Thursday, July 17, 2008

Just a little something Marty sent me...

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you started but did not finish.
3) Underline the books you LOVE. (I can't seem to underline so double ** will do)
4) Asterisk those books you know you want to read.


1. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams*
3. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood*
4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding*
5. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
6. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. The Color Purple - Alice Walker*
8. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
9. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee**
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
12. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell*
13. His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman*
14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
18. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
20. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll**
21. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis*
22. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
23. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
24. Animal Farm - George Orwell**
25. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley*
26. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck*
27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
28. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
29. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White**
30. Hamlet - William Shakespeare**
31. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl**
32. Complete Works of Shakespeare*
33. Ulysses - James Joyce**
34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
35. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo*
36. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen**
37. The Bible
38. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy*
40. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
41. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy*
42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
46. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
47. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
48. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
49. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien**
50. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling**
51. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
52. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
53. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
54. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
55. Middlemarch - George Eliot
56. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell*
57. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
58. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
59. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
60. Emma - Jane Austen**
61. Persuasion - Jane Austen*
62. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
63. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden*
64. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown**
65. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
66. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
67. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery**
68. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
69. Atonement - Ian McEwan
70. Dune - Frank Herbert
71. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
72. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
73. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
74. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
75. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt*
77. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold*
78. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas*
79. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
80. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
81. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
82. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
83. Dracula - Bram Stoker
84. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
85. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
86. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
87. Germinal - Emile Zola
88. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
89. Possession - A.S. Byatt
90. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
91. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
92. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
93. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
94. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
95. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom*
96. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
97. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
98. Watership Down – Richard Adams
99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
100. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas*

Well this is my list. I have read a few, started but not finished some, and have a couple I want to read as well. Plus some I have never heard of. It is kind of funny that most of the book on this list that I have read, I did so while in school as required reading, between the 4th and 12 grades.

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