I Heart Books!

I found this list online a while ago and thought I would take a crack at it.  Plus, I love having an excuse to read.  

I only counted books I have read in their entirety in my tally, so I guess I shouldn't feel that bad. 


 My number is 25 books--I have started a couple of these already and now I guess I must go back and finish.

100 books to read before you die.
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
3. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
4. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
 The Bible
 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
5. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
 Complete Works of Shakespeare
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
6. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
7. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
8. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch – George Eliot
 Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
9. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
10. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
11. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy -
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
Emma – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
12. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
13. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne –
14. Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
15. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Atonement – Ian McEwan
 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
 Dune – Frank Herbert
 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
16. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
17. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
18. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
19. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
20.  Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
 Ulysses – James Joyce
21. The Inferno – Dante
Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
 Germinal – Emile Zola
 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
 Possession – AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
22. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
23. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom –
 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
24. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Watership Down – Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
25. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo