From Semicolon, here's a fun book list: bold the ones you read, italicize the ones you mean to read, star the ones you loved, and strikeout/x out the ones you hated or refuse to read. :-)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
*2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
*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 X
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [maybe]
14. Complete Works of *Shakespeare [I've read a lot, but not all, and loved some: how do you mark that?
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [maybe]
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot [maybe]
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 [maybe...it's so long and Russian]
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 X [Lewis Carroll disturbs me. His fairy tales are written by the Grownup In the Room, with a wink and a nod and cultural references I don't get.]
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 [Wasn't that included in #33?]
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40. *Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
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 (Started but didn't like it)
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding [maybe]
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel X [Too disgusting for me]
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 X
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X [Picked it up and put it down again]
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac X
67 .Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X [Hardy again!]
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
75. Ulysses - James Joyce X
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X [I can't take Plath, whether she's brilliant or not]
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 X [She ignored her daughter while raising her, who grew up to repudiate everything Alice believed. What kind of recommendation is that?]
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 X
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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 [Started it once; I think I'll go back.]
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [In the middle of it!]
98. *Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables– Victor Hugo [Maybe]
Query: why did Bridget Jones' Diary beat out Brothers Karamazov?
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3 comments:
You haven't read The Count of Monte Cristo?!!
You need to go read it. :-)
I know! I will. :-)
I like this list…mostly, although some titles seem to be missing, while other should be.
So I’m not the only person who didn’t care for Lewis Carroll. That makes me feel better.
You might want to consider the Da Vinci Code. I read it, and it made National Treasure look plausible. Than again, there are plenty of better books to spend your time in.
I’m rather horrified, though, that you haven’t read “A Christmas Carol”
Oh, and I recently discovered Arsène Lupin, the French “gentleman thief” and contemporary/rival of the great “Holmlock Sheares” (also at times translated “Herlock Sholmes”), who makes Danny Ocean look like an amateur.
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