Top 100 books to read

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Sarahr73
Sarahr73 Posts: 454 Member
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I got this from a friend's facebook page and thought I would share since there seem to be so many readers on here....

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles ****ens

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 Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

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

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 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 ****ens

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 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

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM 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 ****ens

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 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 **** - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles ****ens

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 ****ens

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 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 Miserables - Victor Hugo

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  • jcpeters13
    jcpeters13 Posts: 19 Member
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    Is anyone else amused that Charles Di ckens's name is censored?
  • bizco
    bizco Posts: 1,949 Member
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    How did he come up with this list? His own? Some other source? Just curious.
  • cawood2
    cawood2 Posts: 177 Member
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    hehehe never seen him censored before...
  • bobby100m
    bobby100m Posts: 1
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    great selection.....thanks.
  • Sarahr73
    Sarahr73 Posts: 454 Member
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    How did he come up with this list? His own? Some other source? Just curious.

    The woman's page I got it from is a teacher, so I would assume it may be some high school reading list of some sort. Just a guess though.
  • sarahazelnut99
    sarahazelnut99 Posts: 307 Member
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    Is anyone else amused that Charles Di ckens's name is censored?
    LOL MFP would.
  • Sarahr73
    Sarahr73 Posts: 454 Member
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    Is anyone else amused that Charles Di ckens's name is censored?

    Ha! That's funny. It wasn't like that on facebook, it must be an auto censor or something on MFP.
  • sarahazelnut99
    sarahazelnut99 Posts: 307 Member
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    Handmaids tail by Margarete Atwood
    anything... by kurt Vonnegut
    the bell jar by sylvia plath (its basically her just *****ing the whole time but i think its important because she had so much potential as a women)

    lol there now its 103
  • ajk828
    ajk828 Posts: 335
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    Is anyone else amused that Charles Di ckens's name is censored?

    :laugh: COMPLETELY amused!
  • ninyagwa
    ninyagwa Posts: 341 Member
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    I giggled every time it was censored...I also noticed that I have only read 14 of the 100 books....I guess I'm behind...
  • Tamstar1985
    Tamstar1985 Posts: 334 Member
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    i am such a fan of this list! i have read 85 of the books on it <3 i had a mission to complete it, but it is really hard to get good books in china, so i changed my goal to reading all the chinese classics instead ^_^ in the original chinese, of course, to add to the challenge...

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