This is probably more for my benefit as any of yours as, once again, I'm out of stuff to read. And, although this list is flawed (what with the weird duplications), I can never really resist a book meme.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ.
5) (Special rule for me, because it comes up too often) - Bold & italicize books you started and didn't finish. That always seems to happen with the classics for me.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen My favorite of Jane Austen's. My husband hates it.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien As a longtime fantasy buff, OF COURSE I love this
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - J.K. 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 Trilogy - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Got half-way through, lost track of the copy I was reading. It happens.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller I had a difficult time with the style here. The book didn't quite grab me.
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Like everyone else, I've read some but not all. There are plays I mean to get to one of these days.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier An EXCELLENT book. I highly recommend it to those of you who haven't read it. It's very psychologically interesting.
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien One of my early standbys.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Always been meaning to get to this.
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot Started it, but I can't remember why I stopped.
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 Another classic, in my mind. Everyone should read this.
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 I believe, the earliest series that I read.
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis This is kind of redundant.
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden I've heard it mentioned a few times.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown This I feel as if I should read because everyone else has, and it will probably only take an afternoon.
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 Another of my childhood favorites. I recently re-read even.
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Of school-assigned reading, one of my favorites. I've read it on my own several times as well.
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan I haven't seen the movie either, but I'm interested.
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert Honestly, I find this overrated, but it is good.
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 Thoroughly disturbing.
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 Not my normal genre, but I figure that I should read at least one chick lit book.
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville Gah. My husband loves it, I hate it. But I did read it all.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Yet another childhood favorite.
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 Very odd and not what I expected.
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 I love all Roald Dahl, but this is my favorite.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Got most of the way through it and then my copy was destroyed in my swim bag. And it's a daunting book to start over.