Tuesday, January 4

top 100 books...the official list

I decided on the following list for the top 100 books to read.  Many of them I read years ago, so it will be fun to pick them up again and read them now.  I also remembering trying to read some of these books and putting them down before finishing.  Here's hoping that I finish this time around. 
  1. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
  2. 1984 by George Orwell - February 2011
  3. Animal Farm by George Orwell - February 2011
  4. Ulysses by James Joyce
  5. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - December 2012
  6. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger - June 2012
  7. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee - July 2011
  8. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  9. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  10. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
  11. Wild Swans by Jung Chan
  12. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
  13. The Lord of the Flie by William Golding
  14. On the Road by Jack Kerouac - June 2011
  15. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  16. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  17. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
  18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  19. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
  20. The Outsider by Albert CAmus
  21. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
  22. The Trail by Kranz Kafka
  23. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  24. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  25. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  26. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
  27. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  28. Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
  29. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  30. If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
  31. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  32. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
  33. A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) by Marcel Proust
  34. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  35. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  36. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  37. Possession by AS Byatt
  38. The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  39. A Passage to India by EM Forster
  40. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  41. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
  42. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  43. Love in a Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  44. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  45. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguri
  46. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  47. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
  48. Howard's End by EM Forester
  49. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  50. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
  51. Dune by Frank Herbert
  52. A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irvine
  53. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
  54. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Psternake
  55. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
  56. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
  57. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  58. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  59. Testament of Yough by Ver Brittain
  60. The Magus by John Fowles
  61. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
  62. The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
  63. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bugakov
  64. Tales from the City by Armistead Maupin
  65. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
  66. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
  67. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  68. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig
  69. A Room with a View by EM Forster
  70. Lucky Jim and Kingsley AMis
  71. It by Stephen King
  72. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
  73. The Stand by Stephen King
  74. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  75. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
  76. Matilda by Roald Dahl
  77. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  78. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  79. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  80. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  81. Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
  82. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
  83. Complete Cookery Course by Delia Smith
  84. An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
  85. The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
  86. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
  87. 2001 - A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
  88. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
  89. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  90. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
  91. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkings
  92. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  93. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
  94. Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  95. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  96. The Van by Roddy Doyle
  97. The BFG by Roald Dahl
  98. Earthly Powers by Athony Burgess
  99. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
  100. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans - March 2012
honorary books
  1. Atonement by Ian McEwan - January 2012

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