I saw this on my friend Rachelle's blog and I loved seeing what she read and wanted to read. Rachelle reads more than most people I know and I love her taste in books.
So here is my list. Apparently the average adult has only read 6 of these books! How sad.
The books in blue are the books I have read and I love.
The books in bold are the ones I have read
The italicized books are the ones I intend to read
I've read 35 of the hundred books.
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
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 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
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 McEwan
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 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
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-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
Any suggestions? Any favorites or my sisters or friends that I haven't read or have marked to read?
10 comments:
Wow what a great post. As soon as I have a minute I am going to look at this closely and see what damage I have done!
Yay! I love when people recommend good books. Some on the list that I COMPLETELY enjoyed (that you haven't marked): David Copperfield, Brave New World, and Gone With the Wind. I also liked Wuthering Heights and Anna Karenina. Have fun reading...I want to go to the library right now.
Yay! I love when people recommend good books. Some on the list that I COMPLETELY enjoyed (that you haven't marked): David Copperfield, Brave New World, and Gone With the Wind. I also liked Wuthering Heights and Anna Karenina. Have fun reading...I want to go to the library right now.
Yay! I love when people recommend good books. Some on the list that I COMPLETELY enjoyed (that you haven't marked): David Copperfield, Brave New World, and Gone With the Wind. I also liked Wuthering Heights and Anna Karenina. Have fun reading...I want to go to the library right now.
Yay! I love when people recommend good books. Some on the list that I COMPLETELY enjoyed (that you haven't marked): David Copperfield, Brave New World, and Gone With the Wind. I also liked Wuthering Heights and Anna Karenina. Have fun reading...I want to go to the library right now.
Oops, I don't know how I managed to leave that comment FOUR times. :-)
I totally love this and am totally going to do this. This is fasinating. Thank you for sharing
I'm glad you enjoyed the list! I have read 25, and I thought that was a pretty good number, but it seems like everyone else who has done the list has read more than me!
I would add A Prayer for Owen Meany and 100 Years of Solitude to your list.
Wow, rmt and I have very different tastes in books! I absolutely hated 100 years of Solitude (as did everyone else in the english class in which I was required to read it), and I actually used to own A Prayer for Owen Meany (bought it as a teenager), but never read more than a couple of chapters because of the language and content-- just seemed really crude to me. I finally gave it away a month or so ago.
Um, so yeah, I've read 22 that I am sure of on the list-- though there are so many others that have been made into movies, or that are such a part of mainstream culture that I am not sure if I've actually read the book or if I've just heard enough to feel like I have!
I really like The Little Prince (its a pretty short, simple read)-- I'd suggest that one. :)
Great list, we've read alot of the same books. I have so many more on the list that I want to read, I didn't bother italicizing or anything.
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