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Bold - Read it.
Italic - Read bits of it.
Underline - Read it multiple times.
01) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen I've read P&P&Zombies, if that counts.
02) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Had to read this for school.
04) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06) The Bible Blame it on my Sunday School.
07) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell Had to read it for school.
09) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman The first book is better than the film (yawn).
10) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Brilliant book.
14) Complete Works of Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Merchant of Venice, Macbeth etc
15) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
I read this every year to each class of children--a gorgeously illustrated version.
17) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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
23) The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
24) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 42!!!
26) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28) Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck Had to read it for school.
29) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ...and Through the Looking Glass
30) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Had to read this for school.
33) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
34) Emma -Jane Austen
35) Persuasion - Jane Austen
36) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis I want to read Planet Narnia.
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 - A.A. Milne A long time ago, about last Thursday...
41) Animal Farm - George Orwell Had to read this for school.
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 Had to read this for school & The Mayor of Casterbridge & Under the Greenwood Tree
48) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49) Lord of the Flies - William Golding Had to read this for school.
50) Atonement - Ian McEwan
51) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52) Dune - Frank Herbert Tried the sequels but couldn't be bothered. I'd overdosed on 'spice'.
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 Had to read this for school. It started me on a decade of SF.
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 I like the way it's written as a series of letters and journal entries.
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 I love this so much. I like watching a good adaptation...don't laugh but I like The Muppets version as well. :D
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 - E.B. White One of those must-read to a class of children, followed by watching the animated film.
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 I don't know why this is on the list. Modern children just don't take to it.
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 I spent two weeks studying seagulls on Skomer. Adams read the book on rabbit behaviour that was written there.
95) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Oh my valve! What an amazing book. Ignatius is the hero but NOLA is the heroine.
96) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute I had to read it for school (and No Highway) and found it moving.
97) Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
98) Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl I've read them all and read most many times to classes. Danny the Champion of the World is tremendous.
100) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
mellifluous_ink Bold - Read it.
Italic - Read bits of it.
Underline - Read it multiple times.
01) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen I've read P&P&Zombies, if that counts.
02) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Had to read this for school.
04) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06) The Bible Blame it on my Sunday School.
07) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell Had to read it for school.
09) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman The first book is better than the film (yawn).
10) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Brilliant book.
14) Complete Works of Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Merchant of Venice, Macbeth etc
15) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
I read this every year to each class of children--a gorgeously illustrated version.
17) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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
23) The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
24) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 42!!!
26) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28) Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck Had to read it for school.
29) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ...and Through the Looking Glass
30) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Had to read this for school.
33) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
34) Emma -Jane Austen
35) Persuasion - Jane Austen
36) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis I want to read Planet Narnia.
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 - A.A. Milne A long time ago, about last Thursday...
41) Animal Farm - George Orwell Had to read this for school.
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 Had to read this for school & The Mayor of Casterbridge & Under the Greenwood Tree
48) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49) Lord of the Flies - William Golding Had to read this for school.
50) Atonement - Ian McEwan
51) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52) Dune - Frank Herbert Tried the sequels but couldn't be bothered. I'd overdosed on 'spice'.
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 Had to read this for school. It started me on a decade of SF.
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 I like the way it's written as a series of letters and journal entries.
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 I love this so much. I like watching a good adaptation...don't laugh but I like The Muppets version as well. :D
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 - E.B. White One of those must-read to a class of children, followed by watching the animated film.
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 I don't know why this is on the list. Modern children just don't take to it.
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 I spent two weeks studying seagulls on Skomer. Adams read the book on rabbit behaviour that was written there.
95) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Oh my valve! What an amazing book. Ignatius is the hero but NOLA is the heroine.
96) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute I had to read it for school (and No Highway) and found it moving.
97) Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
98) Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl I've read them all and read most many times to classes. Danny the Champion of the World is tremendous.
100) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
