UK Book Club discussion

I'm looking forward to this one. I have read books by some of the authors listed but I'm going to start from scratch and read a book I haven't read by them before. Some tasty ones in here!

Progress: 8/50

Books in ( ) are books I will read but not read as yet.

1) Philip Larkin
2) George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four ⚜️⚜️⚜️ [05.02.2017]
3) William Golding - Lord Of The Flies ⚜️⚜️ [01.04.2019]
4) Ted Hughes
5) Doris Lessing
6) J.R.R. Tolkien
7) V.S. Naipaul - A Bend in the River ⚜ [14.06.2017. DNF - utterly boring]
8) Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ⚜️⚜️⚜️ [01.03.2019]
9) Kingsley Amis
10) Angela Carter - Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales ⚜️[18.10.2017. DNF - awful]
11) C.S. Lewis
12) Iris Murdoch
13) Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses ⚜⚜⚜ [28.08.2017]
14) Ian Fleming (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
15) Jan Morris
16) Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️ [07.12.2017]
17) Anthony Burgess
18) Mervyn Peake
19) Martin Amis
20) Anthony Powell
21) Alan Sillitoe
22) John le Carre
23) Penelope Fitzgerald
24) Philippa Pearce
25) Barbara Pym
26) Beryl Bainbridge
27) J.G. Ballard
28) Alan Garner
29) Alasdair Gray
30) John Fowles
31) Derek Walcott
32) Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day)
33) Anita Brookner
34) A.S. Byatt
35) Ian McEwan
36) Geoffrey Hill
37) Hanif Kureishi
38) Iain Banks
39) George MacKay Brown
40) A.J.P. Taylor
41) Isaiah Berlin
42) J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
43) Philip Pullman - Northern Lights ⚜️⚜️ [17.02.2018]
44) Julian Barnes
45) Colin Thubron
46) Bruce Chatwin
47) Alice Oswald
48) Benjamin Zephaniah
49) Rosemary Sutcliff
50) Michael Moorcock

Is this your next year's challenge? I have read 3 of your authors - Tolkien, Pym and Ishiguro. Are you going to add the books? Great list :)

I'd forgotten all about this thread. Good luck Chris.

I might give it a go once I've completed my US States Challenge, but don't hold your breath. I may be some time!

Yes to both, Linda.

I've just started reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee as part of my 2016 reading challenge and thought she may be in this list as well, but alas, no; so this list may have to wait til 2017.

Knowing me, this could change though :-)

I know, Liz. I was in two minds whether to do this one or the US one but chose this as it seemed a bit more suited to me. I still haven't finished the 2015 Genre challenge yet! US may have to wait a while.

Chris wrote: "Yes to both, Linda.

I've just started reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee as part of my 2016 reading challenge and thought she may be in this list as well, bu..."

My list this year changed MANY times :)