2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 4 Harry Potter series – 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel I've read 16 with number 17 (Cloud Atlas) coming as soon as I see the movie. Since I'm guessing the movie can't come close to the book I want to enjoy the movie first before I read the book. I doubt there are any others on that list I'll read. Fun list tho.
Oh my God, LOL at me! *facepalm* I've only read 1 in those list. Oh my, *facepalm* XD Only The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. Oh my . . . I am really unfamiliar with most of the list. I'm only probably familiar with at most 10 in the list. This is embarrassing, really. *facepalm* I'm a young adult, so I'm only familiar with YA novels.
36/100, woot! The list seems skewed with regard to genre (for example, there are four Jane Austen books!)
8... and several of the 8 I mention are from ages ago, probably SparkNoted the lot of them : / ... Oh well, guess I either have some reading to do, or some research to help defend my claim that it is better not to read such popular works of literature. I'm assuming I'm better off with the former. Thanks for the list!
From that list, only Nine Harry potter series are 7 though, and Lord of the Rings are 3. The bible The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Not a bit fan of CoN (Only read the first two) The Hobbit, Master piece xD One hundred years of solitude, pretty good. Jane Eyre, honestly I didn't like it Lord of the flies, excelent Hamlet. I still think is overrated.
1....and only because I read To Kill A Mockingbird in school. I've only read a portion of the Bible so I can't really count it. I have read many books in my lifetime, just none, apparently, on this list.
Wow. Way to point out how much time I must have spent reading in my life because I've read all but about 7 of these haha. Most are really great books too. Well...except Great Expectations. Dickens is trash.
28 here. There are a few I have and am going to read, or want to read, but some I just don't care about even looking at. Now, at the risk of sounding like an elitist, where is Paradise Lost? Homer? Where is Byron, Wordsworth, Burns or Keats? Virginia Wolf or Robert Louis Stephenson? Like others I'm a bit confused by Hamlet being named after the complete works of Shakespeare too. This just just isn't a very good list to be honest. Actually it's not. It's one novel in 6 books, in 3 volumes. Tolkien was always quite clear he wanted it that way.
Since my last post, the number has gone up to 37. I'm still confused by the complete works of Shakespeare being listed as one book (I only included Hamlet in my count). It's an odd list for sure. I wonder how they came up with it.
I got 14, but I have wanted to read most of those titles, just never gotten around to doing it... bummer. I have read many other titles though. One of those titles in particular that I really want to read is War and Peace by Leo Tolstroy... Does anyone have any good reviews about it? Once I had a teacher who had recommended it to me and told me if I could read that I could read anything... Might check it out next visit to the library =) well see though. What do you guys think?
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen * 2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 4 Harry Potter series – 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee * 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte * 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens * 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger * 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald * 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (One of my all time favorite "trilogies.") 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens * 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell * 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding * 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen * 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens * 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley * 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck * 64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas * 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville * 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens * 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad * 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare * 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo 37 - Though truth be told, all the * ones were only read because of assigned readings in high school/university.
39. And some of the ones I have started but not finished so couldn't add to that count were: Great Expectations - still haven't finished it but will one day Bible - not sure this will happen to be honest Shakespeare - My husband and I came up with the idea of reading the whole thing but we got fogged down near the beginning Kite runner - I got as far as THAT scene for book group and couldn't bear to read any more
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (assigned in HS) 6 The Bible 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (assigned in HS) 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (assigned in HS) 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell (assigned in HS) 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (my fanatic teacher made us do a play in 3rd grade. That count?)
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen No 2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien Yes 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte No 4 Harry Potter series – Yes 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee Yes 6 The Bible Part of it, I'm an Atheist though 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte No 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell No 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman No 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens Yes 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott No 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy No 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller No 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Yes, Some 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier No 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien Yes 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks No 18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger Yes 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger No 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot No 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell No 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald Yes 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens Yes 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy No 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams No 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh No 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky No 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck No 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll Yes 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame Yes 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens Yes 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis yes 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis Yes 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 Yes 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell Yes 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 Yes 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 Yes 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 Yes 62 bleep – 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 Yes 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens Yes 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker Yes 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett Yes 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce Yes 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 Yes 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 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 Yes 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery Yes 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 Yes 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare Yes 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl Yes 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo Yes Read about 35 of those.
I have read ten of those, but this list has inpsired me and i shall knuckle down this very moment and work may throught it
Hi, I think if these are the important reads, I've got a lot to go. 2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 6 The Bible 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller (Loved this, have read it many times for the dark, twisted humour). 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Not all, only the ones I was forced to read in school.) 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (Again, only because I was forced to read it in school.) 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding (We have a theme here - forced to read it in school.) 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville (Snap, forced to read it at school.) 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams I made twenty, but I wouldn't have got nearly so far were it not for school! Cheers, Greg.
From the list I have read these; 1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 4 Harry Potter series – 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett Wow! eleven By my selection you can tell that I'm a girl!
I'm interested to know the original source of this list to better understand how it was come to. Has anyone got the link to the BBC article? For the record: 2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl So twelve, though some were read a very long time ago I do particularly want to read this one though: 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon Ian
