The Book List

100 Books to begin with...this may change as time goes on (I have mentioned I pick up books all the time right??):

1984 by George Orwell
84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff

Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Aesop’s Fables (translated by S A Handford)
Angel’s and Demons by Dan Brown
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery
Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne
Art of War by Sun-Tzu


Ben Jonson: plays by Ben Jonson
Black Moth (The) by Georgette Heyer
Blaze of Glory by Michael Pryor
Borrower of the Night by Elizabeth Peters
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh


Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Confederacy of Dunces (A) by John Kennedy Toole
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (A) by Mark Twain
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Crimes against Humanity by Geoffrey Robertson (non-fiction)


Dark Days by Frank Moorhouse
Dark Mirror by Juliet Marillier
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Death at Bishop’s Keep by Robin Paige
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Duplicate Death by Georgette Heyer


Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbury
Enchanted Castle by E Nesbit
Evelina, or a History of a Yound Lady’s entrance into the World by Frances Burney
Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde


False Colours by Georgette Heyer
Father Brown: A selection by G K Chesterton
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley


Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer


Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
History of the World in 10 and a ½ Chapters by Julian Barnes
Hobbit (The) by J R R Tolkien
Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle


If on a winter’s night, a traveller by Italo Calvino
Importance of Being Ernest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
Innocent Mage (The) by Karen Miller


Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Justice Game by Ken Crispin (non-fiction)


Kim by Rudyard Kipling


Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sandition by Jane Austen
Leopard (The) by Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa
London: A novel by Edward Rutherfurd
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Love and Friendship and Other Writings by Jane Austen


Magician by Raymond Feist
Mary Poppins by P L Travers
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Matter of Magic by Patricia Wrede
Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson (non-fiction)
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf


Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons
Noah's Law by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E Hoffmann and The Tale of the Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas


Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Peter Pan by J M Barrie
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
Portable Dante (The) by Dante
Power without Glory by Frank Hardy
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Princess Bride by William Goldman
Prophet (The) by Kahil Gibran
Punch and Judy by Mungo MacCullum
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw


Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Room with a View by E M Forster
Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard
Rubaiyat of Oman Khayyam by Oman Khayyam
Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer


Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder


Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe
Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
To Sir with Love by E R Braithwaite


War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Winnie-the-Pooh by A A Milne
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë