The Top 100 Books

If you don't already read Khanya, I suggest you go take a look. The most recent post referenced this nifty list. Feel free to mark up your own. For the sake of simplicity I'm going to give myself credit for partial reads.

To do this test:

1. Bold the books you have read
2. Italicize the books you intend to read
3. [Bracket] the books you have viewed via movie, TV, or theater

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. 1984 - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. [Great Expectations - Charles Dickens]
11. [Little Women - Louisa May 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]
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 Hitchhiker’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 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 Meany - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Maddening 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 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 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 Miserables - Victor Hugo