100 books to read before you die discussion

# 1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
# 2 The Lord of the Rings
# 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
# 4 Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling (all)
# 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
# 6 The Bible
# 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
# 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
# 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
# 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
# 11 Little Women - Louisa May 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 Tolkien
# 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
# 18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
# 19 The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
# 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
# 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
# 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
# 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
# 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
# 25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
# 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
# 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
# 28 The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
# 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
# 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
# 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
# 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
# 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
# 34 Emma – Jane Austen
# 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
# 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
# 37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
# 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
# 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
# 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
# 41 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 Meany – John Irving
# 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
# 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
# 47 Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
# 48 The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
# 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
# 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
# 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 Huxley
# 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
# 60 Love in the Time of Cholera
# 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
# 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
# 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
# 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
# 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
# 66 On the Road - Jack Kerouac
# 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
# 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
# 69 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
# 74 Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
# 75 Ulysses - James Joyce
# 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
# 77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
# 78 Germinal – Emile Zola
# 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
# 80 Possession - A. S. Byatt
# 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
# 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
# 83 The Colour 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 - EB White
# 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
# 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupery
# 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 & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
# 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Recently I finished reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and am currently reading A Christmas Carol by the same author. Also, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.