100 Books Meme

Gacked from pretty much everybody, by now. The BBC's top 100 books list, with the ones I've read indicated in bold. Books I loved and have read multiple times are marked with an asterisk. I have added comments to some as well.

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So, looks like I've read a bit less than half the books? Not too bad. Especially since some of the books I'm not convinced should be on the list at all, plus there are some odd omissions. And some of the others I've been meaning to read for a long time, so I'll have to make a note and take it with me to the library next time I go...

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Comments on the recent BBC Top 100 Books list in the LiveJournal, since the list itself was rather too long to post without a cut tag (one very nice LJ feature for which I wish Blogger had an equivalent).