12.13.2010

The Book List

So everyone can see how little I actually read. And so I can have a list of books TO read.

Apparently the BBC claims that most people have read only 6-10 of these books (I've seen both numbers in different posts). Bold the ones you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. And just to confuse you even more, I underlined the ones I still want to read.

  1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein (that's 3)
  3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
  5. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
  6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
  7. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  8. The Bible
  9. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  10. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
  11. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
  12. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  13. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  14. Tess of d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  15. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
  16. Complete Works of Shakespeare
  17. Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier
  18. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein
  19. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
  20. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
  21. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
  22. Middlemarch - George Elliot
  23. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  24. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
  25. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  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- A.A. 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 Tart
  64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
  65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (currently reading)
  66. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
  68. Bridget Jone'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 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 (also currently reading)
  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 Wed - 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
So I've completed 22 of them, have started 13 others, and want to read about 12. I also want to finish some of the started ones. Anyway, there you go- at least I've read more than 10!

4 comments:

Alison said...

I looove To Kill a Mockingbird. :)

Kelsey said...

Niiiiiiiiiiiice.

Yara said...

You have to read the Time Traveler's Wife. I haven't seen the movie, but the book is incredible. Philip Pullman's books are excellent, too -- there's a three book series starting with the Golden Compass.

Chase said...

Thats a impressive list although many of them I would swear people only claim to have read. Somehow I hit 23 of them, a good deal of them were assigned so I guess I cant claim them.