At one point, there was this list of books that had gone viral and was spreading around various social networks. There were 100 books listed and you were suppose to mark those that you've read. A lot of them are books that could be assigned for English class, but there are some modern ones. At some point I would like to read through a lot of them, but there will be a few I'll probably have to skip.

 

The list along with it's formatting information is after the jump.

 

 

Bold means I've read the book.

Strike-through means I will probably not read it, at least in the foreseeable future.

Colored Words are my comments.

 

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (It got better towards the end.)

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (Done, even though it took me almost three years.)

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Spent most of summer 2011 reading all seven of these.)

5 To Kill a Mocking Bird-Harper Lee (Really Good Book)

6 The Bible - the whole thing. (1 Year and 8.5 Months, It took a while)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (Very Unlikely)

12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (It really wasn't that great of a book, I've read better)

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (My family owns a copy of this, but I don't think I would be able to read all of it.)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (I didn't really enjoy this one and I'm not sure why it's a classic)

19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (This one was okay, the story got better near the end)

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald (I started this but never finished it.)

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (Competent work, but I wouldn't reread it. )

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

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 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

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

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 (So good, I almost want to go buy it.)

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

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 (Really good book, if you can get past the beginning.)

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 (Fun and enjoyable)

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 (I think I read this a long time ago, but I think it was good, so rereading wouldn't hurt.)

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

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 (Who hasn't read this one?)

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (This was a fairly decent book.)

89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 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

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 (Wouldn't this be covered by Shakespeare's complete works?)

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

 

(Originally Posted on 11/4/10 with 11 books read)

(Bumped on 1/30/11 with 17 books read)

(2/6/2021 - 38 Books Read)