I've read 13 of them.
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Have you read these books?
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Have you read these books?
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 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 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 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 Joyce 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
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4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
6 The Bible 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Not complete but whatever.) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (Had it read to me as a child.) 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (Fucking terrible book.) 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (In the process of reading this right now.) 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (FUCK YES. Did I even need to list this here?  )94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (I adore this book.) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Well, 23 out of 100 isn't terrible...especially considering the average is 6.  Still, I got a lotta reading to go!
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May 13, 2011 at 2:54 pm
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(March 13, 2011 at 9:07 pm)Shell B Wrote: 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen I read too much nonfiction to make a respectable dent in this list.  Why is Winnie the Pooh on here, and why would I want to read it?
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Wow I have some catching up to do, so far Ive only read 13. I do choose some really odd reading material most of the time. Ohwell atleast im not average =)
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Several of these were required reading in high school and college:
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl A total of 20. Well, at least it’s higher than 6.  I saw the Movie: (yes, yes I know, most do the book a great injustice) 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ![[Image: Evolution.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i1118.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk619%2Fjcincain%2FPublic%2FEvolution.png)
Im just going to jump on the band wagon, because everyone was doing it.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible (parts) Complete Works of Shakespeare Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Dune - Frank Herbert A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Moby Dick - Herman Melville Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens The Color Purple - Alice Walker Charlotte’s Web - EB White
Live every day as if already dead, that way you're not disappointed when you are.
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 (6 The Bible, parts and a version for the children) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (not in English, though) 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 
Only four. Film adaptions are out. School readings too, as they are compulsory.
So therefore an alternative list. Any excuse ! Here we go. All recommended : Fiction : It - Stephen King Saturday - Ian McEwan Strangers - Dean Koontz Hannibal - Thomas Harris Ghost Story - Peter Straub Consider Pheblas - Iain Banks Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds The Prefect - Alastair Reynolds Wheels Of Terror - Sven Hassel Four Past Midnight - Stephen King The Bachman Books - Stephen King The Damnation Game - Clive Barker Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds Something Happened - Joseph Heller The Six Books Of Blood - Clive Barker Legion Of The Damned - Sven Hassel Non-Fiction : Atoms And Eden - Various : Ken Wilber Sam Harris Elaine Pagels Steven Pinker Francis Collins Daniel Dennett Richard Dawkins Karen Armstrong Rebecca Goldstein Hitler - Ian Kershaw Infinity - Brian Clegg Bad Science - Ben Goldacre The Wilson Plot - David Leigh Voyage Of The Beagle - Charles Darwin On The Origin Of Species - Charles Darwin Climbing Mount Improbable - Richard Dawkins The Greatest Show On Earth - Richard Dawkins
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