Thursday 8 February 2007

#32 Australia's Favourite Books (ABC Book List)

As I examined this in more detail, I realised there are actually quite a few more than 100 books on the list - a few of the numbers had ties and some of the "books" are actually series. That makes me even more impressed that all 5 (at the time of the survey) Harry Potter books made the list individually. Anyway, I reorganised the list into alphabetical order and am going to put it here so that I can cross them off when I'm done. At this point, I am planning to only cross off books that I actually read in the 1001 days, so if I've read it before (which I think I counted was about a third of them, some of them a LONG time ago though) it isn't automatically crossed off, but is kind of lower on my priority list than the ones I've never read. If it's in bold, that means I currently have a bookmark in it.

The Bible
Douglas Adams The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Richard Adams Watership Down
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Felice Arena and Phil Kettle Boyz Rule
Jane Austen Emma
Jane Austen Persuasion
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Enid Blyton The Magic Faraway Tree
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code
A.S. Byatt Possession: A Romance
Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Jung Chang Wild Swans
Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl
Joseph Conrad Heart Of Darkness
Bryce Courtenay Jessica
Bryce Courtenay The Power Of One
Li Cunxin Mao's Last Dancer
Roald Dahl The BFG
Roald Dahl Matilda
Louis De Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Charles Dickens David Copperfield
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
Daphne Du Maurier Rebecca
Gerald Durrell My Family And Other Animals
George Eliot Middlemarch
A.B. Facey A Fortunate Life
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
Raymond E. Feist Magician
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Ken Follett The Pillars Of The Earth
Diana Gabaldon Cross Stitch
Steve Gerlach Rage
Arthur Golden Memoirs Of A Geisha
Kenneth Grahame The Wind In The Willows
Traci Harding The Ancient Future Trilogy
Joseph Heller Catch 22
Frank Herbert Dune (Dune Chronicles)
Li Hongzhi Zhaun Falun
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
Keri Hulme The Bone People
John Irving A Prayer For Owen Meany
Jack Kerouac On The Road
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird
C.S. Lewis The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
Norman Lindsay The Magic Pudding
Melina Marchetta Looking For Alibrandi
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love In The Time Of Cholera
John Marsden Tomorrow, When The War Began
Yann Martel Life Of Pi
Frank Mccourt Angela's Ashes
Colleen Mccullough The Thorn Birds
A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh
Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance
Margaret Mitchell Gone With The Wind
L.M. Montgomery Anne Of Green Gables
Michael Ondaatje The English Patient
George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell Animal Farm
Thomas Paine The Age Of Reason
Christopher Paolini Eragon
Dav Pilkey Captain Underpants & The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space
Robert Pirsig Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Annie Proulx The Shipping News
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Matthew Reilly Ice Station
Matthew Reilly Scarecrow
H.H. Richardson The Fortunes Of Richard Mahony
Gregory David Roberts Shantaram
Emily Rodda Deltora Quest Series
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Arundhati Roy The God Of Small Things
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
J.D. Salinger The Catcher In The Rye
Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy
Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events
R. L Stine Goosebumps
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
Col Stringer 800 Horseman
Col Stringer 'Fighting' McKenzie Anzac Chaplain
Patrick Suskind Perfume: The Story Of A Murder
Donna Tartt The Secret History
J.R.R. Tolkein The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkein The Hobbit
Leo Tolstoy War And Peace
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
Tim Winton Cloudstreet
Tim Winton Dirt Music
Tim Winton The Riders
Arnold Zable Cafe Scheherazade
Marion Zimmer-Bradley The Mists Of Avalon

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