Instructions: Copy this. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (no because my daughter still doesn't have the 1st so am not starting)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27: Crime and Punishment by Dosteovsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma-Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwa
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dicken
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Interesting - I've read 17 in full. I'd include different books.
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ReplyDeleteRead several of these (a few more than 6) but just could not get into some!
ReplyDeleteHi dude. There are some on this list that I have not read but would like to.
ReplyDeleteWell, for example...the Bible! Never been religious and good golly, it's so...cave man!
ReplyDeleteAnd "kid" books like Harry Potter and those strange J. R. R. R. R. R. R. R. (Puffenstuff!) Tolkien things! Well...!
Have read the Dickens books on the list, the Steinbeck stuff...and not real sure I want to read all those old English romances. There are many here I probably should try to get to.
I have not read the Harry Potter books but would like to. As far as JRR Tolkein - I read those books as a teen and loved them so much that I read them again in my 30s.
ReplyDeleteAnd I read the Bible as a teen - cover to cover. Not to mention all the parts and pieces of it I was exposed to as a young person growing up. So that was just part of life in my family of origin.
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I didn't count how many...too engrossed in trying to work out the protocol on FB. I agree that there are many authors I would include here, but the list was developed by the BBC and so this is skewed toward the English taste. As for English romances you will be surprised if you haven't read Hardy. His books are social commentaries; my favoirtie is Tess of the D'urblevilles. I have a lot of trouble trying to use Facebook for anything bu commentary and posting too.
ReplyDeleteI like being able to hit "Share" and the credit is given where due and the info shared. That has me spoiled. But if I want to do anything at all creative, like with my photos, or which change of font, I come home to MP.
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ReplyDeleteCounting all that has has been quoted to me would be a lot!!! I've made it through Genesis and the gospels.
ReplyDeleteIt would be hard to miss at least parts of it in this country.
ReplyDeleteI think it was unfair that they listed the Kite Runner instead of A Thousand Splendid Suns which both were by Khaled Hosseini. I could have made A Thousand Splendid Suns bold. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteThat's the problem with lists. They are usually woefully incomplete and often reflect the taste of the person making the list. There is also a difference between reading a book because you were forced to (as in school) and reading a book because you want to read it.
ReplyDeleteA good many of these I found to be dreadfully dreary and boring (but I read them anyway and made my decision afterwards). The might have been the latest and greatest in the 1700's or 1800's when they were written but really don't hold up well in modern times.
I suspect the only reason some of them are read at all anymore is because some teacher thinks they should be for no other reason than they were were forced to read them by an earlier generation.
If you spend your entire life listening to Beethoven, Brahms and Bach and never hear the Beatles, or the Doors or the Beach Boys, you have short changed yourself.
I have read all of The Divine Comedy, but only The Inferno made this list.
ReplyDeleteAs Kitty mentioned, it is a British list. Therefore it leaves off a good many American books that would have been good to mention. And I agree that there are other titles by an author mentioned that might have been just as good to be the one listed.
ReplyDeleteJust checking on Multiply inbox and saw this as an update Mary. I too thought A Thousand Splendid Suns was a book far superior to The Kite Runner.....and I misled all my friends by missing #27: Crime and Punishment by Dosteovsky....I wonder how many would have read this. I am still bogged down in Anna Karenina; I have read perhaps 3/4 of the book but find that it is not worth finding out what happens to this woman if I have to read one more page. Russian writers are just take too long to get to a point. War and Peace still sits on my Kindle: unread.
ReplyDeleteTwenty Seven added via the edit feature. Thank you Kitty as I had wondered what it was. Note that it is not bold.
ReplyDeleteI have not read it but would like to I think. Sounds like it might take me a long time if you are struggling with it though.
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