Brigid Delaney at The Guardian Australia got herself in quite a tizz about it all. I can't imagine that anyone really does imagine that this is the new canon. And what if someone did read all of these? Well, they'd have read a 100 books that they hadn't read before. I for one think that that would be a good thing. Although I do think we could leave 50 Shades of Grey off any list whatsoever.
1. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
3. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
4. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
5. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
6. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
7. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
8. The Potato Factory - Bryce Courtenay
9. The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
10. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
11. Still Alice - Lisa Genova (see my review)
12. The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
13. Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
14. Fifty Shades of Grey - E.L. James
15. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
16. The Lavender Keeper - Fiona McIntosh
17. The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion (see my review)
18. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
19. The Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman
20. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
21. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
22. The Secret River - Kate Grenville
23. Personal - Lee Child
24. The Winter Sea - Di Morrissey
25. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
26. Life or Death - Michael Robotham
27. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins (see my review)
28. Shantaram - Gregory Roberts
29. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
30. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (see my review)
31. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
32. Hello from the Gillespies - Monica McInerney
33. Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
34. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
35. Hope to Die - James Patterson
36. Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
37. Little Women - Louise May Alcott
38. A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
39. Breath - Tim Winton
40. The Great Zoo of China - Matthew Reilly
41. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
42. 1984 - George Orwell
43. Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
44. The Woman Who Stole My Life - Marian Keyes
45. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
46. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
47. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
48. Dirt Music - Tim Winton
49. Nightingale - Fiona McIntosh
50. Me Before You - Jo Jo Moyes
51. The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
52. Only Time Will Tell - Jeffrey Archer
53. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
54. Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
55. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
56. Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty
57. Magician - Raymond E. Feist
58. It Started With Paris - Cathy Kelly
59. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
60. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas (see my review)
61. We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
62. I Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
63. Inferno - Dan Brown
64. Chocolat - Joanne Harris
65. Lost & Found - Brooke Davies (see my review)
66. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
67. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
68. The Street Sweeper - Elliot Perlman
69. The Tournament - Matthew Reilly
70. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
71. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
72. All That I Am - Anna Funder
73. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
74. Barra Creek - Di Morrissey
75. Cleanskin Cowgirls - Rachael Treasure
76. Elianne - Judy Nunn
77. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
78. Leap of Faith - Fiona McCallum
79. The Road To Hope - Rachael Johns
80. The Burning Room - Michael Connelly
81. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
82. Desert God - Wilbur Smith
83. The Great Plains - Nicole Alexander
84. The Forever Girl - Alexander McCall Smith
85. It - Stephen King
86. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
87. The Harp In The South - Ruth Park
88. My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
89. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
90. The Collector - Nora Roberts
91. One Day - David Nicholls
92. The Escape - David Baldacci
93. Before I Go To Sleep - S.J. Watson
94. The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul - Deborah Rodriguez
95. The Daughters of Mars - Tom Keneally
96. The Shifting Fog - Kate Morton
97. Shopaholic To The Stars - Sophie Kinsella
98. Dark Heart - Tony Park
99. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
100. Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
22/100
Many of these books are lurking in my TBR. Exactly when they'll get read who can tell? At least there's always something else to read.
1 comment:
Well, Life or Death is now a Gold Dagger award winning crime book for Robottom - beating JK Rowling (AKA Galbraith) and Stephen King.
I've actually read quite a few of these books & have to say that The Power of One is the only Courtenay I've ever managed to finish (& enjoy).
I'm glad Year of Wonders managed to scrape onto the list, but I could have done without the Picoult's (& like you) Fifty Shades of Puke! Both of which, I skim read - one for a book club and one for work. And don't get me started on Eat Prey Love.
Oscar and Lucinda is a surprise - not one of Carey's more accessible books. I enjoyed his Ned Kelly one more (but I know a lot of people hated it!)
And all the crime fiction simply reflects what most people read and what we sell most of (usually) each month at work.
Very interesting....
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