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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?


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 [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [~]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [#]
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 [#]
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 [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [x]

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams []
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 [x]

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x]
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 [#]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving []
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins []
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy []
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] I did not enjoy this book.
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [x]

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [#]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert []
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons []
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen[]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [x]
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 - Mark Haddon [#]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [~#]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
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 []
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal - Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt []

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 []
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 []
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x]

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 [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [~]
Wow. Looks like I have a lot more reading to do! I downloaded quite a few of the classics recently and decided to work my way through them.


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 [#]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [#]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [#]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [#]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x]

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
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [~]
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 [#]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
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
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
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
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - 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
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [~]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] I'm currently reading this one.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
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
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
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [#]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x]

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 [~]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Hey, this will be like a shopping list...and also something that shows me how little I've read... had to Google half the list...

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 []
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte []
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee []
6 The Bible [~]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte []
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [#]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [#]
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 Complete Works of Shakespeare [~] Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, MacBeth, and I forget which others...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier []
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk []
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger []
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger []
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot []

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell []
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [#]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [#]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [#]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [#]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck []
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 []
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 [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown []
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []
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 []
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan []

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel []
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [#]
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 [~]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley []
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [#]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck []
62 - Vladimir Nabokov []
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [~x] Apparently the one I read was abridged... woops.
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 [#]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett []
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [#]
76 The Inferno – Dante [#]
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 [#]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell []
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] Grade 5 setwork... eh
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom []
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [~] Reading it when I'm in the mood
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 [#]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare []
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo []
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 [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 [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 [ ]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [x] Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [#]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ]

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [ ]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [x]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [x]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [ ]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x]

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
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 [ ]
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [ ]
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [ ]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [#]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [ ]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [ ]
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
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 [ ]
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]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [ ]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [#]
62 - 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 [ ]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [~]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [ ]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
76 The Inferno – Dante [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x]

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 [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 [#]
Thinking about it, I'm rather taken aback that there is only one Roald Dahl book on that list, and it wasn't even his best.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen []
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien []
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[]
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 Expectations - Charles Dickens []

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy []
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller []
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [x] Complete no, but lots, yes.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier []
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk []
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger []
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot []

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell []
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy []
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams []
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 [x]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis []
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 [x]
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 []
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins []
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy []
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood []
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan []

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel []
52 Dune - Frank Herbert []
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 []
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley []
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
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 [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett []
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
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 []
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 []
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 []
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 [x]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl []
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo []
iszofia]In 2007, 2,000 people who took part in the poll online at worldbookday.com nominated their [url=]top 10 titles[/url] 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?


All right I didn't really follow the guidelines you laid out, but tried to, and added some of my own opinions. Ahem, sorry.


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 sort of an X, I've read some of them.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible sort of, have read parts of it.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ? never heard of it.
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens X times 15 or more!

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 - not a chance! some of them, yes.
Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth X X
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien NEVER
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ?
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ?
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot sigh = waste of time - X

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 - parts of it, finishing it is unlikely.
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X times many times, and more to come!
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - X, more than once.
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - X times many times, didn't this already get asked above?
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma - Jane Austen X!!! X!!! X!!! exponential, brilliant, is Emma!
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - XXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!! More brilliant than Emma!
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - No.
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres X times four at least
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden No.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne XXXXXX!!!!!!

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown NO! Never!
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X times four.
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving No, won't.
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins X times many times, more to come.
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X! X! X! X! Love Anne of Green Gables!
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan No, won't likely read it.

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel No, won't.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons X! Loved it! Brilliant book!
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X!
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth No, won't likely.
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon Dont' know it.
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X times how many times, how many more times? Many, I suspect.
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon ?
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X times six or more.

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X
62 - Vladimir Nabokov X
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold No, unlikely to read it.
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X! Loved it!
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac X
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie X
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [~]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X times how many?
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ?
75 Ulysses - James Joyce Hmmm, half an X? Could not finish it.
76 The Inferno – Dante X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome X
78 Germinal - Emile Zola No.
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray No
80 Possession - AS Byatt X!

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X!
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ?
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker No, unlikely
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro No
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry No
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 X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x]

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X, bleck.
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ?
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams No
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole No
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute No
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas No
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X, of course
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl No
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X
Which books have you read or plan to read?


- Put an (x) after those you have read.
- Put (#) those you plan on reading. I failed to complete this part of the assignment. My plans change often.
- Put (~) next to those you didn't finish reading for whatever reason.


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 [x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [~]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [ ]

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 [ ]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x]
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 [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ]

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [ ]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [ ]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
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 [x]

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
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 [ ]
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [ ]
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [ ]
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 [ ]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [ ]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [x]
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
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 [ ]

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [ ]
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 [ ]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [ ]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [ ]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [ ]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [ ]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x] Ugh. Only because I had to!
76 The Inferno – Dante [ ]
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 [ ]
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [x]
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 [x]
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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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 []
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]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [~]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens []

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy []
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller []
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ~] Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [X]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [X]
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 []
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy []
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams []
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky []
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] The least favorite of all books I have ever read.
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 [X]
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 []
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres []
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [#]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown []
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [#]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving []
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins []
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy []
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 []
52 Dune - Frank Herbert []
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 []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [#]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [#]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
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 [X]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [X]
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 Inferno – Dante []
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal - Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt []

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 []
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 []
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 [X]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo []
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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 [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ X]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[~]
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 [x]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [x]

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [#]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller []
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [x] Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [X]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [#]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot []

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell []
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [x]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy []
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [#]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky []
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] The least favorite of all books I have ever read.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x]

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy []
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [X]
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 []
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres []
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [#]
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 []
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 [#]
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan []

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel []
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]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [#]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [#]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [~]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [X]
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 Inferno – Dante []
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 []
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [x]
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 []
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 [x]
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [ ]
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams [x]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [x]
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [ ]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [X]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo []

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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 [ ] Seen the movie
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [~] Seen the movies, will most likely not try to read it.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[ ] Seen some of the movies, not interested in reading the books.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [ ]
6 The Bible [#]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [#]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [ ]

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [#] Seen the movie
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [~]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [~] I can't remember if I finished it or not
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ]

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [ ]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [ ]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [ ]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [~#]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [ ]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [#] I've only read bad rewrites and seen most of the movies.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ]

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens []
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [~]
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 [ ]
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 []
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 []
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 - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck []
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x] One of my favorites
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x] Love it, really great.
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 []
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett []
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce []
76 The Inferno – Dante []
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 []
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell []
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 []
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 [x] Read all three books. They're really really great.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare []
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [] not read this book, I love Roald Dahl's books though.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo []
If you can read this I'll enjoy your company.
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 [~]
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 [x]
6 The Bible [~]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte []
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [~]

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [~]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [~]
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 [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot []

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell []
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [x]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [~]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams []
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x]
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 [x]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens []
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis []
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 [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 [x]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins []
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [~]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [x]
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 [~]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert []
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 [x]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [x]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]

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 []
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 []
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 [x]
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 [x]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl []
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [x]

There is no accounting for taste. A lot of these titles make me cringe.
Mark Butkus
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 [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [xxxxxxx] Too many times smile
6 The Bible [x]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell []
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 []
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [x] Most of them several times
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier []
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
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 []
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 [x]

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy []
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [x]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen []
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis[x]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini []
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [x]
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 []
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving []
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins []
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 []
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]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [xxxxxx] Never tire of reading this
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac []
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett []
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
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 []
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 []
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 [x]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [x]

“Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”

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 [ ]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [#]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [x]

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [~]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [#]
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 [#]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ]

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [#]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [#]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [#]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [#]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x]
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 - CS Lewis [ ] - Have read Prince Caspian though.
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 [x]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] - NOT a book. Its EPIC.
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 []
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 []
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 [ ]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [~] - Stories about love are not for me.

