I always like answering book quizes to see how many famous books I have managed to read (quite by accident) and there's always a few I think I should add to my reading list but never do.

This list is a trial guide to see whether I would actually enjoy these "famous" books or whether they are like art far too personal to put together a top 10.

I don't actually plan on reading all of them, just looking at the blurb and maybe trying a few pages. If this won't be very successful I will try the best in genre approach, starting with sci-fi and fantasy.

• The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien tried, but had far too much description
• ✔ Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen a great book to re-read little bits of once in a while
• His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• ✔ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling great series, not my favourite in the series though
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
• ✔ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis as a child in romanian
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë tried but it had too much description and moved too slowly
• Catch-22, Joseph Heller
• ✔ Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë disapointing
• Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
• Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
• ✔ The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger school, loved it surprisingly
• The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
• ✔ Great Expectations, Charles Dickens school, an utter pain
• Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
• Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
• ✔ Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
• ✔ Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
• ✔ Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
• ✔ The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien really enjoyed it
• Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
• Middlemarch, George Eliot
• A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
• The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
• The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
• The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
• David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
• Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
• ✔ Persuasion, Jane Austen
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• ✔ Emma, Jane Austen
• Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
• Watership Down, Richard Adams
• The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
• Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
• ✔ Animal Farm, George Orwell school, ok
• ✔ A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens _only book of his I like
• Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
• Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
• The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
• The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
• The Stand, Stephen King
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy saw the movie, too depresing and pointless
• A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
• The BFG, Roald Dahl
• Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
• Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
• ✔ Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer good, unfortunately read it in my 20s
• Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
• Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden even the movie wasn't tempting enough
• A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens not a fan
• The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
• Mort, Terry Pratchett hilarious
• The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
• The Magus, John Fowles
• Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• ✔ Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett so good!
• ✔ Lord Of The Flies, William Golding school, so-so
• Perfume, Patrick Süskind too creepy
• The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
• Night Watch, Terry Pratchett one of my fav
• Matilda, Roald Dahl
• ✔ Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding teen yrs, v funny
• The Secret History, Donna Tartt
• ✔ The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins school, bleah
• Ulysses, James Joyce
• Bleak House, Charles Dickens
• Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
• The Twits, Roald Dahl
• I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
• Holes, Louis Sachar
• Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
• The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
• Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
• ✔ Brave New World, Aldous Huxley school, enjoyed it
• Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
• Magician, Raymond E Feist
• On The Road, Jack Kerouac
• The Godfather, Mario Puzo
• The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
• ✔ The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett so starts the most amazing book series
• The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• Katherine, Anya Seton
• Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
• Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
• Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
• The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
• Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie