There's a few exceptions of course. I can't imagine that I'll ever try to read Ulysses in this lifetime. I might give an audio version a go at some stage, as I can listen to things that I'd never be able to read. I'm currently a third of the way through the Moby Dick Big Read which is way further than I thought I would ever manage to do.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1984 - George Orwell
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Catch- 22 - Joseph Heller
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (see my review)
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Ulysses - James Joyce
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (see my review)
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (see my review)
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Middlemarch - George Eliot
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (see my review)
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Moby Dick - Herman Melville (I did it! My review of the first half)
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Secret History - Donna Tart
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (currently reading)
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| I'm going to read Les Mis in 2018! |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (see my review)
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Emma - Jane Austen
Dune - Frank Herbert
Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
Watership Down - Richard Adams (see my review)
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (see my review)
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
A Town Like Alice - Nevile Shute
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (see my review)
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis (2.5/7)
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (see my review)
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Call of the Wild - Jack London (see my review)
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Inferno - Dante
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
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| I'm rather toying with the notion of this one, a new annotated version |
45/100 (I've included books that I gave a good crack, but may not have finished for whatever reason in pink)
1 comment:
I've read and finished 42 of them, and had a go at about ten others. More if you count His Dark Materials and Narnia, which are, after all, series. Interesting!
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