Thread: Seriousness Have you read 6 of those 100?
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Old 09-25-2009, 01:55 PM   #31
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I too wonder about this list. it seems I have filled out many other lists and found myself sadly lacking... I've left in the ones I've read.

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 -


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


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


16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien




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





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 -




36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -

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 -



46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -yes



52 Dune - Frank Herbert

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -



57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -



61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -


65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -


66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -


71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -

75 Ulysses - James Joyce -


76 The Inferno - Dante -


79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -



81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -


85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -



87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -YES




94 Watership Down - Richard Adams-




97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare -

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -


so I have 58.

and I have to say.... wtf!? Bridget Jones Diary? it must be a MUCH better book than movie! (cute movie, just not something I would expect to be counted as a literary great)
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