Here are my thoughts on a couple of books I've read recently.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
I was sorely disappointed by this, not because of anything in the book, but because he didn't finish it. It was something Franklin worked on periodically for many years and then died before he could finish. His account ends in the mid 1750s, just as things were getting interesting on the road to independence. I was left wanting much more and now I'm going to have to read a biography of Franklin just to fill in the holes and finish the story. It was a fun read, and I enjoyed it up until its all too sudden ending.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
This one got my revolutionary fervor stoked up. Granted, the debate over monarchy has long since been resolved in this country but his discussion on the purpose of government was insightful and still relevant. This pamphlet played an important role in building public support for the independence movement. What's more, Paine put his money where his mouth is by donating his profits from the sale of the pamphlet to the war effort.
In the introduction he strikes a blow for civility by declaring, "In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every thing which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof." He stuck to that intention and I think his argument was the stronger for it. I knew I was going to enjoy it even more when, in the second paragraph, he states, "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one." Considering the importance of this little book in the formation of our country, I'm surprised I haven't read it before now. I felt smarter while reading and I sure wish I could write with the clarity and style that Paine demonstrated.
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Helping the Homeless
I had a reunion with some old friends this week. I had forgotten about a lot of them, even though they've been homeless, some even living in cardboard boxes. Recently they've been exposed to the abuse of animals and children and I determined to find a better home for them. That their homelessness is the direct result of the birth of my daughter is no excuse for my neglect but it does help to explain. You see, I used to have a wonderful office in my home. I had a big, comfy chair, a place for my computer and, best of all, one whole wall with floor to ceiling bookshelves. It wasn't enough to hold all of my books and I had considered plans to expand across another wall but the birth of my daughter derailed those plans and forced the evacuation of my office. My twin sons took possession of that room and my beloved bookshelves became home to trucks, trains, tools, toys and a significantly younger genre of books.
My books were taken downstairs where they were put onto shelves in the entertainment center, dumped into boxes, stacked on top of other cabinets and generally neglected. Actually, neglect might have been a blessing. Those in the entertainment center became the objects of interest to curious boys and later a curious little girl. That same little girl also found the boxes full of paperbacks under my desk and took joy in pulling them out into a pile on the floor. That's when the other force of destruction entered our basement: bunnies. They are pretty much "ordinary rabbits" which means they love to chew. Fortunately, the book that took the brunt of their destruction was one I won't miss. But when I found an already often read Terry Pratchett on the floor, sans cover, I knew it was time to act.
As I pulled the boxes out and gathered my little library together I found myself remembering little details about the books, the authors, even things that happened in my life when I read the book. And one by one my old friends found new homes. Terry Pratchett, Pearl Buck, JRR Tolkien, Richard Feynman, Douglas Adams, Tom Clancy, Mark Twain, Neil Gaiman, Thomas Hardy, Bill Watterson, Scott Adams, Isaac Asimov, Shakespeare, Ray Bradbury, Earnest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, Gary Larsen, Ayn Rand, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, Agatha Christie, Henrik Ibsen, Jules Verne, John Grisham, Gregory Maguire, H.G. Wells, Carl Sagan, Richard Adams, D.H. Lawrence, Amy Tan, Berke Breathed, Tennessee Williams, Michael Crichton, Chaim Potok, Stephen Hawking, etc, etc, etc. It was a struggle not to pause at nearly every book and read a paragraph, a page, or a chapter, but it took me years to read them all once (or twice, or several times for a few of them) and I needed to get them situated in one day. I even found a few that I haven't read but had put into my "to read" pile and never quite got around to them. At the end of the day I feel much better knowing all of these friends from my youth are in better accommodations and I have resolved to spend some quality time with each and every one of them over the next few years. I might even take a few of them to bed.
