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Thursday, May 26, 2011

The Boroondara 150 - how many have you read?

Number

Title

Author

1Pride and prejudiceJane Austen
2To kill a mockingbirdHarper Lee
3Harry Potter (series)J.K. Rowling
4The Millennium trilogy (series)Stieg Larsson
5The lord of the rings (series)J.R.R. Tolkien
6The faraway tree (series)Enid Blyton
7Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
8CloudstreetTim Winton
9Wuthering heightsEmily Bronte  
10Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
11Alice in Wonderland & Through the looking glassLewis Carroll
12PersuasionJane Austen
13Year of wondersGeraldine Brooks
14The Lymond chronicles (series)Dorothy Dunnett
15The wind in the willowsKenneth Grahame
16The kite runnerKhaled Hosseini
17The No. 1 ladies' detective agencyAlexander McCall Smith
18Winnie-the-PoohA.A. Milne
19Anne of Green GablesL.M. Montgomery
20The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie societyMary Ann Shaffer
21The grapes of wrathJohn Steinbeck
22My family and other animalsGerald Durrell
23A fortunate lifeA.B. Facey 
24The Narnia chronicles (series)C.S. Lewis 
25 Gone with the windMargaret Mitchell  
26 The catcher in the ryeJ.D. Salinger
27 Jane EyreCharlotte Bronte
28 The secret gardenFrances Hodgson Burnett 
29 The very hungry caterpillarEric Carle
30 Mao's last dancerLi Cunxin
31 A tale of two citiesCharles Dickens
32 The secret riverKate Grenville
33 Discworld (series)Terry Pratchett
34 Where the wild things areMaurice Sendak
35 War and peaceLeo Tolstoy
36 The BibleVarious editions
37 Dirt musicTim Winton
38 The book thiefMarkus Zusak
39 Little womenLouisa May Alcott
40 EmmaJane Austen
41 The adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
42 Asterix (series) Goscinny and Uderzo
43 84 Charring Cross RoadHelene Hanff
44 The magic puddingNorman Lindsay
45 Life of PiYann Martel
46 The time traveller's wifeAudrey Niffenegger
47 Brother Cadfael (series)Ellis Peters
48 The fortunes of Richard MahoneyHenry Handel Richardson
49 Jeeves and Wooster (series)P.G. Wodehouse
50 Arthur & GeorgeJulian Barnes
51 The famous five (series)Enid Blyton
52 Billabong  (series)Mary Grant Bruce
53 Molly Moon (series)Georgia Byng
54 The outsiderAlbert Camus
55 The alchemistPaulo Coelho
56 Charlie and the chocolate factoryRoald Dahl
57 The leopardGiuseppe Di Lampedusa
58 The red tentAnita Diamant
59 The Alexandria quartet (series)Lawrence Durrell
60 Ranger's apprentice (series)John Flanagan
61 Possum magicMem Fox
62 Catch 22Joseph Heller
63 Biggles (series)  Captain W. E. Johns
64 Tinker tailor soldier spyJohn Le Carre
65 Tomorrow, when the war beganJohn Marsden
66 Now we are sixA.A. Milne
67 Cry, the beloved country Alan Paton
68 The Gormenghast trilogy (series)Mervyn Peake
69 Amelia Peabody mysteries (series)Elizabeth Peters
70 Rebus (series)Ian Rankin
71 The nine tailorsDorothy L. Sayers
72 The readerBernhard Schlink
73 PerfumePatrick Suskind
74 The hobbitJ.R.R. Tolkien
75 The age of innocenceEdith Wharton
76 VossPatrick White
77 Not a penny more, not a penny lessJeffrey Archer 
78 The camel club (series)David Baldacci
79 Selby (series)Duncan Ball
80 Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury
81 People of the bookGeraldine Brooks
82 The twins of Emu PlainsMary Grant Bruce
83 Ender's gameOrson Scott Card
84 Poirot (series)Agatha Christie
85 Artemis Fowl (series) Eoin Colfer
86 Harry Bosch (series)Michael Connelly
87 Heart of darknessJoseph Conrad
88 The dark is risingSusan Cooper
89 Bleak houseCharles Dickens
90 The three musketeers Alexander Dumas
91 MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
92Mill on the FlossGeorge Eliot
93 BirdsongSebastian Faulks
94 The great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
95 Pillars of the earthKen Follett
96 A passage to IndiaE.M. Forster
97 Where is the green sheep?Mem Fox
98 Anne Frank: diary of a young girlAnne Frank
99 The graveyard bookNeil Gaiman
100 Let's get a pupBob Graham
101 We of the Never-NeverAeneas Gunn
102 Tess of the D'UrbervillesThomas Hardy
103 All creatures great and smallJames Herriot
104 The grand SophyGeorgette Heyer
105 Dalziel & Pascoe (series)Reginald Hill
106 A thousand splendid sunsKhaled Hosseini
107 UlyssesJames Joyce
108 Schindler's arkThomas Keneally
109Kim Rudyard Kipling
110 Seven pillars of wisdomT.E. Lawrence
111 If this is a manPrimo Levi
112 Twilight (series)Stephenie Meyer
113 Love in a cold climateNancy Mitford
114The pursuit of loveNancy Mitford
115 LolitaVladimir Nabokov
116 The railway childrenE. Nesbit
117 Nineteen eighty fourGeorge Orwell
118 The shell seekersRosamunde Pilcher
119 Excellent womenBarbara Pym
120The fountainheadAyn Rand
121Deltora quest (series)Emily Rodda
122 How I live nowMeg Rosoff
123 A suitable boyVikram Seth
124 King LearWilliam Shakespeare
125 A town like AliceNeville Shute
126 The masterColm Toibin
127 The accidental touristAnne Tyler
128 The surgeon of CrowthorneSimon Winchester
129 The shadow of the windCarlos Ruiz Zafon 
130 Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxyDouglas Adams
131 PeepoJanet Ahlberg
132 The adventures of the wishing chair (series)Enid Blyton
133 True history of the Kelly gangPeter Carey
134 The witchesRoald Dahl
135 David CopperfieldCharles Dickens
136 Tashi (series)Anna Fienberg
137 Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert
138 Dog boyEva Hornung
139 Brave new worldAldous Huxley
140 The poisonwood bibleBarbara Kingsolver
141 Wolf HallHilary Mantel
142 LovesongAlex Miller
143 Badjelly the witchSpike Milligan
144When we were very youngA.A. Milne
145 Swallows and AmazonsArthur Ransome
146 The lovely bonesAlice Sebold
147  The man who loved childrenChristina Stead
148 Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson
149 DragonkeeperCarole Wilkinson
150 Veronika decides to diePaulo Coelho




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