Via J. C. Martin @ Fighter Writer
Apparently (I can't find an original source for this!), the majority of people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here...
Instructions:
• Copy this list.
• Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
• Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
I have read:
- 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
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
- His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Rebecca – Daphe Du Maurier
- The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
- Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
- The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
- Emma -Jane Austen
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
- Winne the Pooh - A. A. Milne
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi – Yann Martel
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- On The Road – Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- The Inferno – Dante
- Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
- Germinal – Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession – AS Byatt
- Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- Watership Down – Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
- ??? (For you observant types, yes the list does appear to be missing book no. 100)
I have read 18! How many have you read?
12 comments:
This is great list, thank you. I'm in the process of stealing...ahem...passing it on right now. I've finished 24. Didn't realize how many books over the years I've started but never finished. Need to rectify that in the near future.
I've read twenty eight, but some of the books are kind of listed twice. Hamlet is also part of the Complete works of Shakespeare, isn't it? Ditto The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Chronicles of Narnia. Maybe someone should write a new and improved list.
Still, twenty eight isn't nearly enough. There are a lot of good reads I should get to :)
I think 29, I might have read more and JE Fritz is right some of the books are listed twice , maybe we should make 20,000 leagues under the sea as #100
57 But I am hellishly old! Agree with the previous comment that some are listed twice eg Chronicles of Narnia etc. It's fun to see those one stutters over (A Tale of Two Cities, bad school memories) then those that I can read again and again, ie Cold Comfort Farm, Tolkien.
The Steig Larsson trilogy is bound to make a list like this at some point, I think.
At least 25 but not nearly enough!!
hahaha Cracks me up that Mitch Albom is on that list.
That's so spooky, I have just posted a blog on the exact same thing after seeing the list on facebook!
http://myimpossibledreams.blogspot.com/2010/11/ive-read-22-of-top-100-books.html
I've read 18 of them, possibly 19, but I can't remember about Les Miserables. I know I saw the production, but I can't remember if I read it. Great list!
♥ Mary Mary
I'm posting my list in a couple of hours - 35 (woot!). Was amazed it was that many ;)
Rach
I've read 42 + the partials, but I have an age advantage, plus, about 8 years ago, I found a list something like this and made an intentional point of reading some 8-10 BECAUSE of their presense on a similar list (I think it was a librarian's top 100 or something). That said, a few of my ALL TIME favorite books are on this list: War & Peace, Les Miserables, Lolita, David Copperfield... There is a definite reason those are classics. Then again, there are books on here I didn't like--Atonement, Life of Pi, and I LIKED the Gabriel Garcia Marquez ones, but the two feel EXACTLY the same, no reason to read both.
I've read a measly 11 of them. But I'm just glad it's more than the average! Some great books on this list -- looks like I have a lot of catching up to do!
I've read 23, but agree with some of the commenters above saying a few books are doubled. It is a great list though - some of these are on my current TBR pile.
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