100 Books List - which ones have you read?

[loosefanbelt]

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The Mothership England's BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits "stack" up?

Instructions:Place an 'x' before those you have read.

BTW, I would have loved to make this a poll, but polls are limited to 20 options, so that would have made this a 4 segment posting. If people thing that is a good idea, comment on the post and I will try it...

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 Faulk
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
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 Meany - 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 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
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

[Rudy]

55

I'm not sure why they'd include Hamlet and The Complete Works of Shakespeare.

[loosefanbelt]

55

I'm not sure why they'd include Hamlet and The Complete Works of Shakespeare.

Yes, I saw that. Also they listed The Chronicles of Narnia. That is a series of seven books, and then they list The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, which is one of those 7. So, I am not sure why they parsed it out this way. I just like LISTS! and also it gives me a target to work toward.

I have read 44 - also I am wondering about reading some of them again, because my recollection of them is scanty.

[Rudy]

Yes, I saw that. Also they listed The Chronicles of Narnia. That is a series of seven books, and then they list The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, which is one of those 7. So, I am not sure why they parsed it out this way. I just like LISTS! and also it gives me a target to work toward.

Hmm, I missed that second one. I should have caught it, since I got two points out of it. :)

[Cocoa]

Way behind you guys... only 22! :(
I blame it on text books and non-fiction which I read a lot.

Oh well, I'll pick some of these up in the summer!

[Trenchant1]

23. I have started to read quite a lot of the rest but didn't find them interesting enough. I'm not inclined to press on if I'm not getting anything out of a book. I'm not really a fiction reader either.
If the question was 'how many of these books have you got?' I could answer about 90. I just haven't got around to reading them yet. Maybe when I retire.

[Rudy]

If the question was 'how many of these books have you got?' I could answer about 90. I just haven't got around to reading them yet. Maybe when I retire.

Hah! I definitely sympathize. Like, "Les Miserables" is sitting on my shelf; it's a frikken enormous book, and I just could not get into it. "Someday," though...

[MaleVolentworld]

I have read 1, I am considerably superior to all of you.

However, I don't read fiction but I am beginning to, at the moment I have The Iliad and The Odyssey to read, and The Histories by Herodotus which is a mix of history and fiction.

I've read that Aristophanes the ancient Greek wrote a lot of comedy so I want to check him out too.

[Rudy]

I've read that Aristophanes the ancient Greek wrote a lot of comedy so I want to check him out too.

He's great. I'm more of a Sophocles guy, but Aristophanes wrote some good stuff. I especially enjoyed Lysistrata.

[TheLastMohican]

Do abridged versions count? I've read the unabridged versions of seven from the list, and abridged versions of 26.

[Synamon]

Yeesh, I don't remember every book I've read. My best guess would be a third of those.

edit: I went down the list and ticked off 33, I'm a good guesser. :cheesy:

[Mozzes]

I generally can't stand Victorian literature so about half that list is anathema to me.

[Josephine1012]

28

There are a few dubious ones I haven't checked because I can't remember if I had to read them for school or not, either way they didn't leave an impression (obviously) so they probably don't count towards my overall education.


There are a few books on that list I haven't read, but would love to read.

[Synamon]

I generally can't stand Victorian literature so about half that list is anathema to me.

The list is pretty top heavy with those to be sure. A third of the top 20 are 'romance' novels that probably wouldn't appeal to many men.

[Rudy]

A third of the top 20 are 'romance' novels that probably wouldn't appeal to many men.

I liked several of them. *wonders if that says something about him*

Of those top 20, I also read Little Women, and I'm not sure how anyone could like that book.

[darynthe]

Only 26. I thought I was a good reader. I have read more Agatha Christies than that, like 33. hahahaha I am terrible love reading junk.
Ok, when I have time I will read all the list. Less Sherlock Holmes. It is so frigging dull.

[Allie]

34. Count me in as having some of those books on the shelves, but haven't read them yet.

[Autoptic]

'6 though I'm not sure of two others. Most classic anything is just hype. I couldn't get through the first chapter of Dune with all the internal monologues, about politics no less.

[Mozzes]

Well keep in mind this isn't exactly a list of classics. Notable writers missing from the list: Hemingway, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, Pearl Buck, Ralph Ellison, Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, Edith Wharton and Robert Graves.

There's also some questionable inclusions. The Brothers Karamazov is better than Crime and Punishment and blows War and Peace away.

[Rudy]

There's also some questionable inclusions. The Brothers Karamazov is better than Crime and Punishment and blows War and Peace away.
True.

Some of you would probably get a kick out of To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. which humorously condenses books into a few lines. For example, Pride & Prejudice:


Mr. Darcy: Nothing is good enough for me.

Ms. Elizabeth Bennet: I could never marry that proud man.

(They change their minds.)

THE END

Or, Tale of Two Cities:

Doctor released, Marquis deceased,
Darnay acquitted, Monarchy submitted,
Marriage announced, Darnay denounced,
Places are switched, Blades are twitched,
Seamstress cries, Carton dies.

THE END

[dalidaisy]

From my best guestimate, I've read about 38 of them. Just don't ask me to quote them. Most I read in my youth, when I actually had time to read...

Of those top 20, I also read Little Women, and I'm not sure how anyone could like that book.

I concur! If you have read books from this list, what's your favorite? Mine would be Nineteen Eighty Four or Brave New World...

[Rudy]

I concur! If you have read books from this list, what's your favorite? Mine would be Nineteen Eighty Four or Brave New World...

Those are both good ones, though my favorite dystopia is Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood, which is not on there.

Of the ones on there, my favorite is probably Of Mice & Men, though it is a close call.

[Autoptic]

From my best guestimate, I've read about 38 of them. Just don't ask me to quote them. Most I read in my youth, when I actually had time to read...



I concur! If you have read books from this list, what's your favorite? Mine would be Nineteen Eighty Four or Brave New World...

The local library sucked when I was a kid, so I had to extrapolate my own. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy wins easily. Most things fit patterns I've already figured out and was bored with before I was finished. 'Rather like life and people really. DNA was bloody hard to predict, and I just loved his rhetorical flourish.

[darynthe]

You know what, we need to start a thread to put together a 100 list of books that you must read before you die. You know, not only hype or classics, but include science, philosophy, biography, greek and roman classics, one book of famous writers, some guilty pleasures, etc. Make it really broad, like what you would recommend an alien to read if he came to earth.

[hongi]

Does the Reader's Digest Condensed version count?

"44, about half for reading requirements in English classes"

[Rudy]

You know what, we need to start a thread to put together a 100 list of books that you must read before you die.

There's no way we could get agreement. What might be more feasible is a thread where everyone puts their, personal, list of top ten books to read before you die.

[darynthe]

There's no way we could get agreement. What might be more feasible is a thread where everyone puts their, personal, list of top ten books to read before you die.

Yeah, of course, no consensus possible, however, by the end of the project there could be a committee of editors to decide what to include in the final list with comments. We can publish it afterwards as an article in a magazine or blog.

[Trenchant1]

Yeah, of course, no consensus possible, however, by the end of the project there could be a committee of editors to decide what to include in the final list with comments. We can publish it afterwards as an article in a magazine or blog.

Impossible task, in my opinion. There are too many good books. Which is nice.

[Merle]

78.
All right and proper for an English Lit student.

[Rudy]

78.
All right and proper for an English Lit student.

And my lead has been destroyed. ;)

[Shinqui]

Damn, does no one follow instructions around here?

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
X 6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
X 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
X 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
X 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
X 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
X 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
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
X 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
X 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
X 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
X 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
X 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
X 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
M 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
M 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
X 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
X 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
X 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
X 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
X 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
X 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
X 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
M 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
M 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
X 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
X 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
X 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
T 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

So that makes 26/100 read, a couple film adaptations and of course Les Mis in the theatre, a couple of times. As for my favorite from this list, it would have to be The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck was simply amazing in my opinion.

There are many authors on here who seem to have the wrong books listed as the ones that one should read. Crime and Punishment? Cmon, read Notes From the Underground instead, or how about A Prayer for Owen Meany? The 158 Pound Marriage is really the best thing he's ever said. Of course, your milage may vary.

