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Posted on | November 29, 2010 | No Comments

Stolen from @Hawthorne, even though he didn’t tag me. 😉

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES◊. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!

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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

16. The Hobbit ~ JRR Tolkien

17. Birdsong ~ Sebastian Faulk

18. Catcher in the Rye ~ JD Salinger

19. The Time Traveler’s Wife ~ Audrey Niffenegger (It was a gift. I tried. I really tried)

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 Berniere

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 (not even if ya’ paid me)

43. One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney ~ John Irving

45. The Woman in White ~ Wilkie Collins (Nope, but it is free for Kindle, so I may give it a go*)

46. Anne of Green Gables ~ LM Montgomery

47. Far From The Madding Crowd ~ Thomas Hardy (Nope, but this one is free for Kindle, too*)

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 (Desert Martini picked this as the first book for her online book club. I couldn’t get through the 2nd chapter. Ugh)

63. The Secret History ~ Donna Tartt

64. The Lovely Bones ~ Alice Sebold (Love the book. Thoroughly disappointed by the movie)

65. Count of Monte Cristo ~ Alexandre Dumas (Just introduced D to the story via 2002 movie; he’s a fan 🙂 )

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

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Interesting point (for me, anyway) is how many of these books I read as a direct result of my brother. Thanks for your influence in many things, B.

Sad note is how little I remember of the details of the books on this list that I have read. Some are worth revisiting.

◊ I didn’t put this in my Facebook notes because I’m a rebel like that. And this will feed to my profile, anyway.

* A lot of the books on this list are free for the Kindle, go check it out



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