I picked up this list from
Sarah at Reading, Writing and Musing. Here's how it works.
Look at the list, and:
Bold those you have read.
Italicize those you intend to read.
Underline the books you LOVE.
1.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee6. 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 M Alcott12. 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 Faulks18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19.
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21.
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell22. 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 Adams26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28.
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck29. 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 Lewis34.
Emma - Jane Austen35.
Persuasion - Jane Austen36.
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (I have tried, I really have)
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39.
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden40.
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42.
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (again, I tried)
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 Atwood49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50.
Atonement - Ian McEwan51.
Life of Pi - Yann Martel52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53.
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons54.
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen55. 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 Huxley59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60.
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62.
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov63.
Secret History - Donna Tartt64.
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68.
Jones' 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 Bryson75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76.
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80.
Possession - AS Byatt81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83.
The Color Purple - Alice Walker84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87.
Charlotte's Web - EB 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 Conrad92.The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93.
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96.
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100.
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo