- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all)To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee- The Bible
Wuthering Heights- 1984– George Orwell
- His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
- Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
- The Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
- Anna Karenina –Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis- Emma – Jane Austen
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Willaim Golden
- Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery- Far from the Madding Crowd _ Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies – William Golding- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi - Yann Martell
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon- Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson- Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Bell Jar - Sylivia Plath
- Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
- Germinal – Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession - AS Byatt
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas - Charles Mitchell
- The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte's Web - EB White- The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Faraway Tree collection - Enid blyton
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
- The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet – William Shakespeare- Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
My goal for the new year is to read this list. Join me?
I'll take you up on this challenge. It's funny because I was just talking with someone yesterday about Brave New World and Atlas Shrugged. Neither of which I have read but both I should.
ReplyDeleteAs I read the list, I actually felt disappointed in myself for not having read a large amount, though I've heard of them.
ReplyDeleteThere are some that I wholeheartedly disagree with being on that list, such as Bridget Jones Diary. Many of those I've read because high school and college forced me to. And although part of it is some self-snobby sense of 'yay me, I'm cultured!' honestly, a lot of them are absolutely fantastic. For example, A Confederacy of Dunces.
ReplyDeleteGoing to a Catholic Seminary High School for 3 years got me through "The Bible" otherwise I would have never attempted it.
If you want to see which one's I've already managed to get through, I started a list and I plan on updating it as I make an attempt-
http://oldsmash.blogspot.com/
Oh and thanks for this. Very entertaining conversation topic!!!!!