100 Books List

I saw this at MotherReader and thought it looked interesting. I've read a lot of books so far in my life and went through a short "great works" phase, so I definitely should have read more than 6 on this list. If you want to see how your reading compares --> Bold those you have read, italicize those you intend to read, and *asterisk* those you love.

1. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen


2. The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien


3. Jane Eyre — Charlotte Bronte


4. Harry Potter series — J.K. Rowling (I've read the 1st 3 in the series)


5. To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee


6. The Bible


7. Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte


8. 1984 — 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. The Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth-Night, The Life of King Henry V, First Part of King Henry VI, Romeo and Juliet, and several sonnets)


15. Rebecca — Daphne Du Maurier


16. The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien


17. Birdsong — Sebastian Faulks


18. *Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger*


19. The Time Traveller’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 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 (I read about half of this and then accidentally left it at the beach)


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. The Chronicles of Narnia — C.S. Lewis


34. Emma — Jane Austen


35. Persuasion — Jane Austen


36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe — C.S. Lewis


37. 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. 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 Meaney — John Irving (I tried to read this and got stuck in the first 30 pages)


45. The Woman in White — Wilkie Collins


46. Anne of Green Gables — L.M. Montgomery


47. 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 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 — Gabriel Garcia Marquez


61. Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck


62. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov


63. The Secret History — Donna Tartt


64. The Lovely Bones — Alice Sebold


65. The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas


66. **On The Road — Jack Kerouac**


67. Jude the Obscure — Thomas Hardy


68. Bridget Jones’ Diary — Helen Fielding


69. Midnight’s Children — Salman Rushdie


70. Moby Dick — Herman Melville (I read part of it for an English lit class)


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 Bell Jar — Sylvia Plath** (this is one of the only books I've ever read more than once)


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 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. White


88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven — Mitch Albom


89. The 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 and the Chocolate Factory — Roald Dahl


100. Les Misérables — Victor Hugo

I'll say I've read 25 since I can't fully count #14 since I haven't read all of Shakespeare. Some of these books I had never heard of - A Town Like Alice? The Wasp Factory? If you interested in other books I have read and enjoyed, visit my Goodreads.com shelves.