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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (One of the most important books on my University Reading List I remember)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (LOVED it before even the films were made.....I hate the boring parts though, these descriptions of Elven families or of the wars)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (another one from my university reading list)
4 Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling (infected my best friend and my daughter with it)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (reading list again....)
6 The Bible (went to school led by nuns...no wonder, huh?)
7 WutheringHeights - Emily Bronte (reading list...it is boring though)
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell ( I think we read that at school already, but if not I read it at university...yes, reading list again)
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 (reading list.....no wait, we did that at school!)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I studied English, you know....any more questions? not reading Shakespeare when you study English is like not reading Goethe when you study German (what I did too..)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (school already.....I liked the book, but today I connect it with John's death...which means that I still read it, but there is a bit of a bittersweet feeling behind)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (yes..although I gave up in the middle and watched the film instead....I am sure this was on the reading list for University as well and I remember everyone laughed)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (love this book....we read that at school already, everyone else was bored, I loved it because I love the time of the American 1920s in books and films. And I loved the film, Robert Redford as a young guy is sweet although he is blond)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (not the whole book.....but you can guess why.)
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (reading list again.....)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (this will be my alltime favorite...the English version of course, not the translation which really really sucks)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ( the German translation though...)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (German translation again....we have the whole edition here=)))
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 (that was very early at school already....)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (in German again.....belongs to my husband, the film was terrific but I am not into such books)
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 ( that had to be read at school....my husband and me share the same experience though we went to different schools....we both hated that book.)
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 ( we did this at school.....and I still love the book! Listen to Brave New World by Iron Maiden at the same time!)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - 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 ( I remember having read the book when the film was on TV.....I loved the count!)
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 (the one and only!!)
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 Dickens ( I love the Muppets version as film.....)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( seen as film...does that count?)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madam 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 ( make them four.....lol)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (why do they list the Complete works and this? like the Complete works of Goethe and Goethe's Faust?
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
41/100......I think I read a lot. Could have been more as I skipped a lot, there were many more from this list on my University Reading List, but I read only those I saw any use in.
I would love to do this for German books though....
Astrid
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (LOVED it before even the films were made.....I hate the boring parts though, these descriptions of Elven families or of the wars)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (another one from my university reading list)
4 Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling (infected my best friend and my daughter with it)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (reading list again....)
6 The Bible (went to school led by nuns...no wonder, huh?)
7 WutheringHeights - Emily Bronte (reading list...it is boring though)
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell ( I think we read that at school already, but if not I read it at university...yes, reading list again)
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 (reading list.....no wait, we did that at school!)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I studied English, you know....any more questions? not reading Shakespeare when you study English is like not reading Goethe when you study German (what I did too..)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (school already.....I liked the book, but today I connect it with John's death...which means that I still read it, but there is a bit of a bittersweet feeling behind)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (yes..although I gave up in the middle and watched the film instead....I am sure this was on the reading list for University as well and I remember everyone laughed)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (love this book....we read that at school already, everyone else was bored, I loved it because I love the time of the American 1920s in books and films. And I loved the film, Robert Redford as a young guy is sweet although he is blond)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (not the whole book.....but you can guess why.)
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (reading list again.....)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (this will be my alltime favorite...the English version of course, not the translation which really really sucks)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ( the German translation though...)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (German translation again....we have the whole edition here=)))
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 (that was very early at school already....)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (in German again.....belongs to my husband, the film was terrific but I am not into such books)
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 ( that had to be read at school....my husband and me share the same experience though we went to different schools....we both hated that book.)
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 ( we did this at school.....and I still love the book! Listen to Brave New World by Iron Maiden at the same time!)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - 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 ( I remember having read the book when the film was on TV.....I loved the count!)
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 (the one and only!!)
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 Dickens ( I love the Muppets version as film.....)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( seen as film...does that count?)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madam 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 ( make them four.....lol)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (why do they list the Complete works and this? like the Complete works of Goethe and Goethe's Faust?
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
41/100......I think I read a lot. Could have been more as I skipped a lot, there were many more from this list on my University Reading List, but I read only those I saw any use in.
I would love to do this for German books though....
Astrid