A New Book List

Miranda over at My 101 Things to Do Before I Die posted this list of books.  She found it on Facebook and I like it a lot, mostly because these are books I think I’d be interested in reading!

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

So that is 47 for me (as of December 2010).  How many have you read?