100 Books AKA bardlover6 is a big NERD
This list of 100 books was published by the National Endowment for the Arts for the "Big Read" program. Copy it (I'd suggest into a Word or other text file first) and post it at your LJ, marked as follows:
Ones you’ve read in bold.
Ones you intend to read in italics.
Ones you loved underlined.
Ones for which you’ve seen one or more movie or TV adaptations in [brackets]. (Some sites include this. I’m not sure how it’s relevant, but what the heck.)
[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 Dickens
[11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott]
[12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
[14 Complete Works of Shakespeare] HELL YES! (points to username)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD 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
[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 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 - AA 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 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 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 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 Bryson
75 Ulysses - James
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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 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 - EB 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
Comments: Can you tell I'm an English major? I love classics, and you probably notice that I've read every Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, and Alexandre Dumas on the list. I'm secure & happy in my nerdiness.
Atonement? If you haven't read anything by Ian McEwan, pick up one of his books. Amsterdam is a gem of a novel and quite short if you're looking at starting on him. Dark novels with twist endings--a bit like Thomas Hardy actually.