Here’s how it works:- Look at the list and bold those you have read.
- Italicize those you intend to read.
- Reprint this list on your blog and link back to this post.
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 (LOVE them!)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (it’s a work in progress, but I’m going to bold it anyway!)
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
(I heart Little Women)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I’ve read a lot of them…)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (I’ll be reading this in March for my book club.)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (maybe?)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (saw the movie J)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (yeah, not happening.)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
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 (Why is this on here if the Chronicles are also on here?)
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
(Better than the movie)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(I tried, Joelma, really, I tried.)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
(This book was fantastic…. Just get through the first 100 pages. Very thought provoking)
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 (funny that this in on here…)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
(one of my favorites as a child)
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 Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
(Love anything by Bill Bryson)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection (I don’t even know what this IS.)
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
(Did I read this in college? I think I did, but should it really count if I can’t remember?)
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
That looks like 38 total. Not so impressive. I read a LOT, but apparently I need to read BETTER! I love lists like this, because I love marking things off lists! I’ve listed 15 books to try to read.
Here is the challenge! Pick three books that you haven’t read but think you should. And let’s read them together. Leave me a comment with the books you pick!
14 comments:
Hmmm...
"Crime and Punishment" I had to read for school. I copped out and got the abridged book on tape and still could not get through it!
I, too, read a lot, but apparently also need to read better. There are a few on here I would like to try. Since I have about 16 hours/ month in the car, I might do book on CD.
Does it count if I saw the movie?
Even with counting the movies... that brings you up to what... the five Harry Potters?
I have read 20. About half were from high school and college and the other half as an adult. I used to be in a book club and really miss it. BTW Time Traveller's Wife is very interesting, you'll have to tell me what you think after you read it in March (how do you already know what youa re going to read 6 months from now?!?!)
I'm so glad that you used Mr. Linky. I tinkered with him a couple of nights ago, and plan to use him on Friday, so now i can enlist your help (as always). Way to stay a step ahead. Love ya!
Thanks for coming by my blog today, Andrea! I responded to your comment, but my dad used to sell Charles Chips, so I asked him to get me some cans a few years ago. (And he passed away about two years ago, so they are actually really special to me. I am glad you noticed them.)
I liked seeing your book list, too!
I am terrible but I probably read every one of those Nancy Drew books on your book shelf.
Okay, I'm in... I'll come back to do the linky thing later tonight!
I added your list to my blog and gave you props and a link. I'm one shy of 50% on the book list. That was both fun and full of annoying Lit. class memories.
I used to read all the time and haven't in years. I just bought "Love in the Time of Cholera" 3 days ago! I've only read 4 pages. I've had DaVinci Code for about 3-4 years and got to about page 50. I've had "Stephen Colbert's I Am America and So Can You!" for a year--on page 120ish.
MMMMM Do you see trend here? I just never seem to have time
I am with Jim on seeing the movie! Still, haven't done so great with that!
BTW...Mr. Linky??? oh, Troye!
oh, Kim, good call. I have read those Nancy Drew ones, too!
I am bad with having time to read right now. But I just read The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein and it was the best book ever. I am now onto Stori Telling by Tori Spelling :)
Andrea, the three books I pick are The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and A Confederacy of Dunces. (I got two of them at the library yesterday and have already read the dog one - it was pretty good!) Which are your three?
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