100 Books

I saw this on face,  and since it was on the profile of a person I don’t really care for (old college frenemy),  and I’m feeling competetive today,  I thought I’d give it a go.  He had read 36 of the books.

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
2) Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.

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
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 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 Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger X +
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 +
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky X +
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck X +
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 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 X +
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (What’s up with Narnia being on here twice?) X +
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini X +
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
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 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 X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon X +
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – 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
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
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 Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
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 +

55 – not bad.   Some books I mean to read, some I wish I hadn’t.   All in all, I’ve got to say…. 55 is more then 36.  /gloat.

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