Badger’s Big Read

Tomorrow’s the last day you can vote for your favourite book from the BBC Big Read’s Top 21:

• Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
• Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
• Catch-22, Joseph Heller
• The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
• Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
• His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
• Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
• The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
• The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
• Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

Nobody that’s read this blog before will be surprised to know that I was going to vote for 1984 as my favourite book, that was until I realised that David Blunkett probably had MI5 monitoring the poll for subversive voters. I was pleased to find I’d actually read ten of the top 21 books (eleven, if owning Kate Bush’s Greatest Hits counts as having having read Wuthering Heights…). Two more are currently on my bookshelf waiting to be read, and there are three others on the list that I’m sure I’ll get through at some point. Which leaves six book that I have absolutely no interest in reading—I’ll leave you to guess which. And then it’s on to the rest of the Top 100 Books.

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