[Synamon]

There are many authors on here who seem to have the wrong books listed as the ones that one should read. Crime and Punishment? Cmon, read Notes From the Underground instead, or how about A Prayer for Owen Meany? The 158 Pound Marriage is really the best thing he's ever said. Of course, your milage may vary.
Agreed, Owen Meany doesn't even make my top 3 for Irving's own books, not sure why it's on the list.

I was thinking all morning what my favorite book from the list was and couldn't narrow it down. I could only come up with my favorites from specific authors. A Tale of Two Cities is my favorite Dickens, War and Peace for Tolstoy, Cider House Rules for John Irving, The Hobbit for Tolkien, The Handmaiden's Tale for Atwood, Animal Farm for Orwell, etc.

[Prunesquallor]

69.

Why is the DaVinci Code there? that book is the most [expletive][expletive][expletive] piece of [expletive] I have ever heard of. Well, except Twilight.

[Cthulhu]

46, as best as I can count.

Three listings for Thomas Hardy compared to only one for Joseph Conrad hardly seems just to me.

[darynthe]

69.

Why is the DaVinci Code there? that book is the most [expletive][expletive][expletive] piece of [expletive] I have ever heard of. Well, except Twilight.

Hating Twilight seems more contagious than the flu this year. LOL And very fashionable. :p

[Kisai]

19 and I have a Baccalaurates in English.

I'm surprised not to see *any* classic Greek lit., (Iliad, Odyssey, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Greek plays), nor the Aeneid. I've taken a course in Shakespere, but there's no way that I've read his complete works. There's also no Paradise Lost, Faust, Romantic poetry (Shelley, Byron, Blake), Borges, Lovecraft, or even *gasp* Stephen King (who is a hack, but The Stand and Misery are worth reading).

[Cocoa]

Only 26. I thought I was a good reader. I have read more Agatha Christies than that, like 33. hahahaha I am terrible love reading junk.
Ok, when I have time I will read all the list. Less Sherlock Holmes. It is so frigging dull.


Is it really?? Oh no, I was hoping to read that next.... :(

BTW, within the bible... does each book count individually?? :P





Cocoa added to this post, 3 minutes and 6 seconds later...

There's no way we could get agreement. What might be more feasible is a thread where everyone puts their, personal, list of top ten books to read before you die.

Couldn't we count all the submissions from the top 10 books, and then the top 100 can become the 100 books before death? ...it's doable... altho cumbersome:)

[loosefanbelt]

Damn, does no one follow instructions around here?.

HA! I have a busy day today and I only have a minute. I thought it would be nice to actually talk about the books we have read, that is why I thought we could all post what our books were...

I also like darynthe's general idea, but think it needs tweeking for the "herding cats" that is the forum.

I am off to another meeting - maybe I should have not posted this when I am not around to participate... but I will be later. I love the general discussion, which is what I was hoping for, so thank you. Even arguing over books is great fun!

[darynthe]

Is it really?? Oh no, I was hoping to read that next.... :(

BTW, within the bible... does each book count individually?? :P


Well I tried reading Sherlock a few times, couldn't move past the twentieth page. But maybe it is just me. At the time my English was barely opearational.

[Cthulhu]

Hating Twilight seems more contagious than the flu this year. LOL And very fashionable. :p

C'mon, it's crap.
I hate plenty of other things too..

It's not quite Bram Stoker, is it?

[Prunesquallor]

19 and I have a Baccalaurate's in English.

I'm surprised not to see *any* classic Greek lit., (Iliad, Odyssey, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Greek plays), nor the Aeneid. I've taken a course in Shakespere, but there's no way that I've read his complete works. There's also no Paradise Lost, Faust, Romantic poetry (Shelley, Byron, Blake), Borges, Lovecraft, or even *gasp* Stephen King (who is a hack, but The Stand and Misery are worth reading).

Agree with you on everything except Stephen King.

Borges, especially. I love Borges.

[Merle]

It is a pretty terrible list, I'm fairly sure it's the one that was voted by the public as their favourite books a few years ago, which explains the plethora of dross and the most-famous-book-from-a-great-author syndrome that seems to be endemic in it.

[darynthe]

...
I also like darynthe's general idea, but think it needs tweeking for the "herding cats" that is the forum.



What do you mean herding cats? (I sometimes have problems with the obvious, sorry)

However, I am already thinking of categories for the thread. I may post it on the weekend. (Maybe you can help if you have time)

It is a pretty terrible list, I'm fairly sure it's the one that was voted by the public as their favourite books a few years ago, which explains the plethora of dross and the most-famous-book-from-a-great-author syndrome that seems to be endemic in it.

I think it is a list of the lists who made the top of the most read. In other words these are the best sellers of all time.

[Synamon]

What do you mean herding cats? (I sometimes have problems with the obvious, sorry)


It's a saying, it means something is nearly impossible to do. She means that getting us independent INTJs to follow instructions is difficult.

Just for comparison, how many of the top 100 banned books (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)have all of you read?

[idem]

I have read 28, and there are probably another five sitting around on my bookshelf (I wonder if I'll ever get around to reading Moby-Dick).

[rara avis]

Interesting, odd list.

I've fully read 27 of those, and failed to complete 8 more - due to being either bored out of my mind or unable to bear description of dying rabbits. And I don't think I've read the entire Bible... I mean... Numbers? Really?

I have no plans to read any Dickens, or Dan Brown - so I'll never hit the 100 mark. I'm OK with that.

[Bobert]

13!

[Kisai]

Agree with you on everything except Stephen King.

Borges, especially. I love Borges.

That's okay on King. I just included him because, like him or hate him, some of his works are seminal.

Borges is a genius. There's no other way to describe his best work.

[altoid]

I've only read 44. I have several of books on that list sitting on my bookshelf as well, waiting to be read. I have a hard time imagining most people will have read only six of those. I read many of them in high school English courses.


Just for comparison, how many of the top 100 banned books (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)have all of you read?

Only 20. I was surprised at some of the titles included on that list. A Wrinkle In Time, for example - I *loved* that book as a child. I can't relate to the desire to ban any book though, so it always surprises me a little.

... or even *gasp* Stephen King (who is a hack, but The Stand and Misery are worth reading).

I've never read Misery, but The Stand and The Shining are the only works of his I've been able to get through without getting overly bored or irritated.

[Kisai]

Interesting, odd list.

I've fully read 27 of those, and failed to complete 8 more - due to being either bored out of my mind or unable to bear description of dying rabbits. And I don't think I've read the entire Bible... I mean... Numbers? Really?



The Bible's actually a hoot to read. there's a section in Numbers that describes very clearly how to make an enclosed altar for talking with God, twice, and the Christians completely ignore this.

[Bobert]

IMO, Stephen King has good stories, but is not a good writer. I'll stick with the movies for his stuff.

[Rudy]

Borges, especially. I love Borges.
Dreamtigers!

It is a pretty terrible list, I'm fairly sure it's the one that was voted by the public as their favourite books a few years ago, which explains the plethora of dross and the most-famous-book-from-a-great-author syndrome that seems to be endemic in it.
This sounds right to me.

It's a saying, it means something is nearly impossible to do. She means that getting us independent INTJs to follow instructions is difficult.

Just for comparison, how many of the top 100 banned books (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)have all of you read?
I'll have to count, but I'm shocked to not find Lolita on there. Oh, wait, it's banned in the last decade.

The Bible's actually a hoot to read. there's a section in Numbers that describes very clearly how to make an enclosed altar for talking with God, twice, and the Christians completely ignore this.
Agreed; it's a hoot! :)

Ok, go on, I am really interested in your POV. Now why you think it is successful. Don't come with something that says nothing such as that people who read is dumb. Even for pleasing dumb people there must be an interesting psychological aspect at play.

It's badly written. That doesn't mean that all the people who enjoy it are somehow inferior, it just means that they have a low threshold for writing quality.

[Prunesquallor]

Just for comparison, how many of the top 100 banned books (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)have all of you read?

Thirty-six.
Quite a lot of those are children's books - I didn't read that many of them.

[TheLastMohican]

Just for comparison, how many of the top 100 banned books (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)have all of you read?

I've read six of them, and read abridged versions (or know the stories equivalently) of eight others.

[Rudy]

Just for comparison, how many of the top 100 banned books (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)have all of you read?

Only 24... that makes me frowny: :(

[Mozzes]

Probably a good 3/4 of those banned books I've never even heard off.

[rara avis]

Banned Books: 32.

