BBC's Big Read Top 100

BBC's Big Read Top 100

Please excuse all the "Amazon.ca" 's, I have neither the time or patience to delete them all. I did a few.


Richard Adams Watership Down
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Jeffery Archer Kane and Abel
Jean M Auel The Clan of the Cave Bear
Jane Austen Emma
Jane Austen Persuasion
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Malorie Blackman Noughts and Crosses
Enid Blyton The Magic Faraway Tree
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Meg Cabot The Princess Diaries
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White
Roald Dahl The BFG
Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl Matilda
Roald Dahl The Twits
Louis De Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol,
Charles Dickens David Copperfield
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
George Eliot Middlemarch
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
Raymond E Feist Magician
Helen Fielding Bridge Jones's Diary
F Scott Fitzerald The Great Gatsby
Ken Follett The Pillars of the Earth
John Fowles The Magus
Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm
Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
William Golding The Lord of the Flies
Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbevilles
Joseph Heller Catch 22
Frank Herbert Dune
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany

James Joyce Ulysses
Jack Kerouac On the Road
Stephen King The Stand
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
C S Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mister Tom
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude

Colleen McCullough The Thorn Birds
A A Milne Winnie the Pooh
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
L M Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
George Orwell 1984
George Orwell Animal Farm
Mervyn Peake Gormenghast
Rosamunde Pilcher The Shell Seekers
Terry Pratchett The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett Good Omens
Terry Pratchett Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett Mort
Terry Pratchett Night Watch
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials
Mario Puzo The Godfather, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons, amazon.ca, amazon.com
J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, amazon.ca, amazon.com
J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, amazon.ca, amazon.com
J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, amazon.ca, amazon.com
J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Louis Sachar Holes, amazon.ca, amazon.com
J D Salinger The Catcher in the Rye, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Anya Seton Katherine, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Anna Sewell Black Beauty, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Nevile Shute A Town Like Alice, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle, amazon.ca, amazon.com
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath, amazon.ca, amazon.com
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Patrick Suskind Perfume, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Donna Tartt The Secret History, amazon.ca, amazon.com
J R R Tolkien The Hobbit, amazon.ca, amazon.com
J R R Tolkien The Lord of the Rings, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Robert Tressell The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Jacqueline Wilson Double Act, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Jacqueline Wilson Girls in Love, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Jacqueline Wilson The Story of Tracy Beaker, amazon.ca, amazon.com
Jacqueline Wilson Vicky Angel, amazon.ca, amazon.com

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Book list

Happy New Year!

Here is a partial list of books for 2008. With dates!

January 14th ---Anne of Green Gables ---Lucy Maud Montgomery
February 11th ---The Dwelling Place ---Catherine Cookson ( We will meet at Coffee Lodge Exmouth, 400 Exmouth Street)
March 10th ---The Hunchback of Notre Dame ---Victor Hugo
April 14th--- To Kill a Mockingbird--- Harper Lee
May 12th ---Sons and Lovers---D.H. Lawence
June 9th ---Watership Down---Richard Adams
July 14th ---Candide---Voltaire
August 11th ---All Things Bright and Beautiful ---James Herriott
September 8th ---Persuasion ---Jane Austen
October 12th ---Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde---Robert Louis Stevenson
November 10th ---Clan of the Cave Bear--Jean Auel
December 8th

Hope to fill in the blanks shortly. Just waiting to hear from you know who at Trent University. See you all this Monday at John's Restaurant, 6 pm. for dinner, 7 pm. for discussion.

Book crossing

If anyone's interested I am releasing 9 books as bookcrossing books on Sunday the 30th at the Lodge. Some of them are books from the discussion group's reading list.

Check out http://www.bookcrossing.com/ for more info.

A Christmas Carol

We discussed 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens last discussion group. We all enjoyed the book. We did a quiz which was not well received, although Donna won a copy of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". We will be discussing this book in March.

We went to Carol's house for a viewing of a "Muppet Christmas Carol" early in the week. A good time was had by all, good food and drink, good movie and good company. Thanks Carol. Missed you Juli.

Have decided to use other venues for our book nights as the accoustics at the Lodge are not the greatest. Very noisy. Prospective group members have been put off as they can't hear what is going on. We will meet at John's Restaurant on January 14th to discuss "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The Book Keeper has copies available. I've heard that the copies of "The Dwelling Place" finally made it here from the UK.

Did anyone see "Northanger Abbey" on TVO last Sunday? Not bad at all. "Mansfield Park" this coming Sunday then "Persuasion" on December 30th. I heard that there is a new "Sense and Sensibility" made for TV. Airing in the UK at the end of the month, who knows when and if it will get here though.

A very Merry Christmas to you all. Best wishes for a happy holiday from Susan.

More Jane Austen movies

For your viewing pleasure over the holidays.....

Apparently there are new adaptions of three Jane Austin books coming up on TVO. ... Northanger Abbey, Sunday, Dec. 16 @9 pm......Mansfield Park, Sunday Dec. 23 @9 pm. ..... Persuasion, Sunday Dec. 23 @ 9 pm.

Yes I realise that the last two are supposedly showing at the same time. This is what my source said though. Those of us locals who are interested in watching them will have to try and sort it out without the benefit of a TV guide using only our TV displays and perseverence. Please let me know if you figure it out.

Unfortunately Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park are my two least favourite Jane Austins. Persuasion is very good though. The only version I have seen of Northanger Abbey was excrutiating so hopefully this one will be better......The Jane Austen Society showed the Amanda Root and Cieran Hind version of Persuasion at the library in London a few months ago. That was very well done.