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One of my intellectual friends from college, Tre Northern, sent this list via facebook. He highlighted the books he had read (WAAAY more than me)- I've read all the bolded ones. I was gratified I'd read so many and frustrated I had so many left to read. Maybe one day I'll have read this entire list.... How many have YOU read??
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
- 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (This is everyone's fave Jane book- I love it but my fave is Persuation)
- 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (awesome awesome awesome)
- 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (Jane is too self sacrificing for me- I wish she had kicked more ass)
- 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (The last one was the kicker)
- 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (I still have my 8th grade copy- great book)
- 6 The Bible- (Ok I NEED to read it- it's a critical I do so but so far I've just read Genesis)
- 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (Wanted to strangle the entire cast- everyone is a JERK in this book!!)
- 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (keep picking up then putting it down in frustration)
- 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (The series FALLS APART after the first book. I mean alien tripods with wheels???? W.T.H PHILIP?????)
- 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (I can fill an entire novel on how much I hate Dickens.)
- 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (Read all these awesome ancient chick lit books)
- 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (UNFAIR! These should be separated into individual works!!!)
- 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (read after I read the other books- put it off 'cause I thought I would hate it)
- 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
- 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (I find this protagonist whiny and obnoxious- very hard to finish- wanted to SLAP him!)
- 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (GREAT book- WHACK movie)
- 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
- 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- 22 The Great Gatsby - (Hard to read because you see the end coming a mile away and it hurts )
- 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (Dude once you get over earth getting blown up you have a great time!!!)
- 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Never will I waste time with this insanely long book- sorry)
- 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Slogged through this and glad I did)
- 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (All time favorite Victorian book. Alice is a snooty impatient chica just like me)
- 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (I would drive like Mr. Toad. Yes I would)
- 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Will be reading this soon- LOVE the Greta Garbon classic movie)
- 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (I kept wanting
- 34 Emma -Jane Austen (Emma is obnoxious but you end up loving her conceited & prejudiced butt anyway- WIERD!)
- 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (This is my fave Jane book- MAJOR dramz in this plot!!))
- 36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (FUN!!! GREAT READ)
- 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (Can't do it- can't get through this sad book)
- 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
- 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (This book is flagrant orientalism)
- 40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne (DUH!!! This is standard kid reading!)
- 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (Wonder if I would be a pig dictator if given the chance?)
- 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Everyone's read this no?)
- 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (A MUST read!)
- 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 (Margaret is required reading for all feminists)
- 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (there's a black and white film good as the book)
- 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
- 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- 52 Dune - Frank Herbert (My Mom is obssesed with Dune and so I had to read in order to understand)
- 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Ahh Jane- if only you'd lived into your 80s)
- 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- 57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (Teacher assigned- made me HATE Dickens- HATE HATE HATE)
- 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (hard to read- made me very angry)
- 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (This man is a GENIOUS)
- 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (My sister brought home all the Steinbecks on hardback and I read most of them- SO GLAD I did)
- 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (sick bastard- great book)
- 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (HARD to read HARDER to put down)
- 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (OMG Alexander is the best adventure writer EVER)
- 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (Read it so I could take some modernist inspired photos- FAILED)
- 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (Wanted to strangle the woman the entire time then read the sequel! ??? I know!!!)
- 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (Call me ISHMAEL. That's the name of my future son- if I have one)
- 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Cannot abide Charles Dickens- HATE his style HATE!!)
- 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (LOVE Victorian horror)
- 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (Read The Little Princess too!)
- 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (need to get on with reading this man's books- he's great)
- 75 Ulysses - James Joyce (I heard this is one of the hardest things to read in the western cannon. Is it?)
- 76 The Inferno - Dante (College assignment I'm deeply glad I read)
- 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
- 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (Read it after watching movie)
- 80 Possession - AS Byatt
- 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (love the movies- will skip the book forever)
- 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (Extremely hard for me to get through first chapter)
- 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (Read it 'cause the movie was HOT)
- 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- 87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White (Everyone should read this!!! How about "Trumpet of the Swan"?)
- 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (I know!)
- 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (This TOTALLY counts for like 10 books!)
- 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (My Mom read this to me)
- 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
- 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (Made me cry cry CRY)
- 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (Been on my list forever but never read)
- 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (My 6th grade art teacher gave me this novel and started my Romantic lit craze)
- 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (read while on vacation in Costa Rica- awesome!)
- 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (read during summer camp)
- 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (tried but found it sorta boring and LONG)
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