The trick with that list is in having read a lot of kids' books - those are the ones that get everyone up in arms to ban/burn stuff.
:scared: The children! Think of the children!!!

[graciela224]

OP: 31.
Top Banned Books: 20.
I'd better get reading!

Do these lists have a partiuclar order?

[Mozzes]

Banned Books: 32.

The trick with that list is in having read a lot of kids' books - those are the ones that get everyone up in arms to ban/burn stuff.
:scared: The children! Think of the children!!!

Uhhhh...I still read childrens' books... :shy:

[rara avis]

Uhhhh...I still read childrens' books... :shy:

And that's why your poor little mind is so warped. Stick to the bible stories, my friend.

[Rudy]

Do these lists have a partiuclar order?

This is not a list of books that you should actively seek to read, it is a list based on a popularity contest for books. Sometimes the two are the same, very often they are not.

[Mozzes]

And that's why your poor little mind is so warped. Stick to the bible stories, my friend.

No thanks, ma'am. I haven't cracked open a Bible since I was suspended for attempting to reenact Judges 19 on the playground.

[Shinqui]

Just for comparison, how many of the top 100 banned books (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)have all of you read?

17, is this list a joke or something, Judy Bloom, Handmaid's Tale, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Outsiders!!???!!!??

I think I'm going to be ill.

[WyohKnott]

Huh, I thought we were supposed to put X's next to all that we'd read? Oh well, I'll do it, even if I'm the only one :)

In spoiler tags, cause it's way too long otherwise:

X 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
X 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
X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
X 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
X15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
X16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
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
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
X26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
X29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
X30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
X33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
X34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
X36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
X39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
X40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
X41 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 Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
x46 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
x54 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
x73 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
x81 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
x87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
x88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
x89 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
x94 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
x98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
x99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I've read 25 of them. It is kind of a weird list... it's missing some that I would expect, and a lot of ones that are on there seem a little random. I mean, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Really?

Now for banned books: I've read 17 from that list. Somewhere I found explanations for the most common bannings... I don't remember where, unfortunately.

Also, I'd love to discuss Twilight, but I think that probably belongs in a different thread :)

[Merle]

37 on the banned books list...banned from where? I'd read 30 of the 37 before I was 12... not exactly racy stuff.


BORGES! (just a little exclamation in solidarity with the other Borges lovers on this thread)
My favourite will always be 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote', it tickles me just thinking about it.

[Synamon]

Also, I'd love to discuss Twilight, but I think that probably belongs in a different thread :)
Excellent idea, I moved the Twilight discussion to it's own thread. Twilight - Love it or hate it? (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[Wapiti]

Ummmm, I think 2, maybe 3. I've seen several of them with my own eyes before though, does that count for anything. I may have even touched a few. I'm afraid to even look at the banned list for fear I'd be just as equal with the reading of those. There's just not enough pictures. If only Dr. Seuss books were on the list.

[True Rune]

I've read 12 on that list. Typically I don't read fiction unless I have to for school.
If it counts for more points I've read the entire bible.

Would've been cool if some plays, or candide were on the list.

[Aaron Burr]

I love to read so this should prove interesting...
OP:60
Banned books:18 But most of those books are about sex or puberty. I prefer the fiction and classics.

Edit:
If it counts for more points I've read the entire bible.


Only counts as more if you are a catholic. :)

[Merle]

The Guardian newspaper recently did a 1000 novels everyone must read... all broken down by genre etc
The lists are better than this but still not perfect:
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[loosefanbelt]

Okay, I am back, but a wee bit o' th' worse for my relationship with a margarita!

I am happy over this discussion. I think one way to "get at" the intelligences within our company of smarties is to post bite-sized lists of our most esteemed reads. I think the list works because it is not a matter of debate, it is YOUR top reads. You set the category: Fiction, nonfiction, science, or bookstore brand and so forth. And, maybe limited to 10 as anything longer might seem like chore. I, for one, would like to know what is good reads in all categories of interests on the forum. Of course I am pretty drunk right now and might regret it in the morning... ;)

[Rudy]

The Guardian newspaper recently did a 1000 novels everyone must read... all broken down by genre etc
The lists are better than this but still not perfect:
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1000? *boggles* Does reading through the list count as one?

[Merle]

Okay, I am back, but a wee bit o' th' worse for my relationship with a margarita!

I am happy over this discussion. I think one way to "get at" the intelligences within our company of smarties is to post bite-sized lists of our most esteemed reads. I think the list works because it is not a matter of debate, it is YOUR top reads. You set the category: Fiction, nonfiction, science, or bookstore brand and so forth. And, maybe limited to 10 as anything longer might seem like chore. I, for one, would like to know what is good reads in all categories of interests on the forum. Of course I am pretty drunk right now and might regret it in the morning... ;)

new thread?

I'd like this too.

[Rudy]

new thread?

I'd like this too.

I'm on it.

[loosefanbelt]

I'm on it.

Thank you Roo!

slumps under table, hands waitress credit card...

[Rudy]

To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Not sure if this is what you wanted... I think it's appropriate to separate fiction from non-fiction favorites, though; I know that I cannot compare the two.

[jikin]

On the first list: 23.

On the banned list: 13.

I thought the couple of cross overs between the two lists were amusing.

It is kind of a weird list... it's missing some that I would expect, and a lot of ones that are on there seem a little random.

Yeah, some of their choices were strange. I mean, I love Hitchhikers Guide- only God knows how many times I've read it- but it doesn't seem like it should be on a list of must read books.

[rara avis]

IMO, Stephen King has good stories, but is not a good writer. I'll stick with the movies for his stuff.

As a hardcore fiction reader, I'll take a Good Storyteller over a Good Writer any day, if you know what I mean. When it comes down to it, I want to read a compelling story, not honed craftmanship.

Of course, in the best of books, it's not an either/or situation.

[darynthe]

Holy guacamole, what happened? Three new threads? Guess mine with the actual compilation will have to wait now. I am confused. I need to study for midterm so I guess I will catch on this Saturday or so.

[Bobert]

Banned books: 5

[ElstonGunn]

I also don't understand the original list, there. Read The Da Vinci Code, but don't worry about Don Quixote? Read everything Shakespeare wrote (and be sure to read Hamlet twice), but give Gogol a complete pass? Read six Dickens but no Robert Louis Stevenson?

This is why you should never trust a group to make an editorial decision.


(I wonder if I'll ever get around to reading Moby-Dick).

I just finally finished that recently, after somewhere around nine months of reading it on-and-off. It's alright for the most part, but the last half-dozen chapters are really good.

[buk]

Sadly I have only read a few during high school classes, and with the exception of Lord of the Flies, I really do not remember any or care to read them at the time. However there are a few I plan to read from the list: Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell,
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy, Animal Farm - George Orwell, Brave New World - Aldous Huxley. I read a lot of books, but generally fiction is not a category I have ever cared about. I am told the books I read are "school books." I have only ever read two fiction books, one was 15 years ago, don't remember the title, but do remember the story. The other fiction book I read recently-Fight Club.

[Rudy]

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Shoot me.


The rest of your choices are excellent.

[buk]

Shoot me.


The rest of your choices are excellent.
No good?

[loosefanbelt]

One thing to consider is that you can really never know where the lists are coming from in that the BBC is a business, and like any other business they may give favoritism in this list over real straight factual reporting from a scholarly source. Links to publishing and the like.

For example, it is well known that our best-seller lists here in the US are largely engineered by the suits who want to make money for their shareholders.

Plus, doesn't everyone love seeing a list like that and enjoy bashing it a little?:wiseguy:

[Rudy]

No good?

Some people may disagree, but it's one of the few books I have been utterly unable to get through.





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For example, it is well known that our best-seller lists here in the US are largely engineered by the suits who want to make money for their shareholders.

I'm pretty sure the bestseller lists are based on which books sell the most copies... is this mistaken?

[loosefanbelt]

I'm pretty sure the bestseller lists are based on which books sell the most copies... is this mistaken?

Well, yes... with smoke and mirrors. Having worked in the book industry I can tell you it is a carefully choreographed dance. What publishers do is take a set number of books that they devote all the advertising monies to, they work with chain booksellers to hype said books. Their selection of books they will push is based on calculated risk for making money. Plus, these figures are estimated with a "trade secret formula". They use selected samples - and we suspect mostly from chain bookstores and supermarkets (whose buying is more driven by publisher hype) sales figures. Not all stores figures are collected.

