Here's a list of 100 works of writing that I found on a livejournal a while back. You're supposed to bold the ones you've read and italicize the ones you plan on reading. I'd like to read everything but I'll just italicize the ones I've heard of and definitely plan on reading...
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 - I read Golden Compass and plan to read the other two.
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
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
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
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 - Only Down the Rabbit Hole, haven't read Through the Looking Glass
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-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 Rush
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 - I've read a number of them, but still working on finishing all of them
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
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Reading List
Posted on 8:40:00 PM by Morgan York
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Why isn't Stephen King on the list?!!!
ReplyDeleteYou have read a lot of fantastic books, and plan to ready many as well. If I may though I would like to recommend The Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It is an amazing tale.
ReplyDeleteI've read most of the Charles Dickens' books except A Christmas Carol, and my favorite one is David Copperfield. Also Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, all of Sherlock Holmes books by Arthur Conan Doyle and there are some new Sherlock Holmes books by various authors. A Few William Shakespeares, some of Augusta Christie's amazing and thrilling novels. I'm planning read Memoirs of a Geisha. My favorite book from this list is "War and Peace"
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with American education, but I think that "Catcher in the Rye" is one of these books they teach at schools there. Like "To Kill A Mockingbird".
ReplyDeleteAnyway, a sad story about this book, is that it was the book that John Lennon's murder was reading before he killed him. Watch the movie "Chapter 27" with Jared Leto and Lindsay Lohan.
(A weird fact about this movie, is that the killer's name is Mark Chapman, and the actor's name who plays Lennon in the movie is...Mark Chapman! Unbelievable...)
And I saw that you haven't italicized "The Remains Of The Day", bi Ishighuro. Haven't you seen the film? Both book and film (and soundtrack) are incredible. It's somehow strange how a Japanese author could write such a British type of book, set in 1930's English countryside.
"John Lennon's murderer".
ReplyDelete"The Remains of the Day BY Ishiguro".
(Doesn't this site have "edit", so we can correct if we made a mistake?)
You can't edit your comments, I'm afraid! And I'm not sure how to change that.
ReplyDeleteYes, I knew Mark Chapman was reading that before/after he murdered Lennon. Such an awful story, and I'm a big Lennon fan.
I have never bored watching the Pride and Prejudice Movie. We tend to put prejudgment before we seek the truth of something especially if it is the talk of the town. Dig for truth.
ReplyDelete^Exactly. P&P wasn't my favorite, but I enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteWell its hard for me to say which one i had read because i am reading novel since i am 9 or 10 years old. But some name seems familiar like pride and prejudice, sherlock holames, emma, etc i think i had read more than 170 novels. A 89 of them is in my own collection.
ReplyDeleteI would prefer you to read every one of them they are really good becuse every writer have his own way of writing.
I really love Harry Potter and Narnia :)
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