The ones I meant
So here are the books I meant before I thought about it:
- which leaves me only 7 to get through - hardly I challenge so I'll stick with my original (or second original) list of choices.
So long as I'm allowed to leave out most of Terry Pratchett's output. Why so many of his? All on the BBC list I'm sad to say. I expect it's more a reflection of the type of people who fill in surveys rather than his true worth.
And I suppose the same can be said for the U.S selection of Robert Heinlein - tho havng read him I'd say is more suited to being on this list than our own T.P.
Title | Author | Read |
1984 | George Orwell | Y |
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANEY | John Irving | Y |
A TOWN LIKE ALICE | Nevil Shute | |
ANIMAL FARM | George Orwell | Y |
BRAVE NEW WORLD | Aldous Huxley | Y |
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED | Evelyn Waugh | |
CATCH-22 | Joseph Heller | Y |
DUNE | Frank Herbert | Y |
GONE WITH THE WIND | Margaret Mitchell | |
LORD OF THE FLIES | William Golding | Y |
ON THE ROAD | Jack Kerouac | |
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE | JD Salinger | |
THE GRAPES OF WRATH | John Steinbeck | |
THE GREAT GATSBY | F Scott Fitzgerald | |
THE LORD OF THE RINGS | J.R.R. Tolkien | Y |
THE MAGUS | John Fowles | Y |
THE STAND | Stephen King | Y |
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD | Harper Lee | Y |
WATERSHIP DOWN | Richard Adams |
- which leaves me only 7 to get through - hardly I challenge so I'll stick with my original (or second original) list of choices.
So long as I'm allowed to leave out most of Terry Pratchett's output. Why so many of his? All on the BBC list I'm sad to say. I expect it's more a reflection of the type of people who fill in surveys rather than his true worth.
And I suppose the same can be said for the U.S selection of Robert Heinlein - tho havng read him I'd say is more suited to being on this list than our own T.P.
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