My books were taken downstairs where they were put onto shelves in the entertainment center, dumped into boxes, stacked on top of other cabinets and generally neglected. Actually, neglect might have been a blessing. Those in the entertainment center became the objects of interest to curious boys and later a curious little girl. That same little girl also found the boxes full of paperbacks under my desk and took joy in pulling them out into a pile on the floor. That's when the other force of destruction entered our basement: bunnies. They are pretty much "ordinary rabbits" which means they love to chew. Fortunately, the book that took the brunt of their destruction was one I won't miss. But when I found an already often read Terry Pratchett on the floor, sans cover, I knew it was time to act.
As I pulled the boxes out and gathered my little library together I found myself remembering little details about the books, the authors, even things that happened in my life when I read the book. And one by one my old friends found new homes. Terry Pratchett, Pearl Buck, JRR Tolkien, Richard Feynman, Douglas Adams, Tom Clancy, Mark Twain, Neil Gaiman, Thomas Hardy, Bill Watterson, Scott Adams, Isaac Asimov, Shakespeare, Ray Bradbury, Earnest Hemingway, Stephen Crane, Gary Larsen, Ayn Rand, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, Agatha Christie, Henrik Ibsen, Jules Verne, John Grisham, Gregory Maguire, H.G. Wells, Carl Sagan, Richard Adams, D.H. Lawrence, Amy Tan, Berke Breathed, Tennessee Williams, Michael Crichton, Chaim Potok, Stephen Hawking, etc, etc, etc. It was a struggle not to pause at nearly every book and read a paragraph, a page, or a chapter, but it took me years to read them all once (or twice, or several times for a few of them) and I needed to get them situated in one day. I even found a few that I haven't read but had put into my "to read" pile and never quite got around to them. At the end of the day I feel much better knowing all of these friends from my youth are in better accommodations and I have resolved to spend some quality time with each and every one of them over the next few years. I might even take a few of them to bed.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
BBC Book List
I've seen this list going around and I was curious about what the BBC actually said about it. The claim was that the average person will have only read 6 out of 100 of these books. However, the list I found on the BBC website doesn't say anything about this and it also includes 200 books. I like the longer list even though it lowered my number read from 65% (65 out of 100) down to 44% (88 out of 200).
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' next to those you have read.
2) Add a '+' next to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
(x+)1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
(x)2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
( )3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
(x+)4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
(x)5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
(x+)6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
(x+)7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
(x)8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
(x+)9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
(x)10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
(x+)11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
(x)12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
( )13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
( )14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
(x+)15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
(x)16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
(x)17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
(x)18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
( )19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
( )20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
( )21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
(x)22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
(x)23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
(x)24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
(x+)25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
(x)26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
( )27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
(x+)28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
(x)29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
(x+)30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
( )31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
( )32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
( )33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
( )34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
(x)35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
(x)36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
( )37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
( )38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
(x)39. Dune, Frank Herbert
( )40. Emma, Jane Austen
(x)41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
(x)42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
(x)43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
(*)44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
( )45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
(x)46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
(x)47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
(x+)48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
( )49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
( )50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
( )51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
(x)52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
(x)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
(x)58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
( )59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
(x)60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor 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 McCollough
(x)65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
( )66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
( )67. The Magus, John Fowles
(x)68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
(x)69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
(x)70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
( )71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
( )72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
(x)73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
(x)74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
(x)75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
( )76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
( )77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
(*)78. Ulysses, James Joyce
( )79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
( )80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
(x)81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
( )82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
(x)83. Holes, Louis Sachar
( )84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
( )85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
( )86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
(x)87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
(*)88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
(x)89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
(x)90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
( )91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
(x)92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
(x)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 García Márquez
( )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
(x)102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
( )103. The Beach, Alex Garland
(x)104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
( )105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
( )106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
( )107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
( )108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
( )109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
( )110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
(x)111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
( )112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
( )113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
(x)114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
( )115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
( )116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
( )117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
(x)118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
( )119. Shogun, James Clavell
( )120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
( )121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
( )122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
( )123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
( )124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
( )125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
(x)126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
( )127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
(x)128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
( )129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
( )130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
( )131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
(*)132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
( )133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
(*)134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
(x)135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
( )136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
(x)137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
( )138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
( )139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
( )140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
(x)141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
( )142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
( )143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
(x)144. It, Stephen King
(x+)145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
(x)146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
(x)147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
(x)148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
( )149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
( )150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
(x)151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
(x)152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
(x)153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
( )154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
( )155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
( )156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
(x)157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
(x)158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
(*)159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
( )160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
( )161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
( )162. River God, Wilbur Smith
( )163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
( )164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
(x)165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
( )166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
( )167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
( )168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
(x)169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
(x)170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
(x)171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
( )172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
(x)173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
(x)174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
( )175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
( )176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
(*)177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
( )178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
(x)179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
(x)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
(x)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. Stine
( )189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
(x)190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence
( )191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
( )192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
(x)193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
(x)194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
(x)195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
( )196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
(x)197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
(x)198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
(x+)199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
(x)200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' next to those you have read.
