100 Books Challenge discussion

--- 40/100 so far


01 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
02 Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
03 The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
04 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
05 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
06 Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
07 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
08 Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
09 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
10 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
11 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
12 We the Living by Ayn Rand
13 Anthem by Ayn Rand
14 The Fountainheadby Ayn Rand
15 ANANDAMATH by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
16 Dracula: A Norton Critical Edition by Bram Stoker
17 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
18 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
19 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
20 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
21 The Stand by Stephen King
22 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
23 A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
24 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
25 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
26 The Trial by Franz Kafka
27 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 The Brothers Karmazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
30 A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
31 A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
32 A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
33 A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
34 A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
35 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
36 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
37 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
38 Animal Farm byGeorge Orwell
39 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
40 The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
41 Foundation by Isaac Asimov
42 Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
43 Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
44 The Stranger by Albert Camus
45 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
46 The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
47 The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
48 The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
49 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
50 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
51 Persuasion by Jane Austen
52 Emma by Jane Austen
53 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
54 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
55 The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
56 The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
57 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
58 The Grapes of Wrath by The Grapes of Wrath
59 Blindness by José Saramago
60 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
61 Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
62 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
63 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
64 The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
65 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
66 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
67 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
68 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
69 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
70 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
71 Exodus by Leon Uris
72 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
73 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
74 The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
75 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
76 My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
77 The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
78 The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
79 The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
80 Tess of the d' Urbevilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented by Thomas Hardy
81 Godaan by Munshi Premchand
82 Kafan by Munshi Premchand
83 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
84 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
85 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
86 Matilda by Roald Dahl
87 Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
88 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
89 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
90 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
91 Devdas by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
92 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
93 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
94 A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
95 The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
96 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
97 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
98 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
99 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
100 Life of Pi by Yann Martel

14 done, 86 remain

#45 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
15 done, 85 remain.

16 done, 84 Remain.
#39 To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

17 done, 83 remain.
#49 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

18 done, 82 remain.
#40 The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

19 done, 81 remain.
#65 Kite runner by Khaled Hosseini

20 done, 80 remain.
#31 Clash of kings by G. R. R. Martin

21 done, 79 remain.
#25 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

22 done, 78 remain.
#04 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgees

Wow, you've done quite a few!

3 months back I decided I would not work extra hours, and keep that time for myself. I ended up being busier, lost in books. But I like it better.

Now that the is group active, I think I'll be able to gather enough motivation to revise the list and setup a timeline.

23 done, 77 remain.
#32 A Storm of Swords by G. R. R. Martin

Keep up the good work!

25 done, 75 to go.
#17 The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis.
#66 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.

26 done.
#100 Life of Pi By Yann Martel

There is a film of that out now.

You're really moving along with your list!

Whoa, thats an original list :D

How was clockwork orange..I have heard a lot of different reviews but would really like to read it.

It is so weird and I've never read a book like it before. I'm not sure if you know the plot but it is a bit gruesome at times (I don't mean gory just more like graphic). It is hard to understand at the beginning as the language is unusual, but I think I did enjoy it.

Ok! Maybe I will find a study guide to help me

It's not super difficult. I read it when I was about 14 and didn't have much reading experience so maybe that was why it was difficult.

@Frozenwafle: Thanks, it did take some effort and inspiration from other members of the group to come up with the list.

@Tery-lynn, Nicole: Once you start reading Clockwork Orange, you really get into the language and probably even enjoy it.

I agree Malkesh it is good after you're used to it.

Another one to strike off the list.
#33 A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
27 done.

Yay!!

28 read.
#83 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

39 read so far.
Striking 11 more off the list. 1 more is on the way.


1 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
3 The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
10 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
18 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
21 The Stand by Stephen King
24 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
61 A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
62 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
63 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
64 The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
88 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Great progress! How was A Fine Balance? I've been looking at that one for awhile.

Martha wrote: "Great progress! How was A Fine Balance? I've been looking at that one for awhile."

It was heart-rending emotionally but also truthful in historical context. You might have to read on till the end to get even the slightest hint of titular balance in the story; and still not find it in the picture painted by the author.

02 Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

40 done.