It was Harry Potter - now Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell.

after that, college requests I read 'Down and out in Paris and London' (another Orwell) and Jane Austin's 'Emma' (which I have tried, and failed, to read before)

After that I shall read 'The Time Traveller's Wife' because I bought it a while ago but need to read my college books first.
Then I think I will have a bash at Les Miserables.
And if that fails - well I haven't read Lord of the Rings in a while.

Ooh and someone gave me The Count of Monte Cristo for christmas - this is opening up a world of possibilities now I start to think about it!

xLx
p.s.
I also recommend to everyone and anyone a book called 'Lorelli's Secret' by Carolyn Parkhurst - it is lovely but it might make you cry.