Top 100 Books

I got this off of Sara's blog. Her blog says that The National Endowment for the Arts estimated that the average adult has read only six of the books listed below. I glanced through the list and think that I have read more than six. Some I have read this year. Let's see how I do... Okay, I have read 23 (which is way more than six. lol.). I have seen 26. And I intend to read 11 of them. I thought it was strange that they had both The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I guess some people only get through book one. I really liked the whole series. Next time I read them I am going to read them in the order they were intended too be read in. Some of the ones I intend to read are ones I have read but am going to read again, like The Chronicles of Narnia and the whole Harry Potter series (that one I am going to read after I read the Twilight series, which I am going to read this month).

1. Bold -- have read
2. Italicize -- intend to read
3. [Bracket] -- viewed via movie, TV or theatre

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
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 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
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
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 Miserables - Victor Hugo]