1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – I haven’t read it. I’ve mean meaning to, and have a lovely copy on my bookshelf waiting for the right rainy afternoon.
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien – Yes, but I preferred The Hobbit.
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte – Loved it! And have re-read it at least twice.
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling – No. I’ve avoided the whole Harry Potter craze (although I’ve seen one of the movie in dutch)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee – Yes, wonderful book.
6 The Bible – No. No interest
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte – Yes.
8 1984 – George Orwell – Yes. Classic book- definitely one for everyone. (and a book that comes up in my daily conversations as a reference point for life)
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman – Yes- I actually read them as they came out.
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens – No.
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott – One of my favourites when I was little. I just re-read it as one of my backpacking books whilst in Costa Rica.
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy – I found a copy at an English bookshop when I was living in Slovakia and started it, but never managed to finish it.
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller – Yes. Another classic must read.
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – Has anyone really read the COMPLETE works? I’ve read Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Eve, Hamlet, Othello and probably more
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier – Yes. Lovely dark romance.
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien – Much MUCH better than the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks – No, I’ve not actually heard of it
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger – Yes, while I was a teenager- a very apt book at the time.
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger – I have. I always have existential problems with time travel stories- as I overthink them and manage to rip them apart. This one was no exception, which detracted from the actual story.
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot- No.
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell – I’m actually reading it at the moment. It’s very very long. I’m only a couple pages in, so no opinion as of yet.
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald – Strangely no, I’ve always meant to but never seem to get around to it
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens- No.
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy – No.
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams – Yes, only the first 4 books though. Wonderful wonderful book! I kind of want to reread it now.
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh – No – but I wrote a paper on his The Loved Ones and it was brilliant!
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky – No.
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – No. I’ve read through the Looking Glass, but never Alice in Wonderland. I really really want to.
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame – No.
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy – Another one I’ve started and not finished.
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens – No.
33 The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis – The first couple- up to the Silver Chair I believe.
34 Emma – Jane Austen – Yes- lovely book.
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen – No.
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – Is this not one of the Chronicles of Narnia?
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini – No, however I just finished another book by him called A Thousand Splendid Suns, which was really really good.
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres- No. However Señor Caracol LOVED the book, and quotes it constantly
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden – No, the movie was pretty good though
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne – No
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell -Yes. What self-respecting vegetarian HASN’T read animal farm?
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown – No. Never- I HATE over-hyped books
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez – No, but I have plans for this one to
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving – No
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins – No
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery – All time favourite book. I read the first 3 about a dozen time when I was younger. And plan to travel to PEI simply to satisfy my girlhood love of Anne
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy – No
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood – Yes. More than once- it’s one of those books I pass around to people. I’ve read a couple other books of hers as well, including Oryx and Crake, which a very different style to The Handmaid’s Tale, but brilliant
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding – Unfortunately for English freshman year of high school. At the time we had a student teacher obsessed with phallic symbolism, which put a really disturbing twist on the whole thing.
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan – No.
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel – Yes. I found a copy at a book exchange in Montezuma. It was very entertaining.
52 Dune – Frank Herbert- Yes. Señor Caracol’s all time favourite book. If I hadn’t read it I wouldn’t hear the end of it. It was an interesting concept, interesting world- but none of the primary characters were likeable.
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons – No
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – No.
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth – No
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon – No
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens – No.
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley – No
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon – No.
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez – No.
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck – Yes, however I’m not a huge Steinbeck fan and wouldn’t recommend it.
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov – Yes- it was surprisingly good. From that same English bookstore in Bratislava (I think I spent most of my wages there)
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt – No
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold – No.
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas – One day.
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac – No. Another one of those hyped books.
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy – No
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding – No, no interest
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie – I’ve been meaning to
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville – No
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens – I don’t think so
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker – Yes. Finally a yes!
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett – Yes, when I was very very young
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson – Yes
75 Ulysses – James Joyce – No
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath – Yes- this was my go to book in high school. I wasn’t depressed or suicidial or anything, but I related very heavily to it.
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome – No
78 Germinal – Emile Zola – No
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray – No
80 Possession – AS Byatt- No
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens – Yes, a couple of times. And seen the play a couple of times. A classic
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell – No
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker -No
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro – No
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert – Yes. I don’t think I liked it. It was another high school English assignment
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry – No
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White – Yes. Adorable book, very sad though.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom – Yes- it was this ‘book pact’ thing I had with this guy I was seeing. He wanted to come up with something to discuss over a summer we were apart— it wasn’t good.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – No
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton – No
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad – Yes. I really didn’t like this one either.
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupe – LOVE IT! This book is brilliant. I’ve actually read it in three languages as well: French (the first time), English and Spanish. Wonderful wonderful wondeful book.
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks – No
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams – Yes. Just a couple of years ago and it was beautiful. Señor Caracol and I read it to each other and I saw the animated film, which was crazy
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole – No
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute – No
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas – In the middle of it.
98 Hamlet – Shakespeare – Is this not included in the COMPLETE works of Shakespeare? Something is wrong with this list.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl – I don’t think so.
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo – Thinking about it
Fairy Tales
The Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield