Irissska's progress

[Irissska]

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen - Read
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien - Read
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte - Read in aug 13
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee - Read
6 The Bible - Read In fact I read children's version several times when i was small (it was much better in fact) and also read 1/4 of the book in 2014 but couldn't finish it and though I am a baptized orthodox christian, I have found that I don't like the idea of Christianity any more and other religions as well and the book partially contributed to this feeling. I cross out this book because I am surely not going to read it.
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman - Read
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens - Read
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 - Read
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien - Read
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger - Read in May, 2013
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald - Read
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy - Read
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Read
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll - Read
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame - Read
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy - Read
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis - Read
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis - Read
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 – A.A. Milne - Read
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 - Read
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 - Read
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 - Read in Dec-14
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens - Read
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 - Read
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 - Read
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 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
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 – E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Read
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery - Read
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 - Read
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare - Read
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl - Read in Jul-14
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[Irissska]

It makes 22.
I half remember reading 3-4 more books from this list but, as I am not 100% sure if I really did, I must re-read them.
I also should re-read some other books from the list: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Oliver Twist, Hamlet, etc.
I read most of these books 10-18 years ago when I was a child/teenager, and I think my impression/understanding will be different now. Sometimes when you are a child you don’t see deeper levels of a book and just enjoy the story (that’s why I was a book worm once:-)
I see some people are very optimistic about their future success. I am sure I will not be able to read some of these books, and I give myself 5 years to complete the list (being optimistic myself:-).

[Irissska]

29 books
Life of Pi - 5 stars!!!
Catcher in the Rye - 4 stars (was kind of boring in the beginning) 31/05/13
Anna Karenina - 5 stars, great!!!
Jane Eyre - 5 stars (was almost crying several times)
The Woman in White – 4 stars. Really interesting but sometimes I wished it was just a little bit shorter. :-)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 5 stars (btw one of the rare cases when i liked movie not less)
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 4 stars - a beautiful book but the plot lacks something - too slow smts, the mystery is not very mysterious, a little bit too predictable