Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Top 50

To welcome you to this blog and to give a little insight into my reading preferences I have compiled my top 50 ‘books everyone must read’. I will continue to update the list whenever I read something new and amazing, or if I remember some forgotten gem I should have included. What are your favourite books?

1.       Enders Game-Orson Scott Card
2.       Towers of Midnight- Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
3.       His Dark Materials- Phillip Pullman
4.       The Chronicles of Narnia- C.S. Lewis
5.       Poirot Books- Agatha Christie
6.       The Wind on Fire- William Nicholson
7.       Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
8.       I Am David- Anne Holm
9.       The Help- Kathryn Stockett
10.   The Solitaire Mystery- Jostein Gaarder
11.   Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
12.   Ludo and the Star Horse- Mary Stewart
13.   The Time Traveller’s Wife- Audrey Niffenegger
14.   Mister Pip- Lloyd Jones
15.   Passenger- Billy Cowie
16.   Letters from the Inside- John Marsden
17.   A Different Life- Lois Keith
18.   Noughts and Crosses- Malorie Blackman
19.   Earth’s Children- Jean M. Auel
20.   The Midwich Cuckoos- John Wyndham
21.   Room- Emma Donoghue
22.   North Child- Edith Pattou
23.   The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks- Rebecca Skloot
24.   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Mark Haddon
25.   You Don’t Know Me- David Klass
26.   Riding Tycho- Jan Mark
27.   Uglies- Scott Westerfeld
28.   Addition- Toni Jordan
29.   The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
30.   Little House on the Prairie- Laura Ingalls Wilder
31.   Arabian Nights- Various authors
32.   1984- George Orwell
33.   Perfume- Patrick Suskind
34.   Mondays are Red- Nicola Morgan
35.   The Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank
36.   Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro
37.   The Ice Cream Girls- Dorothy Koomson
38.   The Diving Bell and the Butterfly- Jean-Dominique Bauby
39.   The Girls- Lori Lansens
40.   Plain Truth- Jodi Picoult
41.   Millennium Trilogy- Stieg Larsson
42.   A Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
43.   Just So Stories- Rudyard Kipling
44.   Homeward Bound- Diana Wynne Jones
45.   The Kin- Peter Dickinson
46.   The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien
47.   The Deepwood Chronicles- Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
48.   The Song of the Lioness- Tamora Pierce
49.   The Phantom Tollbooth- Norton Juster
50.   Coram Boy- Jamila Gavin

3 comments:

  1. Definitely agree with the Time Traveller's Wife, Room, The Lovely Bones and the Chronicles of Narnia.

    In no particular order, some of my favourites are:

    The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
    City of Theives by David Benioff
    A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
    The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
    Anything by Marian Keyes

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  2. Thanks, I haven't read any of those (unless by Anything you mean anything she's written, in which case I have), i'll have to check them out!

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  3. Sorry; yes, I meant anything that she's written. She's my comfort reading author. :)

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