That is one reason why I am an independent bookstore fanatic. I will go oput of my way to avoid spending my money on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. The intellectual property of our generation has been undermined by this system. Independent stores will carry local authors and the book that makes no money but are new and fresh and... >sorry<...

Off m' soap box now.

[Brittle]

OP: 19 books (I haven't counted the couple I think - but can't remember - I might have read, or those I just couldn't get into and never finished).

8 from the banned book list - and yes, very surprising what was on there! What was wrong with How To Eat Fried Worms?


IMO, Stephen King has good stories, but is not a good writer. I'll stick with the movies for his stuff.

I couldn't disagree more! I find SK's writing style utterly engaging and often struggle to read other authors after reading his books as they seem so dry and bland in comparison. As far as the movies.. most of them have been pretty bad, with perhaps the exception of The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, but even then, so many of the subtleties and subplots have been lost.

Still - each to their own.

[Jonathan Brewer]

I've read twenty of them from the OP list and ten from the "banned" list. I wouldn't read most of them. Jane Austin for instance has a style that just completely turns me off. I never could get through her novels. I am a bit surprised by what isn't on the list but then again it is impossible to be all-inclusive. :)

[INTJoe]

5. All because of school requirements.

I've never been a big reader until about a year ago. Now I enjoy reading non-fiction books. For the most part, reading these fiction books is probably a huge waste of time.

That's just my opinion of course. Nothing wrong with liking fiction and enjoying reading it as a hobby.

[Homini Lupus]

9 (and part of many others). And I'm NOT going to read many more of them. My tastes are completely different from those of the compiler of the list, and some of those I had to read them because of school requirements but I would have gladly thrown them out of the window.

[Gisli]

45. Da Vinci code and NO Umberto Eco? What an outrage.

[Chilifoot]

I count thirteen books I have read. But in my opinion, this selection of 100 books is too much anglo-american dominated anyways.
I am missing the greatest grumbler in the world, Thomas Bernhard from Austria, and would like to see his whole opus on this list. But it's likely no one at the BBC ever read a single book by him :rolleyes:...

[alphawolf]

OP

2
5
8
16
18
25
28
41
52
57
61
70
87


Banned

5
41
57
83
84

When it comes to reading, though, I've always been a huge fan of Poe.

[Tragic Hero]

It's surprising to see that many here have read multiple of the titles in this list because of school. I can only remember reading three books for English in High School, one of which was to 'Kill a Mockingbird'. If I didn't have Nurse Ratched for an English teacher, I probably would have gotten in reading books then instead of when I left high school. The movie is now one of my favourites even though I hated it when she 'taught' it. {We read the book, then watched the movie. I have not since reread the book.}

No Henry James. No-one ever likes Henry James.

[Musahi13]

69.

Why is the DaVinci Code there? that book is the most [expletive][expletive][expletive] piece of [expletive] I have ever heard of. Well, except Twilight.

hating twilight is like hating potato chips

[Prunesquallor]

hating twilight is like hating potato chips

I do hate potato chips, actually. They give me migraines...

[Chronos]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
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 X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
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
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
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 X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 X
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 X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
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 X
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
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro X
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 X
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 X
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 X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

There are way too many classics that I haven't touched at all. Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Austen, Hugo and Steinbeck are all virgin territory for me. Not sure why.

[The Digger]

It is a pretty terrible list, I'm fairly sure it's the one that was voted by the public as their favourite books a few years ago, which explains the plethora of dross and the most-famous-book-from-a-great-author syndrome that seems to be endemic in it.

This seems the general sentiment. I have to agree.

I noticed alot of reiterations as well. 4 Jane Austen books? 6 Charles Dickens books? The Complete Works of Shakespeare and Hamlet? The Hobbit and LoTR (I've never met a person who's read the trilogy but not The Hobbit)? The 2 point Narnia inclusion was listed as well. Pfft.

No Rudyard Kipling, Michael Crichton, Kurt Vonnegut, Ayn Rand, Nietchze, Steven King? And those're just on the shelf.

Sorry, I also enjoy Steven King, Kisai. =p Though the Dark Tower series was a let down.

I've read 32 of the books on that list. Though I've read a fair bit of the Bible and much of Shakespeare (I'm a bigger fan of his comedies though >.>). I really don't like Dickens and Doyle. Doyle has alot of absurd errors in his writing. I doubt I'll ever read any more of them.


According to Prunesquallor (and others apparently), the next book I'm reading is by some guy named Borges. >.>

[Jgib5328]

16

[azelismia]

Of the 100 books list these are the ones I have read. there might be others on that list that I have read but forgotten about. I went thru quite a classic literature kick in my late teens early 20's. I've read thousands of books in my life. I honestly do not remember all of them. I don't read like I used to. it's a bit of an addiction for me. If I let myself get caught up in it I don't tend to do anything else.


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
[haven't read complete works of shakespeare, I've read three or four of htem though)

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

Does making it thru the first chapter almost three or four times before giving up forever count? 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 31 Anna Karenina - 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
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

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 Meany - John Irving
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl





azelismia added to this post, 2 minutes and 9 seconds later...

This seems the general sentiment. I have to agree.

I noticed alot of reiterations as well. 4 Jane Austen books? 6 Charles Dickens books? The Complete Works of Shakespeare and Hamlet? The Hobbit and LoTR (I've never met a person who's read the trilogy but not The Hobbit)? The 2 point Narnia inclusion was listed as well. Pfft.

No Rudyard Kipling, Michael Crichton, Kurt Vonnegut, Ayn Rand, Nietchze, Steven King? And those're just on the shelf.

Sorry, I also enjoy Steven King, Kisai. =p Though the Dark Tower series was a let down.

I've read 32 of the books on that list. Though I've read a fair bit of the Bible and much of Shakespeare (I'm a bigger fan of his comedies though >.>). I really don't like Dickens and Doyle. Doyle has alot of absurd errors in his writing. I doubt I'll ever read any more of them.


According to Prunesquallor (and others apparently), the next book I'm reading is by some guy named Borges. >.>

Steven king is a hack writer. even he admits it. Crichton is no better. Ayn rand was a terrible writer although her message was interesting.


there are some glaring omissions though. I am not sure this list is supposed to be an all time best list, rather than a popular classics list. but where's hemingway, and jules verne? Why are the sherlock holmes books and harry potter books in here if it's a best of list.. That's why I don't think it's supposed to be.

[LaoTzu]

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (fantastic-Ignatious is an INTPj!! :P)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

I may have read more from the list, but I can't honestly recall if I have read some or not, so I did not include them :P
At one time in my life I figured there would be no possible way to read all I wanted to read, so I turned to the 'briefs'. I'm conversant in most books, just not on the minutiae. You gotta cut whatever corners you can :P

[searcher]

36, and would have read more if I could get hold of them :irked:

[ElstonGunn]

Some people may disagree, but it's one of the few books I have been utterly unable to get through.

Did you know that Tolstoy was originally going to call it War, What Is It Good For? It was his mistress who got him to change the title to War and Peace.

[integratedvelocity]

OP: 57 (way too many 20th century works for me, and what about Henry Fielding, Jonathan Swift, and Chaucer? Or Beowulf?)

BB: 26

[Storm]

35

XPride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
XThe Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
X Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
X Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
X To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
x The Bible
X Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
x Complete Works of Shakespeare
X Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
X The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
X Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
X The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
X The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
X Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
X The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
X Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
x Emma - Jane Austen
X The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
X Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
X Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
X Animal Farm - George Orwell
X The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
X Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
X Dune - Frank Herbert
X A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
X Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
X Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
X The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
X A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
X Charlotte’s Web - EB White
X Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
X Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
X The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
x Hamlet - William Shakespeare
X Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl


Ok, what is #42 Da Vinci's Code doing on there? That is not a well written book, nor that original, nor does it have any powerful message. It's a summer read, not anywhere near as good as even Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Winnie the Pooh.

I also take issue with the 5 People You Meet in Heaven, but I haven't read it, so I reserve final judgment.





Storm added to this post, 5 minutes and 1 seconds later...

Oh, and from the banned list: 20 books

[JohnDoe]

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald << AWESOME BOOK
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell << AWESOME BOOK
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley << AWESOME BOOK
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville << Only half way. This book is horrible imo.
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

I can't believe that there is no Faulkner, Scarlet letter, or the Odyssey on here.