2) Add a '+' next to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
(x+)1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
(x)2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
( )3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
(x+)4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
(x)5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
(x+)6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
(x+)7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
(x)8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
(x+)9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
(x)10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
(x+)11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
(x)12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
( )13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
( )14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
(x+)15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
(x)16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
(x)17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
(x)18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
( )19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
( )20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
( )21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
(x)22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
(x)23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
(x)24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
(x+)25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
(x)26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
( )27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
(x+)28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
(x)29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
(x+)30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
( )31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
( )32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
( )33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
( )34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
(x)35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
(x)36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
( )37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
( )38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
(x)39. Dune, Frank Herbert
( )40. Emma, Jane Austen
(x)41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
(x)42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
(x)43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
(*)44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
( )45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
(x)46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
(x)47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
(x+)48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
( )49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
( )50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
( )51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
(x)52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
(x)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
(x)58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
( )59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
(x)60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor 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 McCollough
(x)65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
( )66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
( )67. The Magus, John Fowles
(x)68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
(x)69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
(x)70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
( )71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
( )72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
(x)73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
(x)74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
(x)75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
( )76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
( )77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
(*)78. Ulysses, James Joyce
( )79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
( )80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
(x)81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
( )82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
(x)83. Holes, Louis Sachar
( )84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
( )85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
( )86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
(x)87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
(*)88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
(x)89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
(x)90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
( )91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
(x)92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
(x)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 García Márquez
( )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
(x)102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
( )103. The Beach, Alex Garland
(x)104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
( )105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
( )106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
( )107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
( )108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
( )109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
( )110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
(x)111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
( )112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend
( )113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
(x)114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
( )115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
( )116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
( )117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
(x)118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
( )119. Shogun, James Clavell
( )120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
( )121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
( )122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
( )123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
( )124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
( )125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
(x)126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
( )127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
(x)128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
( )129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
( )130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
( )131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
(*)132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
( )133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
(*)134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
(x)135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
( )136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
(x)137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
( )138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
( )139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
( )140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
(x)141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
( )142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
( )143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
(x)144. It, Stephen King
(x+)145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
(x)146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
(x)147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
(x)148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
( )149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian
( )150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
(x)151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
(x)152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
(x)153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
( )154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
( )155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
( )156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
(x)157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
(x)158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
(*)159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
( )160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
( )161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
( )162. River God, Wilbur Smith
( )163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
( )164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
(x)165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
( )166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
( )167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
( )168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
(x)169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
(x)170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
(x)171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
( )172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
(x)173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
(x)174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
( )175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
( )176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
(*)177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl
( )178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
(x)179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
(x)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
(x)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. Stine
( )189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
(x)190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence
( )191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
( )192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
(x)193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
(x)194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
(x)195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
( )196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
(x)197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
(x)198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
(x+)199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
(x)200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
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