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck []
62 - Vladimir Nabokov []
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [#]
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 [x]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker []
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett []
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [#]
76 The Inferno – Dante [#]
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 []
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 []
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x] Beautiful.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x]

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad []
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x?] I think I was too young when I read this, need to find it again.
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 [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [#]
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [x]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [#]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [#]

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [#]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [~]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [#]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ]

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [ ]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [#]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [x]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [#]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [ ]
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 [~]
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 [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 [ ]
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [#]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [x]

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [ ]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [ ]
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 [ ]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [#]
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 [ ]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [ ]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [ ]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [#]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [x]
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 [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [ ]
76 The Inferno – Dante [ ]
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 [#]
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 [ ]
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 [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ]

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [ ]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x]
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 [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [ ]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x ]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [=]
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 [some]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x ]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ~[ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [#]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [x ]

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [xxxxxxx ]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [#]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [xx]
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 [x ]

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x ]
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 Bernieres [x ]
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 [x ]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [ x]
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [# ]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [x ]
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 [# ]
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [x ]
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [#]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [x]
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [x ]
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [ ]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x]
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 [x ]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [#]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [# ]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x ]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [# ]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [? ]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [#]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [x]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [# ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [# ]
76 The Inferno – Dante [# ]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [x ]
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [x ]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x ]
80 Possession - AS Byatt [# ]

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [#]
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 [ ]
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 [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ]

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [# ]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x]
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 [ x]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [~]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [#]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [ x]
Love colours our worlds in endless dimensions and unifies all aspects of our activities. Just as sunlight filters through clouds and causes the grasses to turn gold so everything is interlinked in our world.
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [#]
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 [ ]
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 [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ]

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [# ]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x]
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 [ x]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [~]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [#]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [ x]
Love colours our worlds in endless dimensions and unifies all aspects of our activities. Just as sunlight filters through clouds and causes the grasses to turn gold so everything is interlinked in our world.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[ ]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [ ]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ]
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 [ ]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ]
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 [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [x]

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [ ]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [ ]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams []
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky []
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [ ]
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 [x]
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[ ]
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 [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [ ]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
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 [ ]
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 []
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 - Mark Haddon [ ]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [ ]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [ ]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
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 [x]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker []
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [ ]
76 The Inferno – Dante [ ]
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 []
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 []
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 [x]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [ ]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [ ]
We don't know how much we don't know.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte []
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [~]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte []
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [#]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens []

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott []
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller []
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [#]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier []
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk []
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger []
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [#]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot []

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell []
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald []
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [#]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [#]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky []
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck []
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 []
34 Emma - Jane Austen [x]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [x]
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 [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown []
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []
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 []
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 []
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 - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck []
62 - 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 []
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville []

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 []
76 The Inferno – Dante []
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 [~]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell []
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 []
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 [x]

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 [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo []
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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.

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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] x
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] x
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ] x
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[x] x
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] x
6 The Bible [~] x
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] x
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [#] x
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ] ?
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [x] x

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x] x
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x] #
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [#] x
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth x
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [#] ?
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [~] x
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] ?
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x] x
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] #
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [x] #

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] *
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x] x
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [] #
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x] *
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [] ?
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [] #
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] x
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] #
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x] x

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x] x
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [] *
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x] #
34 Emma - Jane Austen [~] x
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [~] #
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis[x] x
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [x] ?
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [] #
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] x
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] *

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] x
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 [] ?
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x] x
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [] ?
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] I did not enjoy this book. x
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x] x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [x] ?

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [#] ?
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [] *
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [] ?
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen[] x
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [x] ?
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 - Mark Haddon [#] ?
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] ?

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x] x
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [~#] x
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [] ?
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [] ?
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x] x
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [] ?
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [] ?
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [] x
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [~] x

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [] x
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [] x
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x] x
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [] ?
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x] x
76 The Inferno – Dante [x] x
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [] ?
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [] ?
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x] *
80 Possession - AS Byatt [] ?

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 [] #
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [#] x
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [] ?
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x] 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 [x] x

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 [~] x
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [~] x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] x
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [~]
x
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?

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 [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]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
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 [~]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
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 [x]

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [ ]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [x]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [~]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [ ]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [ ]
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 [x]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [x]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [x]
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis[ ]
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 [#]
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 [x]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [#]
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 [#]

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [#]
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]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [x]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [#]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [x]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [ ]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [x]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [ ]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ]
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [ ]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt [ ]

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 [ ]
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 [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ]

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x]
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 - Alexander Dumas [ ]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [x]
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [#]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [~]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [#]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens []

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [#]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [#]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [x#] Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier []
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [#]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [#]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot []

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell []
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
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 [#]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [x]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [x]
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 [x]

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [~]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []
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 []
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan []

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [#]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [x]
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 [#]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [#]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [#]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [#]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [in progress]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
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 [x]

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 []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce []
76 The Inferno – Dante [#]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal - Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt []

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 []
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 []
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] (The Count of Monte Cristo is better.)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo []
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
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 [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 [x] Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier []
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’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 [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 [x]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [~]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame []

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
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[]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini []
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 [#]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving []
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins []
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 [#]
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]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [x]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal - Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt []

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell []
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [x]
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro []
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 [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton []

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x] I have taught this.
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 [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [x]
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen []
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [~]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte []
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [x]

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott []
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [x]

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell []
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 []
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x]

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
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 [x]
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 [x]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins []
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery []
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 [x]
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [x]
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen[]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [x]
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [x]
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 []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [x]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [x]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett []
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [x]
78 Germinal - Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt []

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [x]
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [x]
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [x]
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 [x]
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 [x]
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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63/100... I am impressed. I wasn't sure you could read.
I'm not sure I could even list 5 !
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 [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[ ]
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 [X]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [X]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [X]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [x]

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 [x]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x]

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
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 [ ]
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [ ]
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [x]
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [ ]

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [ ]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [x]
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]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [X]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [ ]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [ ]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [x]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [ ]
76 The Inferno – Dante [ ]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ]
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [ ]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt [ ]

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 [ ]
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 [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ]

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x]
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 [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [ ]

By my count I have read 63 of these. I was hoping I'd done better when I started ticking them off.
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 [X]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[X]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [ ]
6 The Bible [X]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [X]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [X]
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [ ]

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [X]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [~]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [X]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [X]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [X]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [X]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ]

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [X]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [ ]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [ ]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [~]
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 [X]

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 [ ]
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [X]
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [ ]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [X]

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [X]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [ ]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
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 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 [ ]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [~]
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 [~]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [X]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [X]
62 - 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 [ ]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [~]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [X]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [X]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [ ]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [X]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [X]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [#]
76 The Inferno – Dante [#]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [X]
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [~]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [X]
80 Possession - AS Byatt [ ]

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 [#]
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 [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 [X]
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 [ ]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [ ]
For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. Hebrews 4:12
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [X ]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[~]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [~]
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 [#]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [~] Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [#]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [X]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’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 [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 [X]
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 [x]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [X]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [X]
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 [x]

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [x]
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 [#]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins []
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
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 []
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]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [X]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [#]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [#]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [#]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [X] No way this belongs in the Top 100
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [X]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [X]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [X]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett []
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [~]
76 The Inferno – Dante [~]
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 []
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker []
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [#]
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [X]
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 [X]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton []

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [#]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [X]
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 [X]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [X]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [X]
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?


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 [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 [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 []
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [x] Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
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 []
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 [x]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x]

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [~]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens []
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [x]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [~]
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis[x]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini []
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 []
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving []
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins []
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy []
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 [#]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [x]
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]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley []
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x]

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [~]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal - Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt []

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell []
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [x]
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 []
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 [x]
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 [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [x]
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 [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ x]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[~]
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 []
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller []
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [x ]
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 [ ]
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 []
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 [x]
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 [x]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
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[]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini []
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 []
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving []
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins []
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [x]
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x]
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan []

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]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal - Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt []

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 []
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 [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton []

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x]
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 [x]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [x]
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