[Storm]

I can't believe that there is no Faulkner, Scarlet letter, or the Odyssey on here.

of course not. They had to make room for The Da Vinci Code and 5 People you meet in heaven. Out with the old! In with the new!

[Rudy]

I can't believe that there is no Faulkner, Scarlet letter, or the Odyssey on here.

Well, we've pretty much determined that the list is a popularity contest, not a list of great literature. Even if it wasn't, you'd need something like a list of 1000 books to avoid missing any of the truly great fictional works of English.





RudyHenkel added to this post, 0 minutes and 44 seconds later...

of course not. They had to make room for The Da Vinci Code and 5 People you meet in heaven. Out with the old! In with the new!
Exactly. Harry Potter is the new Odyssey. *sigh*

[JohnDoe]

Well, we've pretty much determined that the list is a popularity contest, not a list of great literature. Even if it wasn't, you'd need something like a list of 1000 books to avoid missing any of the truly great fictional works of English.

I'm just mad that my number is so low :(

[Storm]

I noticed a quite few translated works on the lists. Perhaps we should make a list of only English works? Just to see what it would look like?

[Night Runner]

I've read only 14... Do I get bonus points for having read "Crime and Punishment" and "War and Peace" (which is actually translated as "War and World") in the language they were written in? :p

[The Digger]

Steven king is a hack writer. even he admits it. Crichton is no better. Ayn rand was a terrible writer although her message was interesting.


there are some glaring omissions though. I am not sure this list is supposed to be an all time best list, rather than a popular classics list. but where's hemingway, and jules verne? Why are the sherlock holmes books and harry potter books in here if it's a best of list.. That's why I don't think it's supposed to be.

I agree with you on Ayn Rand. Crichton and King though? What exactly do you mean when you say hack writers? That they write for money? Or are you accusing them of stealing the ideas of other writers?

Harry Potter is the worst hero ever. Have to cross a living chess board? Sacrifice your friends. Have to breathe underwater? Someone just happens to come along and give you the answer. About to be attacked by something horrible? Cower in fear (multiple times) while some magical creature or person saves your dumb hide. Harry Potter is a spineless wimp, and the entire world is his friend so he gets away with it. I have a couple of problems with the series, but Harry himself is the biggest.

The moment Sherlock Holmes deduced the killer had trained the venomous snake using cow's milk was the moment I stopped reading (though there were many small things before that). Ugh.

At loosefanbelt, I posted my top 10 at Henkel's link with descriptions if you care to discuss. Also, Heart of Darkness & Gormenghast have been high on my list of books to read for a while now, if you've read those.

[Megalomania]

I've read a decent amount of literature and most of it isn't on that list. It doesn't even include Paradise Lost. I also wouldn't venture to call Stephen King a hack writer.

[Tenacious B]

The asterisks indicate books that are currently in my to-read queue. I found the original list to be obscure and lacking.


5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible*
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell*
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare* (read quite a bit, but not all)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens *
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky *
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy * (currently reading)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell *
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens*
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens *
76 The Inferno - Dante *
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray *
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas *
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl





Tenacious B added to this post, 5 minutes and 7 seconds later...

War and Peace is one of my favorite books, but I'll be the first to admit it is not the easiest read. The first 150 pages weren't nothing special, and the first 30 or so where miserable. When I started I thought "Crap, 1200 pages of this??", but I'm very glad to have stuck it out.

[Kisai]

I've gotten a copy of Pride and Prejudice this weekend and I'm on chapter 5. It seems pretty interesting so far.

For those reading it:

Michaelmas is September 29, and associated with the autumnal equinox and the shortening of days.

'A chaise and four' is an enclosed carriage, seating three, drawn by four horses.

Hertfordshire is north of greater London, on the eastern part of England.

[Stratego]

I've read a total of 35. My favorites include Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Philip Pullman and Herman Melville.

But a list is a list, of course. Who's to say that this list represents (definitively) Great Literature? I've read some Dragonlance novels that come pretty close, if you ask me. ;)

[ness2361]

I'm late to the party because I'm new to the Forum but I've read 42 + I count 3 that I started but stopped reading because they were so dull to me--Wind in the Willow and Kite Runner are two that come to mind, can't remember the 3rd, and I'm counting the Bible even though I skipped the begats and Numbers and hmm, a few other books but my Mom pushed me to read the entire book and I did OK, and OK, 41 + I'm counting...

The most interesting fact to me, about me, was how many so-called classics I read but not in school (I dropped out of high school, or while I was in high school, and didn't pay much attention for years before that) and therefore not because I had to, but I read them afterward, because I wanted to. So I played catch up, and yes, there are a lot of books and authors missing like Tennessee Williams (6 Ladies Possessed), Faulkner (heck, read his short stories), Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor (my husband recently read Wise Blood and said, I can't believe this wasn't required reading in school and I'm from Tennessee!)... And if they're going to put that Kite Runner (boring ass) writer on the list, why not Alice Hoffman who at least can tell an engaging story, hmm? And what about collections of short stories by any number of great short story writers--Hemingway and Salinger come to mind.

Like many who checked in here, I've got a few on my book shelf that I am planning to read some day: Madame Bovary (I did read Flaubert's Three Tales, or at least one of them called The Simple Heart, and what a joy it was, too), Ulysses, and Henry James' The Golden Bowl. Oh, that last one wasn't on the list, which just goes to show you that some folks felt Remains of the Day deserved mention but Henry James didn't, go figure.

[Librorum]

29, including the Bible, War & Peace, and Anna Karenina (those count extra, don't they?). Some I would never read (Da Vinci, Dark Materials, Harry Potter).

[notoppings]

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The Mothership England's BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits "stack" up?

Instructions:Place an 'x' before those you have read.

BTW, I would have loved to make this a poll, but polls are limited to 20 options, so that would have made this a 4 segment posting. If people thing that is a good idea, comment on the post and I will try it...

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
X2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
X4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
X8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
X10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
X11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
X13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
X16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
X18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
X21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
X22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
X23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
X25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
X28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
X29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
X32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
X36 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
X40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
X41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
X42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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
X49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
X51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
X52 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
X57 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
X61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
X64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
X65 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
X70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
X71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
X72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
X73 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
X81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
X83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
X87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
X88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
XAdventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
X91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
X92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
X94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
X95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
X97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
X99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Looks like I still have 60 to go on this list.

[ness2361]

Notoppings, thanks; you motivated me to do this correctly, with exes; and now the most anal retentive, hmm, I mean, detail-oriented can correct my math because I thought I had 41 (if I took out the Bible because I hadn't read it 'all'. I'll note, also, those that I have in my possession and intend reading, and those that I found to be REALLY BORING (IN for intend and RB for... obviously..., and I put a ? mark for ones I think I read but I'm not positive--I'm not good at retaining titles if the book didn't blow me away, and no mark at all for titles I have never heard of or had no interest in even opening.

X1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
X3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
X4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
X5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
X7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
X8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
X10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
X11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
X13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
X16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
X18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
X20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
RB21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
X22 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
X27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
X28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
X29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
RB30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
RB32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
X33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
X36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
RB37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
X40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
X41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
X43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
RB44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
X48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
X49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
X50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
RB51 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
X57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
RB58 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
X61 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
X66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
IN70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
X71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
X73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
IN75 Ulysses - James Joyce
IN76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
X81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
X83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
IN85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
X87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
X89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
RB91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
X94 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
X98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
X100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Maybe that was only 36 that I have read, plus at least 2 that I may have read but I'm not positive, and I didn't X the ones that I gave up on because they were either really boring or otherwise not worth finishing.

[floramacivor]

I've gotten a copy of Pride and Prejudice this weekend and I'm on chapter 5. It seems pretty interesting so far.

I just finished it - I tried to read it twice before, but never could get very far in it. I loved the movie.

[vervox]

8. Sometimes I wanted to read some of those but just think that I might not be able to finish them.

[boo]

I reckon I've read about 37 of these, thanks to my childhood reading habits - I'd read most of these by about age 14 or 15. My taste veered towards sci-fi and fantasy as an adult.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

[SongofSeptember]

23 and reading 1. Of the 23, 5 are either abridged or translated or both.

x indicates read and completed.
o indicates read and completed an abridged and/or translated and/or abridged and translated version.
- indicates currently reading.

x1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
x3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
x4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
x5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
x7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
o11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
-22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
o24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
x28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
o31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
x33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
x36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
x41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
x42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
o46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
x59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
x61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
o65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
x73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
x74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
x87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
x88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
x89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
o92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Looks like I have stuff to do over the summer.

