Guest Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible X (but not from cover to cover) 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan X 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X 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 X 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X 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 X 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 X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X 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 X 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom X 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 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 X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 46 The classics like Austen, Dickens and Shakespeare in school - does that count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I've read... 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles (except the one I read was written by George Orwell! ) 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (set text for O level) 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (set text for library reading group) 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery I've started quite a few of the others but never got round to finishing them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackiepoppies Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Crikey....I'm impressed I can only own up to 20 of them but I have always got a book on the go Does that mean I am reading rubbish......or......perhaps I have discovered 'classics' ahead of my time Jx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 some of the ones listed I read at school, but I still read them I hated it when Harry Potter ended! I have literally re read the books over and over and over. Love them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I've not done too badly, quite surprised really. My languages degree helped a bit!! It's funny some of these books haven't entered my thoughts for years and years....such a good reminder 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - I love this book! (and the black and white film!) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - in Spanish 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola - in French 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - in French!89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - in part 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - such a beautiful, beautiful book! If you can manage to read it in French it really is wonderful 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Crikey....I'm impressed I can only own up to 20 of them but I have always got a book on the go ... I usually have 2 or 3 on the go, just not the ones on the list. At the mo I'm reading Bill Bryson- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Hugh Fearnely Whittingstall- Hugh Fearlessly Eats It All and I've just finished Robin Shelton's- Alotted Time- I'm also flicking thru some self sufficieny/alottment/cookery type books. I have to say though, Jane Eyre and Madame Bovary are 2 of my all time favourites. Oh yes, where were the Graham Greenes and the Somerset Maughams???? 'Of Human Bondage' and 'Brighton Rock' are classics IMO??? I was also fond of Orson Welles' 'Down and Out in Paris and London' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 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 - Parts of... Where is No.7 ????? 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles - def. by 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 - some of..... 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 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 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 Meany - 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 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 I think that's 46 - I was surprised as I mostly read biographies and have at least one book on the go all the time.........and a load of books for farm animal research! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 ooh your all colour coordinated with your avatar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzle Knit Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ONLY THE FIRST 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 6 The Bible - SOME OF IT 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 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 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen X 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin X 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving X 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins X 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X 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 X 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 X 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie X 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell X 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro X 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - X 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry X 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 X 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 X 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute X 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 52 - WHICH IS MORE THAN I EXPECTED! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I best pick up a book again sometime soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 At the mo I'm reading Bill Bryson- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid That is a great book Poet, in fact I have loved all of his books. He is certainly on my top 10 authors list I thought that it would all go over my head, with him being American & growing up there, but I just love the was he writes things & his humor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falkor Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan X 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X Total: 29 I thought I was quite well read....well off to the library tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 6 The Bible - some parts not all 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 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 x 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 x 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan X 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth x 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon x 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 X 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez tried but never finished it yet! 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 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 X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie x 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 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 x reading it again at the moment 80 Possession - AS Byatt x 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell x 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro x 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry x 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x 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 x 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks x 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 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 X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 47 and two halves, and a few bits of Shakespeare but nowhere near the lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HENthusiastic Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 31! I'm impressed I thought I might have embarassed myself, but I'm quite pleased with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassett Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I've read 33 of them, and the list has given me a few more ideas about what to read next! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KateP Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 6 The Bible - 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 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 Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 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 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 X 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 X 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 X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 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 X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville X 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X 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 X 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 X 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X 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 X 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 X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Total 26 A few bits of Shakespeare in school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - x 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles x 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger x 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot x 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy x 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x 34 Emma - Jane Austen x 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin x 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon x 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy x 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute x 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas x 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X Total: 50 but I reckon some should count for more than 1 hit I read a lot but very slowly. and that's sorted out a reading list for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I've read 29 of them. Most quite a while ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Olly Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 well I don't think anyone should feel uneasy about not scoring highly on here - there are quite a few books listed that I've read, and really wouldn't want to read again! And there are others that aren't listed that would definitely be on my 'desert island' list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 At the mo I'm reading Bill Bryson- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid That is a great book Poet, in fact I have loved all of his books. He is certainly on my top 10 authors list I thought that it would all go over my head, with him being American & growing up there, but I just love the was he writes things & his humor me too, he's a superb storyteller too, I love him! I almost forgot, I'm also reading Jackie Moffat's 'Sheepwrecked' at the mo too, a little hard going and I wonder if I should have read 'The Funny Farm' first . Working in the charity shop, I have access to tons of books and it's like being a kid in a sweet shop AND i've been told I can borrow them and take them back when I've finished! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alih Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 77 and 2 1/2s for the Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare....literary degree plus love of reading. Has made me realise I must read some Steinbeck. Any on the list that you have HATED? I couldn't get through Captain Corelli (no, I haven't counted it!) or Midnight's Children and I hated the 5 people you meet in heaven and the Da Vinci Code - thought they were both really hyped too much. Favourite books on the list? Difficult...Jane Austen always, Hardy too and as a child, the Narnia stories..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Couldn't get on at all with The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I don't like The Hobbit but loved The Lord of the Rings. Moby Dick is also awful...... Not keen on Wuthering Heights either. Favourites are The time travellers wife, The life & times of the Tunderbolt kid, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Da Vinci Code, The five people you meet in Heaven, Bridget Jones, Harry Potter, His Dark Materials & The life of Pi. Books I would also like to see on this list of classics are The Beach by Alex Garland, The No 1 ladies detective agency, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant & Driving over lemons by Chris Stewart. They might not be everyones idea of a classic, but I think they are classics of their genre. Also I am suprised that 'The Corrections' isn't listed, although I didn't like it at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alih Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I loved The Corrections after several attempts and agree it should be on there. Cinnamon I will take your list to the bookshop as not heard of a few of those. But I too think the Ladies' Detective Agency is wonderful. Am currently reading All the Pretty Horses by Cormack McCarthy (who wrote The Road and No Country for Old Men) which am loving. Happy reading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
