100 Books

I saw this on a friend's blog and thought it was neat, and then it started going around Facebook a bit too. I like the way it is here because there were more options. I changed the way it was done a bit because the original had an underline option. Blogger doesn't seem to have that in their tool bar, and I am too lazy to add the html LOL, so here is my version! Some of these I am not familiar with. If I didn't italicize it, and it is a book you love, let me know!

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Put 3 stars next to the ones you love***


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 – lots but can’t claim all
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte***
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman********* OK, a few more than 3 stars haha
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 Works of Shakespeare – well, most of them…
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien***
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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 – I even own a first edition!
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald – not sure how I missed this one in school!
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
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*** – one of the greatest books ever written imho
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - love his stuff but haven't got to this one yet
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 - loved the movie so really want to read it!
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 – just one of those books I never wanted to read – I know I should one day!
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 - parts... I just can't deal with Joyce LOL
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker*** - one of my all time favorites, along with everything she writes!
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 ***– think I have read all his books!
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo