Rating Guide

I have given each book a rating out of ten at the bottom of its review. Anything rated 8, 9 or 10/10 come highly recommended whereas anything 5/10 or below I would not recommend. 

I have sorted all of my reviews by rating under each heading, listed alphabetically by title (excluding 'A' and 'The', with the films at the bottom of each list).

10/10 - Utter perfection! 
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Christine - Stephen King
Filth - Irvine Welsh
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Horns - Joe Hill
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Loved Dead - C.M. Eddy Jr. and H.P. Lovecraft 
Notre-Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo

9/10 - Practically perfect in every way
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Grotesque - Natsuo Kirino
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson 
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
In the Tall Grass - Stephen King and Joe Hill 
Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier 
Little Women and Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Misery - Stephen King
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro 
Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett  
A View from the Bridge - Arthur Miller 
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
Film: The Dark Knight Rises - Christopher Nolan

8/10 - Excellent
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
Around the World in 80 Days - Michael Palin
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Charmed Life - Diana Wynne Jones
CRAWLSPACE - Evans Light
Fluffs - Daniel I. Russell
Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse - Chris Riddell
The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
Let's Go Play at the Adams' - Mendal W. Johnson 
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
Naomi's Room - Jonathan Aycliffe
Nightmare at 20, 000 Feet - Richard Matheson 
NOS4R2 - Joe Hill
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 
The Witches - Roald Dahl
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Film: The Amazing Spider-Man - Marc Webb
Film: The Cat Returns - Hiroyuki Morita
Film: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Jackson

7/10 - Very good
Afraid - Jack Kilborn
And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini 
Evil Water - Inger Wolf
Gerald's Game - Stephen King
How to Talk to Girls at Parties - Neil Gaiman
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Off Season - Jack Ketchum
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
Piercing - Ryu Murakami
The Running Man - Stephen King
The Scapegoat - Daphne du Maurier 
Your Voice in My Head - Emma Forrest
Film: Brave - Mark Andrews
Film: Jackie Brown - Quentin Tarantino

6/10 - Good
11/22/63 - Stephen King
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Harbinger - David J. Bright
Kin - Kealan Patrick Burke
A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI - Graham Chapman
Scary Fucking Stories - D. F. Noble 
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn 

5/10 - OK
Conversations in the Abyss - Michael Brookes
The Five - Robert McCammon
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
The Rats - James Herbert 

4/10 - Bad, but worthy of some praise

Almost Transparent Blue - Ryu Murakami
The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
 

3/10 - Very bad
The Haunted - Michaelbrent Collings

2/10 - Terrible

1/10 - One of the worst books I have ever read