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Old 07-23-2011, 03:22 AM   #147
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I've finished 29, some I've read the children's (shorter) version and some I've never finished or I'm still reading (complete works of Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes. Of those that I haven't read a lot are on my TBR pile.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - YES
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - YES
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - YES
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - YES
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
TOTAL SO FAR: 4

6 The Bible --
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - YES
8 1984 - George Orwell -
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - YES
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -
TOTAL SO FAR: 6

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - PARTIALLY
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
TOTAL SO FAR: 6

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien YES
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger YES
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
TOTAL SO FAR: 8

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -- YES
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - YES
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - YES
TOTAL SO FAR:11

26 Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - - - - - - -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky-
28 Grapes of Wrath
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - YES
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - KID'S VERSION
TOTAL SO FAR: 12

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -
34 Emma - Jane Austen - YES
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
TOTAL SO FAR: 13

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
TOTAL SO FAR: 13

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - YES
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving -
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 15

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 - YES
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -
TOTAL SO FAR: 16

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - YES
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
TOTAL SO FAR: 17

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - YES
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - KID'S VERSION
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -YES
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon -
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
TOTAL SO FAR: 19

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - YES
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
TOTAL SO FAR: 20

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - PARTIALLY
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -YES
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -PARTIALLY
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
TOTAL SO FAR: 21

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - PARTIALLY
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -PARTIALLY
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -YES
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -YES
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
TOTAL SO FAR: 23

76 The Inferno - Dante -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - YES
80 Possession - AS Byatt -
TOTAL SO FAR: 24

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - YES
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - YES
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -PARTIALLY
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
TOTAL SO FAR: 26

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 -PARTIALLY
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
TOTAL SO FAR: 26

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - YES
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams- KID'S VERSION
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
TOTAL SO FAR: 27

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - YES
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - YES
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
TOTAL SO FAR: 29
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