The Top 100 Books

So let’s see: I marked the ones I have read in bold. The ones I might like to read in italics. The ones I wouldn’t be caught dead reading as NP. The ones I have never heard of with a ?. It is true I have never heard of a good many of the books listed. The [1] DHM beat me hands down by well in the teens, but to my credit I have read more Russian novels than she has. 2 of the books I plan to read rather soon: Crime and Punishment and The Three Musketeers. [2] Dewey’s Tree House is also participating, I am neck in neck with her and I am mad at her for saying that I skewered people in my story, which is almost as bad as being called [3] acerbic. Valerie, this is why I try to avoid being humorous

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 This deserves every award it gets. It is a book not a movie. Please read the book before you see the movie. The movie is a great movie but it is not the book.

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 =Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell Only vague memories.

8= His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (?)

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Probably 5 or 6 times.

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (NP)

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 20 down, 10 to go.

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (?)

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (NP)

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (NP)

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell About 40 times in Jr High and highschool.

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Perhaps my favorite Dickens and the new BBC series is wonderful. Perhaps the best casting ever. Dicken’s makes casting easy, I think.

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 Public Highschool

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
Lost count

34 Emma - Jane Austen
My favorite 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 (NP)

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Well, I tried.)

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 Madding…Madding..

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (NP)

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 ( I saw the movie

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 (NP)

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck I went to public highschool.

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (NP)

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 (NP)

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (NP)

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (NP)

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (Probably Not) Just don’t have the heart.

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 (NP)

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (NP)

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 (Not sure)

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( Not sure if I finished this one, but I did finish the movie.)

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 Alborn (NP)

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
I get 2 credits for this one?

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (NP)
I don’t do Dahl!!

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (At least some of it.)