100 books to read?

So here is a a pretty reasonable list of books to read before I die, I mean skimming through I have read a number of them, I have thought sincerely about reading a few more (hey I grew up being told it's the thought that counts :P)

Let's see just how many I have read (and no mom I am not interested to know that you have read like 95 of them, you are older than me and that's my excuse)



1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
I started reading it, then I started reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I have finished neither. I did see the 6 hour version which I think should count for something


2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
I totally read this one! The whole trilogy.


3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Nope, haven't even touched it

4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
Ya'll know I read it. Every time book, and I threw a few of them across the room for good measure


5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
One of my favorite books actually. I wish I knew Atticus in real life.


6 The Bible

I have read some of it, I have several times considered doing a straight read through, you are allowed to skip over all the people begetting other people right?


7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Nope...no Bronte. I am saving Bronte and Austen for my 30's? That is my new excuse.


8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
Read it, of course I have read it. Also I think most people who talk about it haven't. Which is a damn shame.


9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
We own it, Skull read it, I haven't yet...


10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Nope, haven't read it, haven't ever really thought about reading it. I probably should though.


11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
Haven't read it. We are throwing this in with Austen and Bronte. 30's


12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
NO. NO. And I refuse to. My 11th grade English teacher thinks I read it and that is close enough, I aced that final essay.

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Read it, 1.5 times actually. I got half way through the first time and then finished it the second time.


14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
I have read many works of Shakespeare, not everything though.


15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
"REBECCA!!"- Catbug         Never even heard of it.


16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
Read it! It was very good. Working on getting Niko to a point where we can read it to her at night. Her attention span isn't quite long enough yet.


17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
uhm Nope, never head of it


18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
Haahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Yes. I have read it. I have read pretty much all there is to read by Salinger. Nine Stories is better.


19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Nope, can I just watch the movie for this one?


20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
Haven't gotten around to wanting to read this one yet


21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
I started reading it, and you know what? I am just never going to read this book again. It is boring and just a damn romance novel. So NO.


22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
Nope


23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Can we get some Dickens on this list that I have read?


24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
I checked it out of the library once


25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Read it! Whoooo, I was starting to feel bad there for a while.


27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Listen, I am just really not into Russian literature.


28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
I haven't read it, but I have considered reading it


29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
This one I got! I have read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.


30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Haven't read this either


31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
See above note about Russian Literature (No, Anna, I don't care. You only like it because they spelled her name the right way)


32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." Again, I have thought about it but not read it.


33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

I read half of them. Voyage of the Dawn Treader happened and I couldn't keep going.


34 Emma – Jane Austen
Goddamnit Jane Austen I told you! 30's!


35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
30's!!!!


36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
Didn't we cover this already?


37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Nope, never read it


38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
If someone can recommend it I will read it, doesn't sound that good.


39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
I looked at it in a bookshop once.


40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
Read at least several Winnie the Pooh stories as a kid.


41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
Read it! Yay something I read!


42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

Did not read this book. Don't really care about the Illuminati or whatever
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I should read this one, I remember my 9th grade Spanish teacher telling us about it


44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
Never heard of this one, being honest.


45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
This one either


46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
I am half way through this book, I put it down somewhere......


47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy we meet again. Maybe after I forgive you for Tess...


48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
I think I own this somewhere


49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
I am apparently the only person ever who didn't have to read this in school


50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
What?


51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
I saw the movie and I am pretty sure the book is better, will get around to this one soon.


52 Dune – Frank Herbert
Anna read it enough that I don't have to.


53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Cold is not comfortable, what kind of farm is this?


54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Jane Austen! Leave me alone. I have you on my kindle, it will happen eventually.


55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
This guys name seems backwards, no I haven't read it


56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Nope


57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Ha! See some Dickens I have read. It was alright. Bunch of people who didn't have their own language, just a stupid accent. Let's end this meeting on a high note...


58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
I have heard of this one, I think I will probably read it eventually


59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
What? No I didn't read this.


60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love and Cholera do not mix


61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Read it and loved it. I cry every time


62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
I will read this eventually.


63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Her last name is Tartt. hehehe wonder what her secret history is.


64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
The bones were very lovely (didn't read it either)


65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
This one is also on my kindle waiting to be read


66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
The code will be "on the road..yea" Read it..on the road.


67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
NO Thomas Hardy.


68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
I don't think I can read this because I saw the movie and I am just going to be seeing Renee Zellweger the whole time


69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Again never head of it


70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Read it, I think it was an abridged version though


71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Please sir, may I have some more? Never actually read it.


72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
It's on the list of things to read


73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Read it. Might as well just watch the movie.


74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
Obviously not a deserted island though...


75 Ulysses – James Joyce
Not a work by James Joyce I have read


76 The Inferno – Dante
The Divine Comedy would be better suited for this list.Do it right. I have read some of The Inferno, but not all of it.


77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
That sounds like a porno


78 Germinal – Emile Zola
Nope


79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Nope


80 Possession – AS Byatt
Nope


81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Read this one a few times.


82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Didn't hear of this until the movie came out


83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Wasn't Oprah in the movie? Never read the book


84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Nope

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Nope, but I think I will eventually


86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Not this one either


87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
I have read this one, I still don't like spiders, sorry Charlotte


88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
Heard of this one, never read it


89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I have read a few Sherlock Holmes stories but no where near all of them. I own it though.


90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
Nope (only 10 more!)


91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Not this one


92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I own it, read a bit of it


93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
That sounds terrible


94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
Haven't actually read it


95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Nope, sounds a bit dim....


96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Is Alice the name of a town that they want their town to be more like...or does someone want a town to be like a person?


97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
I have read like the first chapter? It is also on my kindle


98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
I did read it, this seems like cheating since Shakespeare was already listed


99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Not one that I have read actually. Shockingly.


100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Uh, I saw the non musical movie adaption. I will get around to it



Typical, no Vonnegut or Pratchett, only Kerouac is On the Road and the only Salinger is Catcher in the Rye and way too much Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy.


Come back.....Wednesday when I present MY list of 100 books that people should read.