Book List

I got this list from Maren's Blog, and since I love a good read about more than anything, I
thought I'd give it a shot.
The BBC reports most people will have only read six of the 100 books on this list.

So, these were the instructions:

1) Look at the list and put an x after those you have read.
2) Add a + to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x + (I'll read this yearly till the day I die)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x +
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 (long ago, so *)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell*
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x+
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x +
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x+
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (love what I've read, maybe I should aspire to a complete read, but like the Bible, hmmm)
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 x +
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x+
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens * (have been meaning to since seeing the FABULOUS BBC adaptation last year)
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 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 x
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens *
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
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x
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 Meaney - John Irving x +
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins x
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x+
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x ++
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan x +
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel x +
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons *
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x+
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x (two thumbs down)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
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 x +
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (I have no desire to read this after Reading Lolita in Tehran. Molesters aren't my top characters).
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold x
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas * (I am reading it next month for book club)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy*
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding x+++
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie *
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville X (no thanks)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens *
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker *
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x
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 x
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x
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 x +
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x
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 x
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x (in french no less)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams x
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole *
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute x +
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas *
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x +
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl x+
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo * (I tried the unabridged once...)

Take that BBC booklist!