You see I am an avid reader. I am an obsessive reader. I am a reading fiend..a junkie...an addict...a reading enthusiast. Okay, okay I'm done because I'm sure you get the picture. So naturally when I saw this awesome thing that Lindsey over at Dishwater Dreams was doing I couldn't resist joining her. This is actually something I have thought of doing before, but never got around to doing! What is this amazing challenge that I am write it on my trapper keeper in love with, you may ask? Reading through this list of the 100 greatest novels! What else? Want to join in, then you can by clicking this lovely little button right down there!
The ones with the little star thingies beside them are books I have already read or have started and have not finished. I intend to read them over again, and like Lindsey I intend to review them on this blog when I am finished. Wish me luck!
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
4. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen *
6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
10. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
11. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte *
12. Animal Farm by George Orwell
13. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
14. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck *
15. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
16. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
17. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
18. Ulysses by James Joyce
19. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte *
20. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
21. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
22. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens *
23. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens *
24. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
25. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain *
26. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
27. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo *
28. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
29. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell *
30. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
31. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien *
32. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
33. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
34. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
35. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess *
36. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
37. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
38. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
39. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
40. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley *
41. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey *
43. The Stranger by Albert Camus
44. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
45. Moby Dick by Herman Melville *
46. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown *
47. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
48. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway *
49. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
50. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
51. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
52. Watership Down by Richard Adams
53. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
54. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
55. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
56. His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
57. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
58. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
59. Middlemarch by George Eliot
60. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
61. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
62. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott *
63. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
64. The Stand by Stephen King
65. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
66. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
67. Dracula by Bram Stoker *
68. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky *
69. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
70. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
71. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
72. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
73. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
74. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath *
75. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
76. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
77. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
78. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
79. Dune by Frank Herbert
80. The Trial by Franz Kafka
81. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
82. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
83. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
84. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
85. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
86. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
88. Persuasion by Jane Austen *
89. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
90. Atonement by Ian McEwan
91. Emma by Jane Austen *
92. Beloved by Toni Morrison
93. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
94. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
95. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
96. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
97. Light in August by William Faulkner
98. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
99. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
100. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne *
29 comments:
Great list :) Makes me want to hit up the library!
Love to see how you progress on the list and your opinions on each of the books. As Lojo says pretty much all of these books are going to be available at the public library!
What a great list! I have read a bunch of those before but it's been years. You've made me want to go reread a few myself!
I'm stopping in from the SITS 31DBBB. Have a great weekend!
I am so glad you decided to participate in the challenge!
I've read
1984
Lolita
Animal Farm
Brave New World
Great Expectations
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Clockwork Orange (actually not that good, the movie is better)
Fahrenheit 451
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ender's Game
The Time Traveler's Wife (I swear, this is my absolute favorite book, but you remember how bad the movie was lol)
Of Human Bondage
I should join you! I read some of the books listed, but I never find time to read anymore :(
I have read
1984 by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (one of my favorites read probably 10 times)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne *
I think I'll start with Lolita. I've always wanted to read it, but have never acted on that want. Thanks for the idea to check the library Anna and Lojo, I haven't been in years, and I probably wouldn't have thought to check there.
Kristy, thanks for giving me like 10 or more of the books on this list the last time you cleaned your book shelf off! I love you! (=
Julie and Karine, I would be so happy if you two joined in with Lindsey as well! It would be so great to see what the three of you thought about the books as well!
Lindsey, thank you so much for starting this great challenge! I'm very excited about it!
I'm SO in on this. I can't wait. I've been reading the Twilight series and will be finished this weekend. I read them in this order: 2, 3, 4, 1. I'm just backwards in general, so it was appropriate. I'm also going to check out the blog you recommended. Great title! Can't wait to read your book reviews. Wouldn't it be fun to do a little bloggy book club? :) Wonder if we could coordinate that or if it would just be too hard.
This is actually the greatest novels ever published according to BBC, and completing this list is on my bucket list! A worthy pursuit if I ever saw one
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