The top 100 books of all time

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Jessu

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What ones have you read?


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 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 William Shakespeare

15 Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks

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

26 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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 Bernières

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-time Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck

62 Lolita 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

68 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding

69 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie

70 Moby **** 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 Bell Jar Sylvia Plath

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

98 Hamlet William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl

100 Les Misérables Victor Hugo
 
What I have read:

1 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien

4 Harry Potter series JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

6 The Bible(not all of it)

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare William Shakespeare(some)

16 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien

18 Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger(some)

21 Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell(part of it for school, got bored watched the movie)

25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams

29 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis(stole it from my 2nd grade teacher)

37 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini(first chapter)

42 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown(angles and deamons was better)

57 A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens(I read it when I was 8, loved it, dont rember what it was about)

70 Moby **** Herman Melville(read it in school)

73 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett( read when I was young)

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(own all of them, havent read all of them)

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl(the grand parents who never got out of bed freaked me out, I like the new movie)
 
Woah, I'm surprised at how many I've read.
2 The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
13 Catch-22 Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien (Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, in process of reading Hamlet, Tempest)
16 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
23 Bleak House Charles Dickens (watched the TV series, does that count?)
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis (and the rest of the series e.g. Boy and is Horse etc.)
40 Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41 Animal Farm George Orwell
(Have made a distinct effort NOT to read The Davinci Code)
49 Lord of the Flies William Golding
58 Brave New World Aldous Huxley (LOVED it)
61 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
(Can’t understand Salman Rushdie but at least I gave book number 69 a try)
71 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
73 The SecretGarden Frances Hodgson Burnett
77 Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome (My dad made me read it, I don’t regret it even though I don’t really like sailing)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl (The *second movie didn’t do it justice and should they try to make an adaptation of The Glass Elevator I’ll kick up a fuss)
 
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46 of the 100 books read and counting. Not going to list the.

Jessu thanks for the list :) it will give me something else to do this summer :read:
 
1,6,8,10,13,18,22,28,29,30,41,46,49!! 57,64,70,71,72,73,81,83,87,91,99,100

so about 25 out of 100 meh not bad. I hardly read books anymore.
 
I've read all of them except 19, 45, 63 and 88.

I can't believe they don't have Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe on that list.
 
I have not read only these 5, but will likely get around to the Rushdie and Niffenegger before the end of the decade:



19 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger

56 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon

69 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom

93 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
 
Not too bad for only 25 years on the planet...

78:

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 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 William Shakespeare

15 Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien

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 Dicken

25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh

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

34 Emma Jane Austen

35 Persuasion Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini

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

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

51 Life of Pi Yann Martel

52 Dune Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen

57 A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon

61 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck

62 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

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

68 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding

70 Moby **** Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens

72 Dracula Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett

75 Ulysses James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath

79 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray

81 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens

83 The Color Purple Alice Walker

85 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert

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

91 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery

94 Watership Down Richard Adams

97 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl

100 Les Misérables Victor Hugo
 
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