Published on 05 October 2008
Hits: 346
| # | Title | Author | Read | Own* | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |||
| 2 | The Lord of the Rings | JRR Tolkien | Yes | Yes | I've read this several times. Not light reading. If you are really into the books I recommend some of the supplimentary material like the Silmarilion. The movies were fun too. |
| 3 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | |||
| 4 | The Harry Potter Series | JK Rowling | Yes | Yes | Just finished reading these. I'm in the process of finishing the movies now. Very enjoyable. Not a "challenging" read, but fun. |
| 5 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | Yes | I read this in High School English. | |
| 6 | The Bible | Some | Yes | I had plans at one point to read this, the Koran, the Book of Mormon. Didn't make it very far though. | |
| 7 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | |||
| 8 | Nineteen Eighty Four | George Orwell | Yes | Yes | Big Brother is watching you... |
| 9 | His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | |||
| 10 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |||
| 11 | Little Women | Louisa M Alcott | Yes | Yes | High School English |
| 12 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | Yes | I've picked it up once or twice and could never really get going. | |
| 13 | Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | |||
| 14 | Complete Works of Shakespeare | Some | Yes | I can't say I've read thecompleteworks.... | |
| 15 | Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | |||
| 16 | The Hobbit | JRR Tolkien | Yes | Yes | I read this as part of the LoTR above. The animated movie was fun too. I'm also looking forward to the live action movie coming out. |
| 17 | Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks | |||
| 18 | Catcher in the Rye | JD Salinger | |||
| 19 | The Time Traveller's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | |||
| 20 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | |||
| 21 | Gone With The Wind | Margaret Mitchell | |||
| 22 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | Yes | High School English | |
| 23 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |||
| 24 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | |||
| 25 | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Yes | Yes | I've read all five books in the trilogy AND played the text adventure. The movie was... okay. |
| 26 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | |||
| 27 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |||
| 28 | Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | Some | Yes | I read enough to write my book report (which I got a dismal grade on as I remember) |
| 29 | Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Yes | Yes | If you want to read this pick up a copy of The Annotated Alice edited by Martin Gardner. |
| 30 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | Yes | Disney Trivia, if you ride the Pooh ride in Disney World and look over your shoulder as you go around the first turn, through the first door there is a picture of Mr Toad giving a deed to Mr Owl from Pooh. This is a tribute to the fact that the Pooh ride was built over the old Mr Toad's Wild Ride. | |
| 31 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | |||
| 32 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | |||
| 33 | Chronicles of Narnia | CS Lewis | Yes | Yes | |
| 34 | Emma | Jane Austen | |||
| 35 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | |||
| 36 | The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe | CS Lewis | Yes | Yes | Not sure why this is seperate from the entire Chronicles at 33. The movie was good enough. |
| 37 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | |||
| 38 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis De Bernieres | |||
| 39 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | Yes | Yes | The book was amazing and the movie was a visual feast. |
| 40 | Winnie the Pooh | AA Milne | |||
| 41 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | Yes | Yes | Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad |
| 42 | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | Yes | Yes | |
| 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 | Yes | Yes | High School English. Creeeepy. |
| 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 | Yes | Yes | Tell me about the rabbits George |
| 62 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | |||
| 63 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt | |||
| 64 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | |||
| 65 | Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | Yes | Yes | The movie was okay as well. |
| 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 | A whale of tale I've heard... (sorry... I had to...) | ||
| 71 | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | |||
| 72 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | Movie | ||
| 73 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Movie | ||
| 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 | Yes | ||
| 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 | Yes | Yes | |
| 88 | The Five People You Meet In Heaven | Mitch Albom | |||
| 89 | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Some | ||
| 90 | The Faraway Tree Collection | Enid Blyton | |||
| 91 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | |||
| 92 | The Little Prince | Antoine De Saint-Exupery | I only remember the cartoon series vaguely... from the 80's I think | ||
| 93 | The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | |||
| 94 | Watership Down | Richard Adams | Another book I've picked up a couple times and never really gotten into. | ||
| 95 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | |||
| 96 | A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | |||
| 97 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | Yes | Yes | The movie was good but as I remember it was nothing like the book. |
| 98 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Yes | Yes | College English. I saw one of the many movies and it was okay. |
| 99 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | Yes | Yes | The new movie good and dark. The old movie good and fluffy. Not really sure which was "better". |
| 100 | Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | Play | I've seen the play... does that count? |
[*] I'm not 100% on the "Own" column. I'll update that as time goes by.
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