Books

I lifted this of a cousin's blog.

The average adult has read only 6 out of 100 of the following books! I have managed the bolded titles.


1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (read it, loved it)

2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (only the first, good books but not my genre)

5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (HS read, loved it)

6. The Bible (parts)

7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (HS read, loved it, very dark)

8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (since I used to teach this novel I have read it many times, and I loved it every time)

11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (pretty good)

12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (Read in HS and College, loved it both times)

13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14. Complete work of Shakespeare (I have read the majority of this plays, her certainly knows human nature)

15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (HS read, loved it)

19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (This is one my favorite all time books)

20. Middlemarch - George Eliot

21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (hated the movie, so no interest)

22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (Used to teach it, one of my favorites)

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 (HATED this book; couldn't even finish)

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 Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (This is a great book for it's perspective)

37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

40. Animal Farm - George Orwell (high school read,OK)

41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Could not put it down)

42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

47. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (one of the great books)

49. Atonement - Ian McEwan

50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel (not a fan)

51. Dune - Frank Herbert

52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (this is also excellent for its perspective)

59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (Great book)

61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt (This was an odd story but I could not stop reading it.)

63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (excellent)

64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (one of my favorite; great book)

65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac

66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (HS read, loved it)

67. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fiedling

68. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdi

69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

71. Dracula - Bram Stoker

72. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

74. Ulysses - James Joyce

75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

77. Germinal - Emile Zola

78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (movie sucked, so no interest)

79. Possession - AS Byatt

80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker

83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

86. Charlotte’s Web - EB White

87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (very simple, but a good message)

88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (HS read, OK)

91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (HS read in French, good book)

92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

93. Watership Down - Richard Adams

94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

(The last two were missing, so I made some up)

99. Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

100. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (A classic)