Tuesday, March 3

I could help myself...

I found this one on Facebook and I am doing it here. I want to know if you have read them also, so tell me tell me tell me! A star means I read it and I can't resist adding notes.

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* (perhaps one of my favorites)
6 The Bible *
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte * (My real favorite of all time)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman * (favorite children's books)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens * (I am not a huge Dickens fan. I have been told it takes age to appreciate him. I hope this doesn't offend you.)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott *
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy * (My first Hardy and I fell in love!)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare * (okay I'm working on it. I have two copies!)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier * (thanks for recommending this one Mindy! I love it! And My Cousin Rachel isn't too bad either.)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien *
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot * (I was madly in love with George Eliot until I found out that he was a girl)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald * (I want to be someone's Daisy)
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 * (HATED!)
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* (Second all time favorite! BEST love letter ever written is found in this one.)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis * (I wonder why this is on here twice...But not to mess up the numbers!)
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 * (I must have read this series a million times as a child. So good!)
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 * (This one is incredible! Read it, but promise not to get offended at a couple things. The message is way too good for anyone to pass up.)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel * (Made me love tigers. And I love that he joins 3 or 4 religions.)
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 * (Weird, creepy, avoid.)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas * (I love him. But I love the movie ending better.)
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* (Can you say nightmares for weeks? Never underestimate the power behind old scary stories.)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett * (I still to this day want to go live there.)
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 * (Very fun! I tad bit long, but very good morals to be found.)
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 Alborn*
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* (Okay so I lied. This is the best book ever written, hands down. Sorry, it even beats Wuthering Heights, which is VERY hard to do.)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams*
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy O'Toole*
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas * (Like I said, Dumas was my lover in another life.)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare *
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl *
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *

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