Thread: Seriousness Have you read 6 of those 100?
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Old 09-25-2009, 07:15 PM   #48
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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - YES
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - YES
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - YES
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
TOTAL SO FAR: 3

6 The Bible --
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
8 1984 - George Orwell - YES
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - YES
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -
TOTAL SO FAR: 5

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 -
TOTAL SO FAR: 5

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
TOTAL SO FAR: 5

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 - currently reading it
TOTAL SO FAR: 5

26 Tess Of The D'Urbervilles -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky-
28 Grapes of Wrath
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
TOTAL SO FAR: 5

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - YES
34 Emma - Jane Austen - YES
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 8

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - YES
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: 9

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 - Already started
TOTAL SO FAR: 10

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 -
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -
TOTAL SO FAR: 10

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -YES
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - YES
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
TOTAL SO FAR: 12

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 - Mark Haddon - YES
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
TOTAL SO FAR: 13

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - YES
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 15

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - YES
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - YES
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
TOTAL SO FAR: 17

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - YES
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
TOTAL SO FAR: 18

76 The Inferno - Dante -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
80 Possession - AS Byatt -
TOTAL SO FAR: 18

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 -YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 19

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 -YES
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
TOTAL SO FAR: 20

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams-
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
TOTAL SO FAR: 20

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -YES
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - YES
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
TOTAL SO FAR: 22

22 then...
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Why are some titles here several time (Tess, 1rst of Narnia...) ?
And 4 or 5 are are in my TBR list already.

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