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Old 09-28-2009, 04:02 PM   #111
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Here is my list. I don't think it will grow, as my reading tastes have changed to more popular stuff.

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 -- YES
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger


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 -

26 Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - - - - - - -

28 Grapes of Wrath YES
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 -



37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein -

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 -

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
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
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

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -


67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -


71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

75 Ulysses - James Joyce


76 The Inferno - Dante -

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -



81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -


87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams-
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

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

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I think I counted 63. But I only remember a handful - most were read in high school and college. Kind of a strange list - Bridget Jones's Diary?
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