- To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. What? To the Lighthouse is barely penetrable, it is verbose and unrefined. Mrs Dalloway would be a far better example of Woolf's skill for narrative.
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. It doesn't even get a mention. I think that this is ridiculous. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone gets in (albeit in the children's stories section), and this one doesn't.
- Aphra Behn. I'm surprised that one of the first female professional authors, playwrights and poet is not mentioned in this list. Although I've not read Oroonoko, it probably deserves to be in there somewhere. Mind you, I might save that verdict until I've actually read it.
If you're interested to see which books feature in the list visit here. Here is how I scored.
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnet
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
- Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
- The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- Northern Lights, Philip Pullman
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
- The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
- Charlotte's Webb, E.B. White
- The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
- The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (not all of it)
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Frankenstein, Mary Shlley
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
- The Book of Margery Kempe, Margery Kempe
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Noel Adams
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
- The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
Currently Reading: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Page: 173 of 493
Bookmark: Bus ticket from January
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