1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen – love it and teach it!
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien – read all three
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte – love it, and teach it!
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling – love it!
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee – love it, and teach it!
6 The Bible – of course!
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte – started, but never finished
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell – read it in high school
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens – used to teach it, not my favorite
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – not all of them, but quite a few!
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien – read it
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger – read it in high school
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger – want to read it
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald – taught it last year
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams – own it, but never read it
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky – only book I’ve ever hated
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck – should have read it in high school
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol – great story
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy – own it, but never read it
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis – read them as a child, re read some as an adult
34 Emma-Jane Austen – not yet, but I want to!
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen – not yet, but I want to!
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis – great book
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 – not my favorite
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 – read as a child
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding – graded lots of papers on this, but never read it
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 – started, but not finished
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens – own it, but never read it
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez – own it, but never read it
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck – taught it a couple years ago
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas – want to read it
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 – one of my favorites when I was little
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante – read parts of it
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 – read it
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 – loved it as a kid
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom – read it
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad – teach it
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 – want to read it
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare – teach it
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl – loved it as a kid
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
So I've read 26 of them, and I teach/have taught 8 of them. There are a bunch more I'd like to read, but also quite a few I know I will never get around to. Moby Dick? No thank you.War and Peace? I don't think so. I don't blame you if you don't want to repost, but I would love to know what you've read, and what books you love (even if they aren't on the list). I'm always looking for news things to read.
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Here's my list, Diana. I only included those I've read. One of the things I thought I would do while in Switzerland was read some classics I hadn't ever read or re-read some favorites. I ended up spending more time on the hillsides than reading, but I am working my way down my list!!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen – One of my all time favorites!!
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien – read and enjoyed all 3
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte – love it.
4 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee – great book.
5 The Bible – over and over
6 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte – enjoyed it
7 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell – read it in high school. Not a favorite
8 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens – Another I enjoyed
9 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
10 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
11 Complete Works of Shakespeare – not all of them, but a number
12 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien – read it and enjoyed
13 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald – keep starting, but never finished
14 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky – never got through it
15 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck –
16 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol – great story
17 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis – read them as a child, re read some as an adult
18 Emma-Jane Austen – loved it!
19 Persuasion - Jane Austen – great book!!
20 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis – great book
21 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - yep :)
22 Animal Farm - George Orwell – didn't enjoy
23 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery – enjoyed
24 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen – enjoyed!
25 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens – still haven't finished
26 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
27 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck –
28 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens. Great book
29 The Inferno – Dante – read most of it
30 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens – re read it every Christmas
31 Charlotte’s Web - EB White – enjoyed re-reading to my kids
32 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad – really disliked it
33 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
34 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
35 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I'll give some thought to books I love that aren't on the list. I'm sure there are a "few." ;-)
I have READ 12 of them but have seen the movies for many of them. And why does they list Chronicles of Narnia and LW&theW seperate but don't list All the books cause I've read the entire chronicle so that would add 5 more books. Unfortunately most of the books that I've read on this list were read in HS and were only read well enough for the test or report.
I have read 18 of them.
I LOVED The Count of Monte Cristo, which I read in the 9th grade.
There are several on the list that I want to read though!
I've read 38 of them and own about another 5 or 6 I haven't gotten around to reading yet. I've read some of them like Anne of Green Gables so many times my books are ragged! Great list! Thanks for sharing.
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