[Ither]

52. I like Victorian literature.

The DaVinci Code? You've got to be kidding.

[Amphorian]

Only eleven actually. Some others I've seen as movies. However, I'm in the process of reading a few more as well. Also I'm surprised Harry Potter is on the list while ones like Slaughter House Five or War of the Worlds isn't on the list.

But I must say some of the books I have read were a drag like The Great Gatsby. Not to mention so many good books are left off that list like, Robin Hood, Frankenstein, The Stranger, The Wizard of Oz and The Power and The Glory which are excellent reads.

Seriously, does it matter how many of those books I read? Considering I've read probably at least 2000 books in my life time by now. ._. I mean I've even read great (in my opinion) books that most people never even heard of. (Before Adam, Supernaturalist, the rest of the series by Douglas Adams [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy])

Edit: OMG. How could I forget about Mark Twain and E. A. Poe? Or the Greek lits? Good stuff. Good stuff.

[charolastra]

I've read 83 of them and about half of those from before high school and all except for the Confederacy of Dunces and rereadings of the Jane Austen books from before college.


X1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
X2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
X3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
X4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
X5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
X6 The Bible
X7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
X8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
X9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
X10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
X11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
X12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
X13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
X14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
X16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
X18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
X19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
X20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
X21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
X22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
X23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
X24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
X25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
X27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
X28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
X29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
X30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
X31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
X32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
X33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
X34 Emma - Jane Austen
X35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
X36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
X37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
X38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
X39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
X40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
X41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
X42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
X43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
X44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
X46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
X48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
X49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
X50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
X51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
X52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
X54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
X56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
X57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
X58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
X60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
X61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
X62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
X64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
X65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
X66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
X67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
X68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
X69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
X70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
X71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
X72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
X73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
X75 Ulysses - James Joyce
X76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
X78 Germinal - Emile Zola
X79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
X81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
X83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
X85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
X87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
X88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
X89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
X91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
X92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
X94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
X95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
X97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
X98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
X99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
X100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

[Infinite Grey]

I've read 14 of those books and most are on my "to read" list.

[Elfrun]

35, most of them were when I was a kid, I used to eat books.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo[/QUOTE]

[paleoeco]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (excerpts only)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
76 The Inferno - Dante
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

[Dave C C]

The BBC forgot All Creatures Great and Small, I’m shocked.


6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
75 Ulysses - James Joyce

If they had the classics of Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, The Shadow, Doc Savage, The Avengers and Mike Hammer I’d be a reading manic.

[Doppelbock]

17.

[llBradll]

I've read two completely and three partly. I might have read more but fiction really isn't my thing.

[intellael]

I've read twelve. My reading interests were and are for sci-fi/science. The list is lacking. No Rand, Hemingway, Baldwin, etc...

[wittykitty]

Wow, Ive read a lot. Bolded are some of my favorite. Italicized least liked.

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. A lot of Shakespeare
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
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
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - First novel ever read.
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

[fatkattykat]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
76 The Inferno - Dante
80 Possession - AS Byatt
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

24 total...I am 4x more well-read than the average person lmao....but no where near as much as some of you :)

[Xanthippe]

28

I was rather surprised by some of the selections. The Da Vinci Code doesn't really seem to be on the same level as Ulysses or War and Peace. Maybe I'm a snob.

[porousshield]

Jane Eyre, Nineteen Eighty-Four, His Dark Materials, Great Expectations, Catcher in the Rye, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, Count of Monte Cristo, Dracula, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and Watership Down.

13, some books on that list I don't intend to read anytime soon. Ten more of these books I've read the first chapter or two and never picked them up again (ex Dune). My interests are more along the lines of Sci-Fi so that list is very painful for me.

[gedreosan]

I've only read 45 of them, but a lot of those multiple times. It always seemed my lit profs all picked the same books for their classes.

[Synapse]

Thirty of these, but I plan on reading more now that you gave me this list. ;)

And a lot of these seem to be assigned in English classes, as I've noticed, even if most of them weren't required in my classes (yay for reading The Odyssey instead! :rolleyes:).

[errrzarrr]

-LOTR 2 and 3. I own the trilogy here, but only read 2 and 3 because I saw 1st movie before
reading the book and didnt had any motivation to read it after watching it.

-Bible. Parts of it, of course.

-1984. Saw the movie and watched Animal Farm. Orwell rocks.

-Da vinci Code

-Sherlock Holmes

-Les Miserables. Couldn't read it completely because it is a very big book and they are 2 tomes.

So, that makes 7 books of THAT list. Of course, I have read more than that.





errrzarrr added to this post, 1 minutes and 33 seconds later...

28

I was rather surprised by some of the selections. The Da Vinci Code doesn't really seem to be on the same level as Ulysses or War and Peace. Maybe I'm a snob.

There's no doubt that The Da Vinci Code does not belong to that list, as a few others too.

[coffeeholic]

i ve read 27 of them.....Brave New World is my favorite book!

[Cincinnatus]

I've read seventeen of the books listed. As I run through the list there only appears to be about ten others I would mark as "to read". What can I say? People have different tastes in literature.

[tarheel2011]

i've read about 20 of those books. although several novels i have read multiple times (Pride and Prejudice, well actually all of Jane Austen, 1984).however i would agree with many of you-there are some seriously good reads that are missing from this list. but i am glad to see this list because it has reminded me of some of the books that i have always wanted to read!

[HackerX]

This is going to make me look bad:

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Technicals:
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare *About half of them.
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck * The first 3 pages or so :P
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov * It's sitting on a table at home waiting to be read


Todo List:
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell


I do remember having to do The Catcher In The Rye for highschool. Sitting in class with everyone (and I do mean everyone) around me saying this is crap and me being all quiet thinking "I really like this". (Other highschool books included Lord Of The Flies, Brave New World, Les Miserables & Hamlet)

And poor wittykitty having watership down as your first novel and not liking it. I loved that book, but that's a harsh book to have as your first!

[mippus]

23, and I guess that is okay for a Belgian ;)

[Ogdred Weary]

34 for certain, and another 7-8 which may have been read to me in elementary school or which I've likely read and forgotten. Pretty poor for an English major I guess. I somehow feel "cleaner" for having read Doris Depressing's The Diaries of Jane Somers as opposed to Bridget Jones's Diary, though.

Can I substitute Made in America for Notes from a Small Island? The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Les Miserables? The Red Pony for another Steinbeck? I also want to do a complete swap of Wilkie Collins for every Dickens novel mentioned. (I really, really hate Dickens.)

[Okrojsha]

Wow, Ive read a lot. Bolded are some of my favorite. Italicized least liked.

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. A lot of Shakespeare
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
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
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - First novel ever read.
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

I'm a guy and I loved Wuthering Heights. I was in my early teens, when I read it, though. Suppose it's "to each his/her own" after all, right? I can see why you did not like "Catch-22" as Heller admitted himself he was an awful writer. Still, I love this book for whatever it might be: wit, humor, craziness, originality of it all. Certainly a new approach to the war-themed material.

Personally, I've only read 17 titles from the list, but the list itself is a bad joke. F-in' "Da Vinci Code" and no Homer's Iliad, Goethe's Faust, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dante's Divine Comedy, Boccacio's Decameron, Erasmus' The Praise of Folly, any works by Graham Greene, E. A. Poe, Umberto Ecco, Ivo Andric, R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe, Paolo Coelho, H.P. Lovecraft, Norman Mailer, Henryk Sienkewicz, just to name the few. "Absolutely ridiculous choices among several classics" should be name of this list.

[skycloud86]

23/100, although it's missing a lot of classics and some of the 100 I've never heard of.

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
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
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

[deicruxified]

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
6 The Bible
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov cringed to the marrow while reading... it's a miracle that i was able to finish the whole book. i dare not read it again
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

[DanteFalling]

In full? At LEAST 39 of them.

I've at least partially read (not including those I've just watched a movie version for) ate least 67 I believe.

