100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List

[Jenny]

Which ones of those have you read, which ones are on your TBR already?

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...#

[Leslie]

I have read 36, and have 5 already marked as TBR. I'll come back tomorrow and write out the list...

[Petra]

Let's see.....I've read:


Pride and Prejudice
1984
The Odyssey
Lolita
Great Expectations
Don Quixote
War and Peace
The Divine Comedy
Ulysses
The Sound and the Fury (amazing)
Things Fall Apart
Middlemarch
Swann's Way
Hunger
Buddenbrooks

That's 15. As well, there are 17 on my TBR list.

[LauraT]

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
9. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
10. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
11. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
12. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
14. King Lear by William Shakespeare
15. The Iliad by Homer
16. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
17. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
18. Othello by William Shakespeare
19. The Trial by Franz Kafka
20. Ulysses by James Joyce
21. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
22. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
23. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
24. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25. Beloved by Toni Morrison
26. Middlemarch by George Eliot
27. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
28. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
29. Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust
30. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
31. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
32. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
33. Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
34. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
35. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
36. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
37. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
38. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
39. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
40. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
41. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
42. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
43. Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
44. History by Elsa Morante
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri I'm planning to read it all wih Jenny, but it'll take three years to complete it all; for the moment I've read only here and there in school ...

[Alannah]

I have read:

Pride and Prejudice
1984
Hamlet
Wuthering Heights
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Great Expectations
The Canterbury Tales
A Doll's House
Middlemarch
To the Lighthouse

[B the BookAddict]

29/100 for me. I love lists:P

[Leslie]

OK, here is what I have read:

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. 1984
3. Hamlet
4. Wuthering Heights
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6. The Odyssey
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude
8. Anna Karenina
9. Lolita
10. Great Expectations
The Old Man and the Sea
11. Moby-Dick; or The Whale
12. King Lear
13. The Iliad
14. War and Peace
15. The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
16. The Canterbury Tales
17. Othello
18. Ulysses
19. Oedipus Rex
20. Pippi Longstocking
21. Mrs. Dalloway
22. Gulliver's Travels
23. Love in a Time of Cholera
24. The Sound and the Fury
25. The Collected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
26. The Arabian Nights; Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
27. A Doll's House
28. Middlemarch
29. To the Lighthouse
30. The Leaves of Grass
31. The Death of Ivan Ilych
32. The Aeneid
33. Sons and Lovers
34. The Golden Notebook
35. Absalom, Absalom!
36. Gargantua and Pantagruel (DNF)

Although interestingly, 3 of those above listed are not marked as read for me so the computer program miscounted my 33 marked as read as 36 (which just coincidentally turned out to be correct).

[Alannah]

Wow, still an amazing list Leslie.

[Sarah. B]

Only seven for me :-(
1. 1984
2. The old man and the sea
3. Great Expectations
4. The stranger
5. Othello
6. Gulliver's Travels
7. Midnight`s Children