100 Books List
I found this at Kim’s Play Place, who found it at Harriet Tubman Agenda, who found it at The Headmistress, who found it at …
Bold those you have read.
Italicize those you intend to read.
Alas, watching the movie doesn’t count.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (read with daughter)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (I was introduced to it through an article in Boston Globe about its explosion in the UK.)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (had to read, loved the movie, loved the book)
6 The Bible (old Testament, bits of the New)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (hated everyone in it)
8 1984 - George Orwell (school assignment)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass only)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (high school assignment)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (read as daughter read)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (I'm guessing this was a school assignment)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (didn't really enjoy)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (read in college)
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (read two summers ago -loved it)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (read twice, but only because I had forgotten)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (saving for when I am really old - I enjoy Tolstoy)
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (When, as an adult, I decided to become a reader, c. 1990, this is the very first book I chose at a used book store.)
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 (as part of a book club)
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (as part of a book club)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (school assignment)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - only started
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (as part of a book club)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (hard to read)
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (as part of a book club)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (as part of a book club)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (Saw and loved the movie.)
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 (Made a huge impact on me recently.)
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 (A personal challenge to myself.)
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 (I wanted to read about the slow descent into madness - was not impressed.)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt (I loved this book. It was read as part of a book club.)
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 (bought it, never got into it)
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 (Oui. French class.)
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 (hated it)
98 Hamlet – Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (a high school assignment)
How’d you do with the list?
Bold those you have read.
Italicize those you intend to read.
Alas, watching the movie doesn’t count.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (read with daughter)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (I was introduced to it through an article in Boston Globe about its explosion in the UK.)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (had to read, loved the movie, loved the book)
6 The Bible (old Testament, bits of the New)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (hated everyone in it)
8 1984 - George Orwell (school assignment)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass only)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (high school assignment)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (read as daughter read)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (I'm guessing this was a school assignment)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (didn't really enjoy)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (read in college)
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (read two summers ago -loved it)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (read twice, but only because I had forgotten)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (saving for when I am really old - I enjoy Tolstoy)
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (When, as an adult, I decided to become a reader, c. 1990, this is the very first book I chose at a used book store.)
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 (as part of a book club)
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (as part of a book club)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (school assignment)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - only started
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (as part of a book club)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (hard to read)
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (as part of a book club)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (as part of a book club)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (Saw and loved the movie.)
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 (Made a huge impact on me recently.)
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 (A personal challenge to myself.)
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 (I wanted to read about the slow descent into madness - was not impressed.)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt (I loved this book. It was read as part of a book club.)
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 (bought it, never got into it)
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 (Oui. French class.)
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 (hated it)
98 Hamlet – Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (a high school assignment)
How’d you do with the list?
Comments
I think if I do it, I'll re-order things and add Atlas in there. And to compensate, I'll happily remove drivel like "5 People You Meet in Heaven".
I look forward to reading it.