[nettneu]

X The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
X The Bible (But not all of it!)
X Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
X The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
X The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
X Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
X David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
X Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
X The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
X Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
X Animal Farm - George Orwell
X The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
X Lord of the Flies - William Golding
X Dune - Frank Herbert
X Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
X Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
X The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
X Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
X A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
X Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
X Watership Down - Richard Adams
X The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
X Hamlet - William Shakespeare

[Blse]

Way behind you guys... only 22! :(
I blame it on text books and non-fiction which I read a lot.

Oh well, I'll pick some of these up in the summer!

haha, you think that's bad: 12 here. Why? Same reason as you. I read A LOT. On economics, political science, pyschology, sociology, etc... Put together a list of 100 noteworthy social science books and I'll be in the 90+ range :).

[Towiel]

I have actually read 17 of the books.

I have seen movies on many others, but I do not feel these could be counted (not just because this thread asks what you have read) but also because of the ones I have read, the movie versions did not match well.

[tinapay]

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

this.

The selection leans more on the Anglo side which I find unfair. Not too many African, Asian and Latin American (except for Garcia Marquez), eh?

[Hecate]

Favorites are bolded

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
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

[DewFuel]

32 of them in full. i've partially read parts of 70-80 of those books, but probably not more than 50 pages.

i used to be really into the old classics, but my interest in them has slowly withered away.

x = read in full
z = read in partial (< half of book)



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
x The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
x Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (had to read this in about 3 days after i got back from a vacation and my class was well ahead of me. didn't really enjoy it. i tried re-reading it but it was too painful)
z Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
x To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
x The Bible
z Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
x Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
z Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
z Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
z Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
x The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
x Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
x Middlemarch - George Eliot (i love george eliot, read all her works)
z Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
x The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
x Bleak House - Charles Dickens (one of the passages in my english AP test, years ago, was from this)
z War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
z The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
x Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
x Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (favorite book)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
x Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (loved it, read it to impress some girls in high school, but ended up being a favorite)
z David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
x Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
x The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (isn't this the same as chronicles)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
z Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
z Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
x Animal Farm - George Orwell (meh)
z The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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
x Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
z Life of Pi - Yann Martel
x 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
x A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (one of my favorites)
x Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
z The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
z Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
x Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
z Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
z The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
z Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
z Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
z Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
z Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
x Dracula - Bram Stoker
x The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
z Ulysses - James Joyce
x The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
x A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
x The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
z Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
x Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
z Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
z Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
x The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
z The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
z A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
z The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (awful book)
x Hamlet - William Shakespeare
x Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (Matilda was better)
x Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (masterpiece, also hunchback of notre dame is another amazing piece)



This list is kinda... meh.

[Sawa Hinuyo]

So:
1, 22, 24, 27, parts of 31, 42, parts of 54, 58, 65, 85, 92, 97 & 98.

Planning to read:
2, 7, 61, 62 & 100.

[starlight87]

Read 18 of these, most of them in middle/high school. As I am currently going through all the classics, I expect to check off alot more from this list. I am currently reading Great Expectations & Crime and Punishment. Don't agree with many of the titles on this list, alot are undeserving of this merit, while many great novels have been omitted.

[AtheneNoctua]

I've read 37, but since I have a long summer ahead of me with nothing much to do, I hope to get that up to about fifty...

[MortalWombat]

39.

[gabbya]

By my count, that's 41. What with that institution called "school", I don't understand how the BBC claims most people have only read 6...

Oh, and wishes to add "Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card" to the list ;)


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 <-- eww, yuck, yuck, yuck. I don't get how anyone could like this *makes face*
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - well, a good deal of them.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger- part, and then I got bored.
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - I want to...
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

[rbc]

38, largely in junior high and high school literature classes.

[MetricalNoir]

I have read 35 from the BBC’s 100 book list, and 16 from the banned books list. I do have quite a few of these listed novels waiting on my shelf for me to read, though. If only I had the time!

[lioness]

Umm... dare I say 9?

I have never been a reader. I'm impatient, and books can't tickle you, hand you something to drink, or turn on music when you're terribly bored.

By the time I get up to do these things I've forgotten where I put the book. Five minutes later I will have forgotten it existed.

[Leg]

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien gift
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown gift
The Inferno - Dante Dante is studied at school
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I just love it
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott when I was a child

Of course I've read many other books, written by Italian writers..... Manzoni, Pascoli, Pirandello, Foscolo, Calvino, Levi, Boccaccio, Leopardi ecc ecc.....

I've studied some English licterature at school... I like Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, Elliot.

[Imperator]

I can't remember if I read some of these or not....

17 (25+ including the unsure ones).

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare


If this is a list of least read books, I guess it's kinda interesting.

If this list is supposed to be serious, I think it's quite poor. The pattern seems strict and skeletal. No Vonnegut? Seriously? They put Joyce's Ulysses, but not Homer's Odyssey? In fact, they have no Greek or Roman works at all up there. And yet the canon is entirely Western.

I like this list better (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.). No list will be perfect, but I think that one's a little more.....eclectic, shall we say?

This one's just confusing...

[LordCorbin]

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
76 The Inferno - Dante
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

A whopping 14. Maybe when I finish all the books on my shelf I can tackle some of these.

[katrin]

I've only read 52, and I'm a librarian who was an English major. *cries in a corner*

[Ilara]

35

I feel pretty good about that number, actually, since I'm only 19. Plenty of time to read some more. ^>^

I'm just taking it as a list of books that somebody likes, rather than as some sort of literary cannon, 'cause it's unbalanced. Oh well.

List:

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
10 Complete Works of Shakespeare
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
20Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
30The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

[Grasshopper]

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

So 11. That's not that many, but I'm fairly young still. I really need to get back into reading.

[Epictetus]

I've read around thirty, there are a few books on that list that I just couldn't get through such as The Bible and Ulysses.

[Distance]

57/100. Some of that list are series of books or works.

[akela]

36/100. Where is Hemingway on the list? Faulkner? Kipling? Mann? Hamsun?

[Bluesea]

46 but then again I studied English lit for a while, lots of good books on that list though, some of which I wish I had read but have yet to, I say we work our way through until we have done all 100 ... we've got a whole lifetime to live after all... some of it we'll be old and crusty and be good for nothing else but reading after all! :)

[HereticForLife]

Oh dear, only 11. Makes sense though, I don´t read that much victorian, classic, or romantic literature, and this list seems pretty heavy with those. I saw several in there that I´m planning on reading in the future, however.

[Mahgol]

12, Now I feel like an idiot.

[Elwood92]

14, but they left out a lot of good books and I don't read that much fiction...

[Axel]

* = Won't read because I know the plot. (I don't like reading things when I've already seen the movie, it disturbs my imagination, I usually don't watch movies when I've read the book either though so it goes booth ways.)
X = Have read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X
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 X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
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
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
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 X
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
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 X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 X
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 X
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 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 *
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 X
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 *

[HAL 9000]

15, I am more of a non-fiction sort of person anyhow.

[operatorfivetwo]

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Bible
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Inferno - Dante
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

[GouldFan]

32... didn't count all the ones that I picked up and forgot to finish. :blank:

[Samoan Corleone]

12, Now I feel like an idiot.

12? You managed that many? 9 for me.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

I may be biased, but how is Mario Puzo's The Godfather not on there? It's not the most well-written book in the world, but Don Corleone is just awesome! Also, the Bible contains sixty-six books in itself! This isn't a very well-organised list.

[Jobo]

I already read this three:
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Currently reading:
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-i read that this book/series and author is good. so far it is.-

i already watched the movie version of some of the titles in the list.
thanks for sharing the list. heck i only read 3 from the list. i hope i can find time to read most of them in my lifetime.

[Skele Drew]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [Got bored on the first couple pages; maybe I'll try again]
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
[I] 6 The Bible [Currently in Deuteronomy, and on a pause]
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 Faulk
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
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
[I] 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 [Was a literature book]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
[I] 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [see #1]
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 [see #1]
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 [see #30]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [see #30]
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
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 [see #41]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I'll probably try getting my hands on most of these when I can.

[Paul Siraisi]

29, not counting Shakespear's complete works (I've probably read 10).

[tzeqin]

Urgh, Niffenegger's work made it to top 100? Chick lit? [But I'm guilty - I bawled and died a little at the end of the story.] Count's at 57. [Read: I'm old, must catch up with the rest of the list.] And 8 more I enjoyed as audiobooks - I get to multitask this way.

[Just fyi for those wanting to get up to date with the list via audiobooks: Be sure to listen to alternate audiobooks of the same title, if you do get the option (esp classics). Some times, you may just prefer one narrator over the other so much more.]

