy this
10. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith I adored this, it really transported me away.
Top Ten Humorous Reads :
I obviously don't do humour!!!
Top Ten War Books:
5. Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally on wishlist
10. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute on wishlist
Top Ten Crime Books:
I don't do crime either!
Top Ten Gay Reads:
10. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson on wishlist
Top Ten Cult Classics:
1. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster on wishlist
5. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (originally published as memoirs - the author was later revealed to have embellished chunks of the text). on TBR
Top Ten Sci-Fi Books:
Not big on Sci-Fi eitehr!
Top Ten Chilling Reads:
7. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley on TBR
8. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson on TBR
9. Dracula by Bram Stoker on TBR
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Books 02.09- 12 (4)
Books 03.09- 9 (1)
Books 04.09- 3 (0)
Books 05.09- 3(0)
Books 06.09- 8(1)
Books 07.09- 9(0)
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ejb76
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I am ashamed to say that i have only read The Color Purple from the main list but i have 21 on my TBR list
2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
9. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
14. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
20. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
25. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
30. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
43. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
56. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
57. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
59. Atonement by Ian McEwan
63. Beloved by Toni Morrison
64. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
68.Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
69. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
72. The Pact by Jodi Picoult
82. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
83. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
96. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
99. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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What a lovely set of lists! I have read -
3. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
29. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
41. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
51. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
57. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
60. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
62. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
64. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
82. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
89. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
90. The Colour by Rose Tremain
92. Marrying the Mistress by Joanna Trolliope
Top Ten British and American Classics:
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Top Ten World Classics:
Have read a couple by Isabel Allende but not this one I don't think
Top Ten Quick Reads:
Read none of these
Top Ten Challenging Reads:
None of these either!
Top Ten Men's Books:
5. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
7. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
Top Ten Non-Fiction Books
None of these, not a big reader of non-fiction
Top Ten Books with a Younger Perspective:
1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
5. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
6. The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
8. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
9. Holes by Louis Sachar
Top Ten Humorous Reads :
None
Top Ten War Books:
None
Top Ten Crime Books:
3. Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
8. A Taste for Death by P. D. James
Quite like this genre so surprised I had only read the two, need to track down some of the others I think.
Top Ten Gay Reads:
None
Top Ten Cult Classics:
None
Top Ten Sci-Fi Books:
None
Top Ten Chilling Reads:
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2. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - gave up on this one
6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - on my TBR
8. Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy - enjoyed this
10. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian - wonderful - I loved it
19. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - on my TBR
20. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - I read this at school
22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres - have given up on this one twice now!
25. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - I read this years ago but intend to re-read it soon
27. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - on my TBR
30. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - wasnt keen on this
31. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster - on my TBR
35. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons - on my TBR
36. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - an all time favourite of mine
45. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller - fabulous, I love it
48. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - a wonderful book
53. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - wasnt keen on this one
54. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd - didnt really enjoy this
55. The Girls by Lori Lansens - I thought this was very over-hyped
57. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - one of my all time favourites
63. Beloved by Toni Morrison - excellent
64. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse - another excellent read
69. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - hated this so much
70. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell - excellent
72. The Pact by Jodi Picoult - my first Jodi P and I was hooked!
76. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson - on my TBR
80. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger - on my TBR
82. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - not that keen, prefer her other books
83. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad - on my TBR
85. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver - hated it
87. Sophie's Choice by William Styron - on my TBR
91. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor - enjoyed this one
95. The Color Purple by Alice Walker - excellent, loved it
96. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters - really enjoyed this
99. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - fantastic, another favourite of mine
100. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - another excellent read
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I have read a mere 16 from the Top 100 Book Club bible list
7. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (really glad that I read this as I appreciaited it for the writing, although it was not the sort of book I would read to enjoy.)
10. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian (really liked this)
17. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (a keeper for me, dont be put off by the footnotes!)
19. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (read this a few years ago and cant even remember it)
22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres (Love it love it love it! I know its a bit wordy in parts but its such a beautiful story!)
25. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (just wasnt my thing)
36. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (really enjoyed this and have kept it to re-read)
47. This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes (really dont know why this is on the list, I thought it was mediocre)
48. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Loved it)
50. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Amazing, another keeper! Very thought provoking).
55. The Girls by LoriLansens (OMG - hugely overrated! I agree the subject matter is different and perhaps controversial but I didnt think the book itself was all that special)
57. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (I remember loving this when I read it but another that I need to acquire and re-read)
69. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (another overrated book)
72. The Pact by Jodi Picoult (I loved this, only the 2nd Picoult that I'd read and I'd been put off as people had told me it wasnt her best but I enjoyed every page)
82. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Really enjoyed this)
100. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (A very moving book - unfortunately I lent out my hardback copy a couple of years ago and havent seen it since *sniff*)
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These were my reads in 2008 off the list:
1. Half of a Yellow Sun
2. Brick Lane
3. The Handmaid's Tale
4. Oscar & Lucinda
5. Birdsong
6. Cold Comfort Farm
7. 1984
8. The Secret History
9. Little Women
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