100 Books

Well the BBC for ages have been collating the nations favourite Big Reads, and some while ago published to top 100. This has now been further whittled down to the top 21.
In the meantime, The Observer has published its list of the 100 Greatest Novels of All Time. This was followed up by readers listing the books that they felt had been missed off the list.
Many of these I have read. Some I would never read. Some I own, but haven’t yet felt able to either pick up and start, or just get beyond a few pages. So based on all that criteria, here are the books that I’ve yet to read, but feel I must. In no particular order:
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
Of Mice And Men – John Steinbeck
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
The Alexandria Quartet – Lawrence Durrell
The Deptford Trilogy – Robertson Davies
The Magus – John Fowles
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Pursuit Of Love – Nancy Mitford
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Woman In White – Wilkie Collins
Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
Underworld – Don Delillo
Obviously I reserve the right to change these as I see fit!


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