Topic: The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list

[Clive]

The Guardian

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1061037,00.html


I have to confess that I have only read 9 out of the hundred, and most of those was when I fairly young.

2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens
32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

[Simon]

I should be ashamed to say, apart from half of Lord Of The Rings, and at school, To Kill A Mockingbird, I haven't read any of them!    Where was Animal Farm, and Of Mice And Men?

[Michelle]

am ashamed too, I love reading and I've read one of those lol

[Clive]

But which one Michelle?

[Lona]

I've read quite a few of them

Wuthering Heights
Jekyll and Hyde
Lolita
Alice in Wonderland
Call of the Wild
Jane Eyre
David Copperfield

No Harold Robbins then  

[Barra]

16 for me
Plus I've watched a few of them on tv! ;)Saves reading.
I really must get out more
Where's all the horror wtiters- Stephen King,Dean Kootz,James Herbert,Phil Rickman(very underated english writer-novels set in the pennines)

[Michelle]

I meant only out of clive's 9 I hadn't gone to the website yet.

Still I've only read 6 out of the 100

The BFG  
Lord of the Rings
Emma
Wind in the willows
David Copperfield
Jane Eyre

Yeah and a few seen on tv.

[Michelle]

oh and Wuthering Heights didn't see that before I saw lona's post  

[Robotochan]

I haven't read any of them. The most difficult books I have read are The Time Machine and The Wasp Factory

[Lona]

I haven't read any of them. The most difficult books I have read are The Time Machine and The Wasp Factory

You'll have to read more,Robo, then you will learn how to spell.   . My son doesn't read either, has higher English, and can't spell either.