the 100 books list

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I found this post on SUNDAY MORNING SUGAR called "100 books to read before you die" and I thought I would share how many I have read or am planning on reading! 

Bold means I've read it. Star (*) means I want to read it.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen* (I have started this book so many times, it will be on my summer reading list)

2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte* (I need to add it to a list)

4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling 

5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee*

6 The Bible* (I've read the entire New Testament - this year)

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell (Favorite book of all time)

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (tried reading it when I was in middle school... I couldn't)

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read a majority)

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

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot*

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (Just read it this year)

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy*

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams*

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* (Again started it many times... I will conquer it)

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis*

34 Emma – Jane Austen*

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis* (wait... wasn't the chronicles of narnia number 33??)

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 (GREAT BOOK!!)

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I've read about 75% of that book for a class... I hated it with a passion)

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery* (one of those I've started many times...)

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 – Mark Haddon (started it... not sure if I'll ever finish it)

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 Inferno – Dante*

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 (every Christmas I say, I'm going to read the whole thing...)

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* (I received this book on a blog gift exchange... Can't wait to read)

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*

Summary: Alright, I've read only 7 out of 100 books on this list (technically 11 if you count all the harry potter books separately, but then the list would be longer than 100). And I want to read 36 out of the 100 (93). That's not that daunting of a task!

I had originally decided to make a list of books I wanted to read for the summer. But, I think I'm going to go with a more organic approach. Give myself a goal of 25 books and pick and choose. Because, sometimes I really am not in the mood for a book on the list, or it is just awful... But, I will have a wish list of books I would like to conquer in the year of 2011! Stay tuned!