need a good book to read?
i'm not sure if i've posted this before or not - but it's a really good resource for some classics.
i'm working my way (slowly) through this list so i can say i've read more than 6.
which ones have you read?
or better yet - which ones have you not even heard of?
any that you DON'T recommend me reading?
100 books to read – from BBC
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (all three)
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 Orwel
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
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’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 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 Meany - 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 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
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
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
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
11 comments:
My recommendation is to stay away from Atonement and Dracula. I'm only saying that because you made me edit Wicked for you. Also, not all Shakespeare are created equal. Beware.
I was surprised to see how many of these I have read. Thank you, mandatory high school readings. I was thinking of taking on Les Miserables starting in December. We'll see. Good list, though, I might have to start working my way through it as well.
Wow...let me know when you finish number 14!!
26! Plus there were a few I started reading and then just didn't want to finish. I recently got about 100 pages into Watership Down, that's a huge book. It's about 700 pages, and while it's intriguing, the author with describe something about 5 times just so the reader gets the point. It drags a bit. 1984 has an awful, awful part in it. Our high school teacher said, "Just skip pages blah through blah." I love The Little Prince, Jane Austen... there's a bunch.
Animal Farm is a political statement, Lord of the Flies is, too. I loved Jane Eyre, but that's also a very long book.
I've read 20. The problem is, lots of the books on that list are boring! Does that mean I'm uneducated if I think that? :)
Awesome list! I'll start working my way through it too come May 6 - week after graduation! I've read 8 of them and seen 20 of them via movie! I love the BBC versions of many of the classics - that's how I got hooked on reading some of them. Watch for them on PBS. I have a couple on DVD you can borrow as well:)
Wow, that's a big list to tackle! I'm not sure if you've read the Harry Potter's yet, but I loved those. I tried Bridget Jones and couldn't get into it, not to mention, had some bad language. My husband really wants to read 59, his brother read it and loved it. I read the Hobbit and liked it, but could never get into Lord of The Rings, too long and I started to get confused with all the names and lands. I read Lord of Flies in HS and really liked it for some reason. Kind of sad and political, like your friend mentioned. Good luck! Let me know what you recommend! :)
wow, I'm not much of a reader but I have read 8 books on that list! I thought I'd maybe have 1 or 2...most of them were assigned in school but I still read them ;D
I've read/watched 25 of them. I should start trying to read the whole list as well. Right now I'm reading Missouri Brides, it's set in pioneer times. Very good reading.
Oh, I was going to recommend Life of Pi and the Harry Potter series. They were great.
I've read 32. I started the Time Travelers Wife and put it down because the language is AWFUL. That said everyone I know who has finished it LOVED LOVED LOVED it. I am still torn. Let me know if you read it.
That list is really comprehensive and has a lot of variety. I will have to use it when I need something to read.
Also I just read the book The help by Kathryn S (somebody) I would HIGHLY recommend it.
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