In 2007, 2,000 people who took part in the poll online at worldbookday.com nominated their top 10 titles that they could not live without. The result is a compilation of the top 100 books. Agree or Disagree, Which books have you read or plan to read?
I'm surprised at how many I have read.
1. Put an (x) after those you have read.
2. Put (#) those you plan on reading.
3. Put (~) next to those you didn't finish reading for whatever reason.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [~]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x ]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [x]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x]
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [x]
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier []
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [~]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [x ]
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 [x]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [x]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ]
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens []
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [ ]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [~]
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 Bernieres [ ]
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [x]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x]
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 [x]
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [x]
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [x]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [x]
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 [x]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley []
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [x]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x]
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [ ]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [ ]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [ ]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [ ]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [ ]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [~]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens []
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [x]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [ ]
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
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 [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [x]
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 [x]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x]
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x]
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 [x]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [ ]
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [ ]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [ ]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [ ]
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