Jul 18, 2008 01:10
Rather than make people slog through a 100-book long list, I'm just going to delete everything I haven't read. I've only read about 1/3 of the Bible, and who the hell has read every single play and sonnet ever written by Shakespeare? I've read a LOT of Shakespeare, but c'mon. I think even the most ardent Shakespeare scholars would admit that not every play he wrote is a good one. Am I less for having not read "Timon of Athens"? No.
Sadly, I'll still remove them from the list, as I'm only listing stuff I finished. :(
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl