My own list of greatest 100 books.

It's been doing the rounds on the internet courtesy of the BBC. The only trouble is that I believe it misses off a lot of superb books at the expense of some dire books that everyone assumes are classics but no-one actually reads. Here is my list:

1. Dune - Frank Herbert
2. Silas Marner - George Elliott
3. Diary of a nobody - Weedon Grossmith
4. Lord of the rings - JRR Tolkien
5. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
6. The magic faraway tree - Enid Blyton
7. Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
8. Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement
9. I am Legend - Richard Matheson
10. Flow my tears, the Policeman said - Philip K. Dick
11. Ringworld - Larry Niven
12. The Railway children - Edith Nesbit
13. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
14. Jingo - Terry Pratchett
15. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
16. The stars my destination - Alfred Bester
17. Pavane - Keith Roberts
18. The city and the stars - Arthur C. Clarke
19. Missee Lee - Arthur Ransome
20. Five dialogues - Plato
21. Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
22. The fifth elephant - Terry Pratchett
23. The enchanted wood - Enid Blyton
24. Rogue Male - Geoffrey Household
25. Animal Farm - George Orwell
26. Redwall - Brian Jacques
27. Cannibal Adventure - Willard Price
28. Magic Kingdom for sale; sold! - Terry Brooks
29. Joe Millard - The good, the bad and the ugly
30. The thirty nine steps - John Buchan
31. Fanny hill - John Cleland
32. Heir to the empire - Timothy Zahn
33. Five go off to camp - Enid Blyton
34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
35. Do androids dream of electric sheep? - Philip K. Dick
36. Mars - Ben Bova
37. Sphere - Michael Crichton
38. Christine - Stephen King
39. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
40. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
41. Magician - Raymond E. Feist
42. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
43. Coot Club - Arthur Ransome
44. Night watch - Terry Pratchett
45. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
46. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
47. Moonfleet - J. Meade Falkner
48. It - Stephen King
49. Red storm Rising - Tom Clancy
50. The Lion the witch and the wardrobe - CS Lewis
51. War of the worlds - HG Wells
52. Blood Music - Greg Bear
53. The Space Merchants - Frederick Pohl
54. 20,000 leagues under the sea - Jules Verne
55. 2010, Odyssey two - Arthur C. Clarke
56. Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
57. Hunt for red October - Tom Clancy
58. The ipcress file - Len Deighton
59. Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams
60. A tale of two cities - Charles Dickens
61. Voyage of the Dawntreader - CS Lewis
62. SS-GB - Len Deighton
63. The time machine - HG Wells
64. 1984 - George Orwell
65. Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
66. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
67. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
68. And quiet flows the don - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
69. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
70. Wind in the willows - Kenneth Grahame
71. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
74. Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
75. Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
76. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
77. Heidi - Johanna Spyri
78. Around the world in 80 days - Jules Verne
79. Behold the man - Michael Moorcock
80. The man in the high castle - Philip K. Dick
81. Winter Holiday - Arthur Ransome
82. Clear and present danger - Tom Clancy
83. Infinity welcomes careful drivers - Grant Naylor
84. Gulliver’s travels - Jonathan Swift
85. The adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
86. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
87. The box of delights - John Masefield
88. The silver chair - CS Lewis
89. We can remember it for you wholesale - Philip K. Dick
90. House Atreides - Brian Herbert
91. Mossflower - Brian Jacques
92. Duncton Wood - William Horwood
93. Volcano Adventure - Willard Price
94. Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard
95. Feet of clay - Terry Pratchett
96. Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
97. Dialogues concerning the natural history of religion - David Hume
98. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - Victor Hugo
99. Phantom of the opera - Gaston Leroux
100.Of mice and men - John Steinbeck