The final countdown - Top ten books
Dec 19 2007 by Chris Robinson, The Journal
BOOKWORMS have made their voices heard when it comes to a good read over the festive season.
Now the final countdown has begun to find the North-East’s favourite book.
Journal readers have until December 30 to make their voices heard when it comes to their favourite things.
Award-winning North-East author David Almond revealed his top 10 last month, inspiring you to get in touch.
Today we publish the list so far in a bid to find the North-East’s favourite.
Whether it be a gritty thriller or a children’s classic, The Journal wants you to vote for your number one book of all time.
David Almond was the first to put pen to paper with his Top 10, which he admits wasn’t easy. In the end, he opted for Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
But the rest of the list has been decided by you.
Now you can help pick who sits on top of the tree.
You can vote for your favourite in a number of ways
Online: Click here to vote for your favourite.
Post: Send your choice to The Journal Newsdesk, Groat Market, Newcastle, NE1 1ED
Email: Send your choice to jnl.newsdesk@ncjmedia.co.uk
Voting will close at midnight on December 30.
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01 Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
02 Moby Dick, Herman Melville
03 One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
04 Collected Short Stories, Raymond Carver
05 Songs and Sonnets, John Donne
06 Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
07 Labyrinth, Jorge Luis Borges
08 One Thousand and One Nights, Various
09 David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
10 Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
11 Dracula, Bram Stoker
12 The Secret History, Donna Tartt
13 Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
14 Possession, AS Byatt
15 Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
16 The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta), Ernest Hemingway
17 The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
18 Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
19 Tess of the D’Urbevilles, Thomas Hardy
20 Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
21 Northern Lights, Philip Pulman
22 A Passage to India, EM Forster.
23 Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
24 Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens.
25 Atonement, Ian McEwan
26 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.
27 War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
28 The Godfather, Mario Puzo
29 The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
30 Dubliners, James Joyce
31 Facing the Dictators, Anthony Eden
32 This Side of Paradise, F Scott Fitzgerald
33 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
34 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
35 Angel Pavement, JB Priestly
36 Difficult loves, Italo Calvino
37 The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
38 Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
39 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver
40 In The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
41 Keep The Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
42 Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
43 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
44 Macbeth, William Shakespeare
45 Adolf Hitler, My Part in His Downfall, Spike Milligan
46 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
47 Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
48 Goodbye To All That, Robert Graves
49 Skellig, David Almond
50 North and South, Gaskell
