Stolen from ~scarredsodeep. I wasn't tagged, but she loves me, so I'm assuming.
Bold the books youve read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones youve read part of, and star ☆ the ones you honestly plan to read. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesnt count. Abridged versions dont count either. According to the BBC if youve read 7 of these, you are above the average!
Total Completely Read: 32/100
oo1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
oo2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
oo3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
oo4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
oo5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Fantastic book.
oo6. The Bible
oo7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
oo8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
oo9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
o1o. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
o11. * Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
o12. Tess of the DUrbervilles - Thomas Hardy
o13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
o14. Complete Works of William Shakespeare
o15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
o16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
o17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
o18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
o19. The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
o2o. Middlemarch - George Eliot
o21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
o22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Indeed, TERRIBLE.
o23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
o24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
o25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Do they mean the whole trilogy? 'Cause I've only read the first one.
o26. * Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
o27. * Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
o28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
o29. * Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
o3o. * The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
o31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
o32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
o33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
o34. Emma - Jane Austen
o35. * Persuasion - Jane Austen
o36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
o37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
o38. Captain Corellis Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
o39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
o4o. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
o41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
o42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown This book was kind of dumb. I'm not really sure it deserves to be on a list with Tolkien, Austen, Tolstoy and Atwood.
o43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
o44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
o45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
o46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
o47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
o48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
o49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
o5o. Atonement - Ian McEwan
o51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
o52. Dune - Frank Herbert I tried...I just couldn't get into it.
o53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
o54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
o55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
o56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon This is the book I'm reading right now... Creepy...
o57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
o58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Possibly the best conception of the future ever.
o59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
o6o. *Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
o61. * Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
o62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
o63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
o64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
o65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
o66. *On The Road - Jack Kerouac
o67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
o68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
o69. Midnights Children - Salman Rushdie
o7o. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
o71. *Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
o72. * Dracula - Bram Stoker
o73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
o74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
o75. *Ulysses - James Joyce
o76. The Inferno Dante
o77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
o78. Germinal - Emile Zola
o79. *Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
o8o. * Possession - AS Byatt
o81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
o82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
o83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
o84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
o85. *Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
o86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
o87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
o88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
o89. *Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
o9o. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
o91. * Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
o92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
o93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
o94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
o95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
o96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
o97. *The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
o98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
o99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
1oo. * Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I do honestly intend to read the ones I starred, but next on my list are Boneshaker and whatever feminist theory I can find at the library, so it probably won't be for a while.












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Les artistes sont les anarchistes toujours.
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"Affairs of the heart always matter, no matter how silly or stupid. The heart knows no logic." -Jean-Paul Beaubier, UXM 410--Chuck Austen
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Les artistes sont les anarchistes toujours.
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"Affairs of the heart always matter, no matter how silly or stupid. The heart knows no logic." -Jean-Paul Beaubier, UXM 410--Chuck Austen
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Les artistes sont les anarchistes toujours.
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(Besides the fact that we are, of course, the meat of one another's souls.)
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Les artistes sont les anarchistes toujours.
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