I discovered this list on Library Thing the other day. It’s 100 books everyone should read, and supposedly the BBC says most people have read only six. I find that hard to believe. I squeezed four years of high school into five, and I’ve read forty-four on the list. But then, on the other hand, I was an English major, too. So how about you? If you care to comment, please copy and paste in your comment, bold the books you've read, italicize books not completed, and then sum up with a head count, so to speak.
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 (read the first two)
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 (have read the sonnets and more than half the plays)
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
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 Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna 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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt.
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
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
Not a bad list. Though I think tomorrow, I'll post a list of 100 Books Every Christian Should Read. Touche.
Completed:
ReplyDelete22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (So I didn't really finish this book, because I didn't like at all. But I browsed through it enough to get the just of the storyline :/
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
= 7
Not Completed:
6 The Bible
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
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I read a lot more books than this, these just aren't (mostly) my style of books. Yes, please post a 100 list for Christians. ^-^ I need some more books on my list of to read.
For some reason, I cannot bold and italics to work. :(
ReplyDeleteCompleted books are in normal typeface. Those not completed have an asterisk.
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 (Complete series. I liked the first one best.)
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
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare** (All the Histories and most of the Tragedies and only a few of the comedies. Have read the sonnets as well.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
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
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
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
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
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
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
51 Life of Pi**(Currently reading)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
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
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding..NO.. but I did read Tom Jones and Shamela by HENRY Fielding. :)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
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
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
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
68 read and completed and soon to have Life of Pi completed. I read a considerable number of these books while in high school (I'm 64 years old). I gather that the high school curriculum has changed dramatically!
Old Gray Haired Lady
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
ReplyDeleteHarry Potter series
Gone With The Wind
Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Da Vinci Code
Love In The Time Of Cholera
Lolita
Hamlet
Not finished: Madame Bovary and Bible
Nice initiative. I'm from an Eastern European country and I haven't heard about some books in this list....so thank you:)
I am on a mission to read every single one!
ReplyDelete2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
ReplyDelete3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (not finished)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (not finished)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
That makes 21 read completely. Not bad for a seventeen-year-old.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
ReplyDelete4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (read the first two)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
20 for me, I'm also a 17 year old.