Apparently most people have only read 6 out of the 100 top books (a great shame). So here's mine- bold one are ones I've read, italics means I want to read them and underlined means I love said book.
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
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (I do know the opening line off by heart though0
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (Only read some of it)
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller'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 (Now that I've read it all it's offically my favourite book I've ever read)
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 (Reading this at the moment and very much enjoying it)
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (I've read 3 of the books all the way through and started but never finished the other 4)
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Why is this seperate to the Chronicles of Narnia?)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (I want to read it after meeting the author)
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 (Started it but never finished)
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 (Did start reading it during my GCSEs, but it wasvery hard to juggle bewteen the two so I gave up)
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 (I think this might be the only book on the list I've never heard of!)
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (Did start reading it once but it was during A Level revision, not a good mix)
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 (Currently been turned into a movie by Peter Jackson)
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (Started it but never finished it)
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' 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 (That's two book I've not heard of before...)
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (I did start reading it but didn't finish it, even though I really was enjoying it)
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 (Bright eyes, burning like fire...)
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 (My favourite play ever!)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
23/100
I'm a bit disappointed by that, I'd thought it'd be more! If I included books I've started and not finished then it'd be 37, which looks better.
3 comments:
I wondered why The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was seperate to the Chronicles too. It doesn't really make much sense!
Out of interest, what did you think of Alice in Wonderland. I have an illustrated version that my nan gave me when I was younger, and to be honest the whole thing just kinda weirded me out!
Totally agree on 'Alice', it werided me out as well! I'm not a big fan of uber-surreal stories like that, they don't hold much weight for me. I think reading it with an older mind it's hard not to avoid the drug reference... speaking of which there's a fantastic song called 'White Rabbit' by Jefferson Airplane which was released in the 60's. It's a clever song because at the time censors would ban songs with drug references, so they got away with it by bringing out all the drug allusions from 'Alice'! (Go youtube it!)
Yeah same. Although I enjoy some fantasy novels, I still prefer them to have an element of truth or realism. I haven't read it since the time I first read it when I was much younger, but I might reread it at some point, if only to refresh my memory. It will be interesting to see if my opinions on it change. I think mostly I didn't like it when I read it because it was so different from the Disney movie, haha. It sounds daft, but I guess it makes sense when you realise I can't have been older than ten when I read the book.
I think I recognise that song, but only the name. I will have to go and find it now! :D
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