Friday, December 10, 2010

The Official List

So I found this the other day and thought," I don't think I've read most of these, and I love to read." So I'm going to be working my through the books that I have no yet read.

I have put the titles I have read in bold print. And if you count those up I've only read 15 outta those 100 !!! So my mom and I talked about doing our own book club to work through these books and our first book will be #76 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. So when I begin reading it I will be posting about it and what I think about it. Happy Reading !!!



  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
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee ( Have it )
  6. The Bible
  7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte ( not looking forward to reading this, I hated the movie)
  8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
  9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
  10. Great Epectations – Charles Dickens (Have it)
  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 Faulks
  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 – 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
  37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini (have it)
  38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres ( have it)
  39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (have it)
  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 McEwan
  51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel (have it)
  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 Huley
  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 – Aleandre 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 Dickens
  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 Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath ( Have it)
  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 – Enid Blyton
  91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Eupery
  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 – Aleandre Dumas
  98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
  99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
  100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

10 comments:

  1. I like your list! I have read 20 so far.

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  2. Lost Horizon, Tom Sawyer, are two books that should be on the list and I don't think I saw Treasure Island

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  4. You doubled up on two, chronicles of Narnia and the lion the witch and the wardrobe, it's in the chronicles. And complete works of shakespeare and hamlet, it's in the complete works. So it's really short two. It's great list.

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  5. Good List. Read many in H.S., a s a personal challenge to read, “The Top 100 Books for College Prep,” and going to start this list. Surprised not to see any by Hemingway though. Also, anyone know the name of the woman who more recently translated, “Anna Karenina.” Supposed to be quite a different translation, but I lost the paper I had written her name on.

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  6. Thanks for including the Bible.
    Not a science fiction fan?

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  7. I've just watched the equaliser and at the end you see a boom he is reading "the invisible Man" which is not on this list which should be on the list as it's in the movie.

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  8. Sorry meant to say book not boom.

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  9. Looking forward to starting on this list but it is more than 100 books. It’s at least 106 as there is at least 7 HP books. Still a great list.

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  10. As an English Lit graduate and teacher, I must say that a book like Ulysses is a very difficult book, although regarded as one of the classic novels in literary canon. If you have concentration problems like I did, just leave it to the end or pass it. We can also add other books, like Old man and the sea, the Tale of Two cities, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Harry Potter, Earthsea...

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