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I've read 72 of them but most of those were in my youth when I would loose days in the middle of the paddock just reading on a blanket. I want to go back and read them again, heck I want to buy a lot of them again as I don't have my book collection any more :(
My new year resolution was to delete my facebook account, so can the list be published here? I'd love to join in and read along with the rest of you.
Please realise the list is american - hence their version of the Harry Potter :)
The List
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Various
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
1984 - George Orwell
Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles ****ens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Rebecca - Daphne 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 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 Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles ****ens
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
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
Winnie the Pooh - AA 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 ****ens
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 **** - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles ****ens
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 Ransom
Germinal - Emile Zol
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackera
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles ****ens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB 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
Bleak House - Charles ****ens
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
I've read 34. There's a lot on there that I've always wanted to read, so count me in.
I think the list came from a survey by the BBC asking people their favourite books. Although, I did a quick google and there do seem to be some variations that have crept in.:
Thanks Sopdet.
I have read 38 and attempted to read quite a few more off the list but never managed to really get into them like Catch 22 & The Lord of the Rings. I have to say that I think Austen is over represented in the list - anyone else agree with Adrian Mole that she should be put in the Romance section at the library??
Anyone started anything yet? I am 1/4 of the way through the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and just got a message that The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is waiting for me to collect.
Didn't see this thread, but I did see the list on FB. I got The Kite Runner to read (amongst others...) while I was on holidays and thanks to the non-Sunshine Coast have finished it. Loved it. I might get a couple on this list too. Life of Pi I don't think I've read.
I've read 44 if I'm remembering correctly. I might find I've read a few more, but haven't included them because I can't remember the story lines from the title. I don't have the best memory for titles. It probably should be more considering I studied literature, but some of those newer ones I have no interest in at all. And I think there are a few significant Australian authors who are not represented on this list. :p
I am getting new glasses next week. So will be back into reading then. Still have 2 chapters of Sherlock Holmes to get through.
Finally finished off Sherlock Holmes, so when the glasses arrive next week I will move onto The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
So up to 15 read now, from my measley 11 that I started with LOL.
Jen, I have Life Of Pi - I can bring it Friday if you like? No rush for it back.... I hated it :rofl:
Was the only person in my book group that didn't love it, lol.
I'm just finishing off a book I'd already started (Lucky Man, Michael J Fox) and I'm going to pick one from the list :)
The List
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Various
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
1984 - George Orwell
Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles ****ens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Rebecca - Daphne 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 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 Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles ****ens
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
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
Winnie the Pooh - AA 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 ****ens
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 **** - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles ****ens
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 Ransom
Germinal - Emile Zol
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackera
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles ****ens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB 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
Bleak House - Charles ****ens
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The ones in bold I have here if anyone wants to borrow them :)
PM me.
Thanks hun!:
I'll remember to bring you the one I keep meaning too. It's not on the list, but that's because it's Australian. :p to the BBC.
I have gone with the wind, but it is a bit big to post, I will be in melbourne in about a month if anyone wants to borrow it
I finished the Adventures of Tom Sawyer today. Was okay once I got into it, was hard to get into it though. So I think next on my list will be a couple I have as e books sitting on my computer.
Off to the library tomorrow to drop Tom and Sherlock back. Still waiting on Anna whatever her name is to come in via the library. I was #3 in line last time I looked, and just checked... still am. Plenty to keep me going in the mean time.
16/100 read.
I finished Anna Karenia or whatever her name is last night. I am glad to have it behind me. 820 pages later. Some chapters were okay, others dull and boring. All the chapters were in Roman Numerals, so my 2 oldest learnt Roman Numerals during the month I took to read it :)
Now back to David Copperfield that I was reading, when I got the call from the library to pick up Anna.
17/100
can i be added to the list as i am going to particpate in this so far i have done 12 but might even re-do them its been a number of years since i read most of them
have added you on ~*MrsS*~