Done, for Now

In 2011, I moved to the UK.  Shortly thereafter, I decided to create a "British Reading List" (BRL).  The goal was to read through a list of classic and historic British works, the enjoyment of which would enhance my experience on the island.  I included a few titles I had read in the recent past, and added others based on recommendations of critics, the populace, friends and family, or just personal whim.

Well, today I finished the list.  129 works in all.  Future posts will comment on general trends or 'lessons learned' from the list, but today I post the list in its entirety, for those who care.  Included is the rating I gave each work.

A final comment before presenting the list: is one every truly done when it comes to reading?  I hope not.  So, while my goal is accomplished, it's not as though I'll never read another British work in my life.  In fact, I'm reading one now, and plan to read a dozen more before I leave this land.  So, I'm done with the list, but I'm not really done- and I hope I never will be, until my time on Earth is finished.  There are few more enjoyable or valuable pursuits.

Author	Title	Category	Rating
Geoffrey Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales	Literature	85
Daniel Defoe	Journal of the Plague Year	Literature	85
Shakespeare	Much Ado about Nothing	Literature	89
Shakespeare	Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	Literature	85
Shakespeare	Sonnets	Literature	95
Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Literature	93
Charlotte Brontë	Jane Eyre	Literature	97
Emily Brontë	Wuthering Heights	Literature	85
GK Chesterton	The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare	Literature	97
Lewis Carroll	Alice in Wonderland	Literature	80
Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness	Literature	75
Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	Literature	95
CS Forester	The Happy Return	Literature	91
Aldous Huxley	A Brave New World	Literature	95
Rudyard Kipling	The Jungle Book	Literature	75
George Orwell	Animal Farm	Literature	97
Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	Literature	100
Robert Louis Stevenson	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Literature	100
Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Literature	90
Bram Stoker	Dracula	Literature	100
HG Wells	The Island of Dr Moreau	Literature	90
Oscar Wilde	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Literature	90
Horace Walpole	The Castle of Otranto	Literature	80
(Unknown)	Beowulf	Literature	85
William Golding	Lord of the Flies	Literature	92
Johnathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	Literature	80
RH Barham	The Ingoldsby Legends	Poetry	95
James Hogg	The Private Memoirs and Confessions of . . .	Religion	92
John R.W. Stott	Your Mind Matters	Religion	98
John R.W. Stott	The Radical Disciple	Religion	90
CS Lewis	A Grief Observed	Religion	93
CS Lewis	Mere Christianity	Religion	95
CS Lewis	The Problem of Pain	Religion	95
CS Lewis	Surprised by Joy	Religion	85
CS Lewis	The Screwtape Letters	Religion	98
CS Lewis	The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	Fantasy	98
CS Lewis	Prince Caspian	Fantasy	98
CS Lewis	The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	Fantasy	98
CS Lewis	The Silver Chair	Fantasy	98
CS Lewis	The Horse and His Boy	Fantasy	98
CS Lewis	The Magician's Nephew	Fantasy	98
CS Lewis	The Last Battle	Fantasy	98
JRR Tolkien	The Hobbit	Fantasy	98
JRR Tolkien	The Fellowship of the Ring	Fantasy	98
JRR Tolkien	The Two Towers	Fantasy	95
JRR Tolkien	The Return of the King	Fantasy	98
Terry Pratchett	Mort	Fantasy	83
Roger Lancelyn Green	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Fantasy	90
JK Rowling	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	Fantasy	97
JK Rowling	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Fantasy	96
JK Rowling	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Fantasy	98
JK Rowling	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Fantasy	97
JK Rowling	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Fantasy	96
JK Rowling	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	Fantasy	97
JK Rowling	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	Fantasy	99
(Unknown)	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Arthurian	90
Mallory	Le Morte d'Arthur	Arthurian	80
TH White	The Once and Future King	Arthurian	95
Roger Lancelyn Green	King Arthur & his Knights of the Round Table	Arthurian	70
Bernard Cornwell	The Winter King	Arthurian	100
Bernard Cornwell	Enemy of God	Arthurian	100
Bernard Cornwell	Excalibur	Arthurian	100
Bernard Cornwell	Azincourt	Historical Fiction	95
Ken Follett	Pillars of the Earth	Historical Fiction	97
Ken Follett	World Without End	Historical Fiction	93
Sir Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Historical Fiction	90
Jan-Andrew Henderson	The Town Below the Ground	History/Ghost	80
Alison Weir	The Princes in the Tower	History	80
Bede	Ecclesiastical History of the English People	History	75
Nennius	Historia Brittonum	History	60
Geoffrey of Monmouth	The History of the Kings of Britain	History	79
Thomas Asbridge	The Crusades	History	99
Richard Killeen	A Short History of Ireland	History	85
Walter Lord	A Night to Remember	History	94
Patrick Dillon	The Story of Britain	History	90
Usborne	The Usborne History of Britain	History	93
Simon Jenkins	Short History of England	History	92
Stephen Clarke	A Thousand Years of Annoying the French	History	93
H.E. Marshall	Scotland's Story	History	78
John Paul Davis	Robin Hood: The Unknown Templar	History	65
J.C. Holt	Robin Hood	History	80
Helen Nicholson	A Brief History of the Knights Templar	History	80
Alistair Moffat	The Wall	History	80
Alistair Moffat	Highland Clans	History	70
Marc Morris	Castle	History	90
Nigel Cawthorne	World at War: The Story of WWII	History	85
John Malam	Yorkshire: A Very Peculiar History	History	80
Martin Gilbert	Churchill: The Power of Words	Biography	85
Alan Moore	Watchmen	Graphic Novel	98
Alan Moore	V for Vendetta	Graphic Novel	90
Jack Higgins	The Eagle Has Landed	Thriller	95
Ian Fleming	From Russia with Love	Thriller	82
John le Carré	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Thriller	85
John le Carré	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Thriller	95
Robert Harris	Fatherland	Thriller	95
H. Rider Haggard	King Solomon's Mines	Thriller	95
Agatha Christie	Murder on the Orient Express	Mystery	95
Agatha Christie	The ABC Murders	Mystery	99
Agatha Christie	Five Little Pigs (or, Murder in Retrospect)	Mystery	99
Agatha Christie	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	Mystery	100
Agatha Christie	And Then There Were None	Mystery	95
Arthur Conan Doyle	A Study in Scarlet	Mystery	98
Arthur Conan Doyle	The Sign of the Four	Mystery	92
Arthur Conan Doyle	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Mystery	100
Arthur Conan Doyle	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes	Mystery	91
Arthur Conan Doyle	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Mystery	100
Arthur Conan Doyle	The Return of Sherlock Holmes	Mystery	93
Arthur Conan Doyle	The Valley of Fear	Mystery	93
Arthur Conan Doyle	His Last Bow	Mystery	91
Arthur Conan Doyle	The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes	Mystery	91
M.C. Beaton	A Highland Christmas	Mystery	70
A.A. Milne	Winnie the Pooh	Children's	79
Julia Donaldson	The Gruffalo	Children's	100
Roald Dahl	The Enormous Crocodile	Children's	75
J.M. Barrie	Peter Pan (or, Peter & Wendy)	Children's	95
Douglas Adams	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Humor	90
Various	Magna Carta	Government	95
John C. Lennox	God's Undertaker	Science	95
Stephen Hawking	A Briefer History of Time	Science	85
Henry James	The Turn of the Screw	Ghost	90
M.R. James	A Thin Ghost and other stories	Ghost	85
Sheridan Le Fanu	In a Glass Darkly	Ghost	95
J.H. Riddell	Night Shivers	Ghost	75
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Poetry	90
James Herriot	All Things Bright and Beautiful	Memoir	94
James Herriot	All Creatures Great and Small	Memoir	95
James Herriot	All Things Wild and Wonderful	Memoir	94
James Herriot	The Lord God Made Them All	Memoir	94
James Herriot	Every Living Thing	Memoir	94