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I like this list better (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

Me too. Great list - will keep it as reference, thanks.

[Danisty]

Most of this list does not appeal to me. I've only read a handful of them and there is no chance I will pick up 90% of this list...ever. Some of them (like anything by Charles Dickens) I absolutely hated. The only books on this list I actually read and liked are The Count of Monte Cristo and Sherlock Holmes.

[protocol]

i've read only about a fifth of the books on the list, and most of them were english assignments. perhaps i'll try to pick up a few more because i feel that should have read at least half of the books on there.

[Onigumo13]

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - for fun of it :)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - School assignment !
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - recommended by a friend :)
76 The Inferno - Dante - School assignment !
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The adventures of the young Sherlock Holmes :)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - School assignment !
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - School assignment !

[celtica]

34, which I'm surprised at, because I'm a huge reader, I'll read anything that's written down :) , so I assumed I'd have read more of them. Although, I doubt many have read the Bible from cover to cover as it's not really that sort of book. Also all of Shakespeare's works were listed as one, where I've read a lot of them, but not all, by any means.

[Neemo]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 X The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 X Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 X 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 X Little Women - Louisa M Alcott- I've regretted it ever since its a terrible book
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 X The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 X 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 X The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 X The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 X Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 X 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 X The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 X Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 X Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 X The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 X Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 X 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 X 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 X 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 X 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 Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 X 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 X Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 X 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 X Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 X Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


Looks like 24

I don't think that some of those deserve to be on there.

[InfiniteLoop]

23. Also, A Confederacy Of Dunces is one of my all-time favorite books. :D

Most of those books I read and liked. Some I didn't; To Kill A Mockingbird bored me to tears until I got to the second half, and I wasn't particularly fond of either of the two Steinbeck works on this list (his writing style's TOO realist for my taste).

I mean to read Dracula sometime soon, as I love Gothic horror. Some of those books I've heard of and am familiar with but have never read in my life. I'm surprised some of my favorite classics aren't on there, too.

Also, why are "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" listed *separately* when the first one encompasses the latter already?

[dichotomy14138]

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 *currently reading
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 *one of the books I dreadfully hated
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 *Had to read that for school... it was so boring
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
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
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy *Really want to read that book but I can't find it :(
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 *I find this and 36 the same. I'll explain later.
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 *Kind of, explain later.
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 Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery *One of those books I despise.
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 *Want to read it and I can't find it.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett *I hate classic books.
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
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 *Hate that book.
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 *Going to have to read it for high school.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

For 33 and 36 I had the entire series crammed into one giant book that I got at Barnes and Noble.

For 39 I read halfway then I didn't get interested in it. Geisha life was interesting and all but I'm just not big on memoirs/diary kind of books. In my opinion, the standpoint is just dragging.

[BuShinJu]

18

What about Robert E Howard and H P Lovecraft? eh? That's all I read when I was a kid and I turned out fine, back in my day you didn't need romance and intrigue, all you needed was a gibbering beast and a barbarian to kill it or a university student to go mad looking at it, humph............

[Minerva]

In bold are the ones that I have read. Italics means started but to date unfinished.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Loved this book
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte One of my 10 favs.
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 Faulk
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
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 This was not a true representation of the life of a Geisha although most people believe so I have decided not to read it.
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 Meany - 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 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
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 Why is this and Complete Works of Shakespeare here?
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

[papkan]

28

[Veracity]

I thought I was doing ok at 22, but geez...

[maddhatter]

Ha, I only get 9 from this list ^^;;
(I have read more that is not in the list =P)
--------------------
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling >> Love it!
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker >> Good
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle >> My fav~!

[Just So]

19 but I don't think much of the list.

[Desmond Linus]

I've read 9 of them. In some cases, I've seen the stories in other mediums. For instance, I saw A Tale of Two Cities as a play. I'm seen a few as movie adaptations. Out of the 9, I read 6 of them in literature classes in school. I'm unhappy that Slaughterhouse Five isn't on the list. The list says Harry Potter series, assuming that it's impossible to just read 1 or 2 of the books.

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Of the ones I've read, The Great Gatsby is probably my favorite.

[Antares]

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling*
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee*
6 The Bible*
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell*
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger*
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy*
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck*
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne*
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell*
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown*
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving*
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck*
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas*
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas*
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo*

17. I'm 17 years old. Plenty of time guys. I have not finished every book, but there are some books that were just so boring in my opinion that I couldn't finish them. There should be no penalty in finding books boring.

[Blue Moon]

40.5

(I want credit for having read most of Shakespeare's plays, especially since I found some of them especially painful.)

I hope the BBC comes up with a better list someday, though.

[Logan Five]

11.

I am not really into fiction which is what this list mostly is.

[Vivek]

19.

[CaesAug]

I have most of these books, but I haven't got around to reading them yet.


4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

[mozartus]

I've read 35 on the list. Some of those books... I wonder why they think they should be read?

[Anhedonic Lake]

About thirty five. I don't know will Bridget Jones last the test of time.

[nhillson]

The ones remaining I have read.

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
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (most of it)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
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
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
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
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
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
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (I read it in French)
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

46 Total.

[Anima Mundi]

55, though some are more or less duplicates (e.g. Shakespeare and Narnia.)

[Maybe]

27 for me!

[Mirian]

52 so far

[nhillson]

55, though some are more or less duplicates (e.g. Shakespeare and Narnia.)

You mean the bible and Narnia?

[psykhe]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
76 The Inferno - Dante
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Just 35 for me..

[Artio]

+ 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 - partially, I have difficulties with certain pages of OT
+ 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 - partially
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
+ 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
+ 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
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 Meany - 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 - partially, I keep to doze off...
+ 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
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

65 + 3 partially

[MrFreakaficial]

6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (probably)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I blame video games.

[Norya]

30 + 2 or 3 I think I've read but can't quite remember for sure.

I question the source of the list. Lists very like this pop up fairly often attributed to all kinds of highbrow-sounding sources and usually they don't turn out to be from where they're said to be from. I don't think a proper list would have the overlaps this one does.

X 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
X 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
X 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
X 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
X 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
X 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
X 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
X 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
X 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
X 34 Emma - Jane Austen
X 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
X 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
X 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
X 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
X 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
X 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
X 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
X 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
X 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
X 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
X 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
X 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
X 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
X 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
X 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

[katrin]

x1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
x2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
x3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
x4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
x5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
x6 The Bible
x7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
x8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
x9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
x10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
x11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
x12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
x14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
x15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
x16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
x18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
x21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
x22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
x25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
x27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
x29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
x30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
x31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
x33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
x34 Emma - Jane Austen
x35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
x36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
x37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
x39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
x40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
x41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
x42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
x46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
x48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
x49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
x54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
x57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
x59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
x61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
x62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
x64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
x65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
x68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
x72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
x73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
x76 The Inferno - Dante
x81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
x83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
x87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
x89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
x91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
x92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
x97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
x98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
x99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

[Latro]

12, counting 2 partials as 1. That's kinda disappointing.

LOTR
Jane Eyre (partial)
Harry Potter
His Dark Materials (partial)
The Hobbit
The Great Gatsby
Chronicles of Narnia
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Animal Farm
The Da Vinci Code
The Count of Monte Cristo
Charlotte's Web
To Kill a Mockingbird

At least 4.5 of those were only for school, too, though I liked most of them well enough anyway. (What I didn't like was analyzing them to death so as to write about them. Why can't stories just be stories?)

[freeeekyyy]

I've read 14 of those books.


2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

[Muumeh]

16.

It's a bit silly list as it lists series as one book, aka Narnia, hitchiker's, Harry Potter, Dune. And I haven't read all Potters, only most of them. Does that count or not? :P
I'm highly disappointed that William Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't on the list...

[Dung]

I've read only 12 - more so if you consider collections (like Dumas and Doyle).
It's not much but I recall everyone of them. Except from Dan Brown's - it slipped through my mind and melted away quickly I guess.

[Vogue]

I think I counted 16 as read, and there are three books on that list I have plans on reading in the immediate future. There are others on that list, that have no interest for me at all.


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
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - Partial, didn't like it.
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Partial
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

Plan to read:
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

[AsukaTerra]

I've only read 7, though a number of these are on my to-read list. I don't have a lot of focus these days so reading is mildly challenging at times.