Another List of 100 Books

I’ve stayed away from blog memes but just felt like this one. Via DovBear, here are 100 books. Bold for those you’ve read fully, italics for partially read. The BBC thinks the average person’s read 6/100. I got 30/100 so I’m obviously in dire need of a life. If you like procrastinating then you will consider yourself tagged whether I say so or not, so in a way you’re tagged!

What’d others get?

  1. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
  2. The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
  3. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
  4. Harry Potter series JK Rowling
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
  6. The Bible
  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
  12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
  13. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
  14. Complete Works of Shakespeare William Shakespeare
  15. Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
  16. The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
  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. Bleak House Charles Dickens
  24. War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
  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. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernières
  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
  57. A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
  58. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
  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
  73. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
  74. Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
  75. Ulysses James Joyce
  76. The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
  77. Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
  78. Germinal Emile Zola
  79. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
  80. Possession AS Byatt (FOR HIGH SCHOOL NOT PLEASURE!!1!)
  81. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
  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
  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 Misérables Victor Hugo

6 comments ↓

#1 Marija on 12.10.10 at 8:15 pm

I’ve read more – does that make me nerdier than you? =P

#2 keith on 12.11.10 at 12:04 pm

Don’t feel bad. I had 30 total, 3 of which are partial reads since the are collections and I have read quite a bit of them. (the bible, Sherlock Holmes, and Shakespeare)

1.The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
2.Harry Potter series JK Rowling
3.To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
4.The Bible
5.Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
6.His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
7.Catch-22 Joseph Heller
8.Complete Works of Shakespeare William Shakespeare
9.The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
10.Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
11.The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
12.Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
13.Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
14.Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
15.The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
16.Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
17.Animal Farm George Orwell
18.The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
19.The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
20.Lord of the Flies William Golding
21.Dune Frank Herbert
22.A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
23.Brave New World Aldous Huxley
24.Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
25.Dracula Bram Stoker
26.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
27.Watership Down Richard Adams
28.The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
29.Hamlet William Shakespeare
30.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl

#3 Takis Konstantopoulos on 12.11.10 at 6:36 pm

This is how I scored.

#4 William on 12.13.10 at 2:12 pm

I read 5 and have about 20 of them on my shelf.

#5 Robert Oerter on 12.14.10 at 5:56 am

I’ve read, or partially read, um, 70. What does that make me?

#6 michael on 12.17.10 at 9:30 pm

Wow, I think that’s record-breaking! I guess the rest of us are just smallscale nerds then.

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