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Currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird. I'm off to a slow start with just 5/100 complete, but I'm excited anyway.
That is how I started but now I have completed 42 on the list with The Three Musketeers to be added today. It is a most enjoyable journey.
So I lost my copy of To Kill a Mockingbird so over this weekend I read The Great Gatsby. Can't say that it will make my favorite list. Since Mockingbird is still missing I am starting Life of Pi.
Just finished Life of Pi and it was fantastic. I really enjoyed every bit of it. Now on to The Chronicles of Narnia. 7/100 I feel like I'm making good progress.
Taking a break in the middle of the Chronicles of Narnia. I need to read something else so I am starting Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I'll come back and finish the Chronicles later. 8/10
Finally finished Anna Karenina and I have to be honest it was complete torture. So glad to be moving on to something else. I am starting Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov. 9/100
Lolita was great. Such an incredible change of pace from Anna Karenina. I am reading another book from the Chronicles of Narnia and I will have to pick up another book from the list soon. 10/100
After a long break from the list and after reading many other great books, I'm back to it. I am starting Middlemarch by George Elliot today.
Finally finished Middlemarch. It was a great book with a wonderful, in depth cast of characters. I thoroughly enjoyed it but wow was that a long, weighty book. I will be starting 1984 later today. 11/100
Finished 1984 this morning. Definitely a book that everyone should read at least once, if not more. I will be starting Of Mice and Men this evening. 12/100
Just finished Of Mice and Men. Winnie the Pooh is next. 13/100
Winnie the Pooh was adorable. I had a lot of fun reading it with my youngest. Starting Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I don't know why getting through the Chronicles of Narnia has taken me so long but it's time to get back to it. 14/100
Finally finished the Chronicles of Narnia. I distracted myself with too many other books in the middle of it to do me any good. I will be starting Pride and Prejudice later tonight. 15/100
LOVE, Love, love Pride and Prejudice. I hope that I enjoy the rest of Jane Austen's books as much. For now I am turning my attention to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings! 16/100
Done with The Hobbit. It was a wonderful read and to be honest I had been dreading reading anything to do with The Lord of the Rings. They get so much hype and throw the movies on top of it all and I didn't think I would enjoy it. So different from the movie that it was like reading a different book. On to the trilogy. (17/100)
Just finished Fellowship of the Rings. I am really enjoying this series, I should have read it years ago. The depth of characters is incredible. It makes you fall in love with them without forcing it down your throat. I can't wait to dig deeper as I start The Two Towers.
I just finished The Return of the King. I agree with all your comments. I, too, wonder why I did not read it before.
Just started reading The Time Traveler's Wife. So far I have to say that I'm in love. I wish I could just sit and read it. Unfortunately, life keeps pulling me away. I may have to hide in my room tomorrow!
Just finished The Time Traveler's Wife. I truly enjoyed it. The only problem I had with it was it felt like it was set in the wrong time period. The characters and events didn't feel as modern as they were supposed to be. Oh well, it didn't bother me too much. On to the His Dark Materials series. 18/100
Just finished His Dark Materials Series. The first book was by far the best but I enjoyed most of the series. Makes me a little sad that I only get to mark off one book from the list when I really read three. This list kind of works out to A LOT more than 100. Oh well, I just bought a stack of books from this list at the used book store so the next book is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. 19/100
Thoroughly enjoyed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Now time to finish the Lord of the Rings Series. 20/100
Lord of the Rings Series is finally done. Starting Birdsong. 21/100
Birdsong was a beautiful, amazing, incredible, wonderful book. I will be reading that one again and I rarely do that. I will be starting Wuthering Heights tomorrow morning. 22/100
For a book that makes you dislike all of the characters, Wuthering Heights actually had a very satisfying ending. For a change of pace Bridget Jones's Diary is next. 23/100
Thoroughly enjoyed Bridget Jones's Diary, on to Wind in the Willows. 24/100
Still occasionally reading a page or two of Wind in the Willows but loved reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Will be starting The Catcher in the Rye tomorrow. 25/100
Finished Wind in the Willows and Anne of Green Gables. 27/100
Hi, I’m reading this list too, bit late to the party! Currently reading Moby Dick (mixed feelings 🫤). That’ll be 81/100. Still to go:
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Birdsong- Sebastian Falks
Middlemarch- George Elliot
Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell
Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens
The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
Persuasion - Jane Austin
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Lois de Bernieres
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Atonement- Ian McEwan
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Ulysses - James Joyce
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Holy Bible
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1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee6 The Bible7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger20 Middlemarch – George Eliot21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel52 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 Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On the Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
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
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White88 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
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery (In French)
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo