100 best reads of all time - how many have you read?

[Kaion]

For those of us too lazy to count it up, there's a list which simplifies the process if your goodreads shelves are up-to-date: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/15...

Your count should be near the top of the right column!

[Caity]

Once I updated my bookshelves, my proper count is 16 books, with 26 on my to-read shelf and a lot more on my wishlist.

[Kimberley]

Mandy wrote: "I copied this across from another group and would be interested to hear how many you all have read.

There's a list circulating the web of the top 100 reads of all time posted by the The Big Read..."

I've read 53 on this list but a lot of them would not have made my personal top 100.

[[deleted user]]

23 read ^^

[Steph]

I've read 23. Guess I've got some catching up to do.

[[deleted user]]

Kimberley wrote: "Mandy wrote: "I copied this across from another group and would be interested to hear how many you all have read.

There's a list circulating the web of the top 100 reads of all time posted by the ..."

I know, right? I personally do not like a lot of the books on the list.

[[deleted user]]

I've read 32 so far, but that does not include books I've started but failed to finish, like Madame Bovary and Vanity Fair . I have never been able to read any of Jane Austen's novels all the way through, either, which puts me at a disadvantage as far as this list is concerned. My bad. Then again, we never had to read any of her novels in school. No Hemingway on the list, either?

[Katrina]

I have read 16...quite a few of them I have put in my "I will read one day" pile or have started but never finished due to one reason or another.

[Jane]

Read 21 so far ---

[Regan]

45 and the remainings are already books I have waiting to read or on my list :D

[Pepita]

I reckon I've read about 52 from this list but there are definitely a few on my 'to read' list so might have to return at a later date for a recount.

[AmandaLil]

61 so far, my goal is to read the rest of them by the end of next year.

[Lisa]

I've only read 24, but I own another 30 and they are sitting in the "I'll get to them eventually" pile.

[Betsy]

31-not bad fopr a lower middle class kid from Pittsburgh!

[Miki]

I have read 72 of them. Many of them were required reading when I was in school a long time ago. It is some of the newer ones I have to catch up on. Great list.

[Carol]

I've read 62.

[Dani]

Eek I've only read 21.

I should remedy that...

[Toni]

17! Good Lord, I feel like a failure.

[SandyC]

I've read 34, plus a lot of the Bible (but not all!)

[Angela]

I've read 28. I've left at least a dozen more of those unfinished. Looks like I have a lot of catching up to do.

[Suzanne]

I've read 27 of those, although there are a lot that I have on various wishlists and bookshelves here at home. Just haven't gotten around to reading them yet.

[Diane]

I've read 30--boy, I really need to get reading.

[Diane]

I agree with most of the books, but I certainly didn't like The Handmaid's Tale and just couldn't follow The Time Traveler's Wife. I want to take another crack at that one sometime though.

[Jan]

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - as a kid
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - reread around every decade
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -- as a kid
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling --only 3
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - read
6. The Bible - only parts under duress
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - as a kid
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - yes
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - yes but wouldn't put it here
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - several time
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller yes
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - like the Potter/LOTR should not be all of them
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -- more that 4 times
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger yes
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot tried but failed
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell Yes
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Yes but did for class and did not like
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker'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's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll --yes
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -- yes
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis --yes--another should not be a series--not all are as good
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis--dupe of 33
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -- loved the movie
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden --felt cheated that it was a novel
40. Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne yes
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell -- yes, better than 1984
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown --- fun read
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -- liked the series overall. Read and then later found my mother's original copies
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding yes
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert - Yes many times
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 yes
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon --yes
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 --as a kid
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 --unfortunately twice for classes
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - yes
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker - yes
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -yes
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 - A. S. Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - yes
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker - yes
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 - yes a favorite
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - some not all
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - yes
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams - yes
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - Yes
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - was not this earlier in the complete collection? Yes
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Yes
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Yes

About 47. Short on the contemporay and some of the "classics" such as Austen and Dickens I may have read when I was in the phase. I remember a couple as my mother was asked if it was okay for me to read them at that time. I wonder what I missed by reading them at that point??? I'll add some but on the whole I would agree with the posts as to what is the criteria used for this list--it replicates as well as some questionalble calls

[Steven]

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - YES
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - YES
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -- YES
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling --NO--NONE YET
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - OF COURSE
6. The Bible - EVERY WORD OLD TEST. & NEW TEST--TWICE
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - YES
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - YES
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - NEW TO ME
10. Great Expectations - YES
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - YES
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - NO
13. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller SEVERAL TIMES
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - YES
15. Rebecca - YES
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -- HALF OF IT
17. Birdsong - NO
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger GOODNESS YES
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger NO
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot YES
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell YES
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald YES
23. Bleak House - SOME
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy SOME
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - SOME
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh NO
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky YES
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck YES
29. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll --YES
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -- NO
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy MOST OF IT
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens YES
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis --NOT YET
34. Emma - YES
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen NO
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis--YES
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini SOME OF IT
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -- ON LIST OF THINGS TO DO
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden --NO
40. Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne YES
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell -- YES
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown --- YES
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez YES
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins NO
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -- NO
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy YES
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood NO
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding YES
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan YES
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel YES
52. Dune - Frank Herbert - NO
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons NO
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen YES
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth NO
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon NO
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens YES
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley YES
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon --YES
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez YES
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck YES
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov YES
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt NO
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold YES
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas --YES
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac--PARTS OF IT
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy NO
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding NO
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie YES
70. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville -YES "CATSKILL EAGLE"
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - YES
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker - YES
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -NO
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson NO
75. Ulysses - James Joyce YES
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath YES
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome NO
78. Germinal - Emile Zola NO
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray SOME
80. Possession - A. S. Byatt NO
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - SADLY, YES
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell NO
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker - YES
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro YES
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert YES
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry NO
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White - YES
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom YES
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - SOME--CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton NO
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad YES. LOVE IT.
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -NO
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks NO
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams - YES
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole NO
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute NO
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - YES
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - was not this earlier in the complete collection? YES MANY TIMES
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl NO
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo YES

So...in partial, or yes: 64.

[Carol]

Thought I would update.


1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - YES
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - YES
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -- YES
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling --NO--
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - YES
6. The Bible - YES
7. Wuthering Heights - YES
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - YES
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - NO
10. Great Expectations - YES
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - YES
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - NO
13. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller -YES
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - NO
15. Rebecca - YES
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -- YES
17. Birdsong - NO
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - YES
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger YES
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot NO
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell YES
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald YES
23. Bleak House - YES
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -YES
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - SOME
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh- NO
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky YES
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck YES
29. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll --YES
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -- NO
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -YES
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens YES
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis --YES
34. Emma - YES
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen NO
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis--YES
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -YES
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -- NO
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden --YES
40. Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne YES
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell -- YES
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown --- YES
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -YES
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -YES
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -- NO
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy- YES
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood -NO
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding- YES
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan- YES
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel- YES
52. Dune - Frank Herbert - YES
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons YES
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen YES
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -YES
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon- NO
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -YES
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -YES
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon --NO
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- YES
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -YES
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -YES
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt- NO
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -YES
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas --YES
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac--NO
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy- NO
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding -NO
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie-NO
70. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville -NO
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - YES
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker - YES
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -YES
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -NO
75. Ulysses - James Joyce- YES
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath -YES
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome- NO
78. Germinal - Emile Zola- NO
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -YES
80. Possession - A. S. Byatt- NO
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - YES
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell- NO
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker - YES
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro-NO
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert- YES
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -NO
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White - YES
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom NO
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - YES
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton- NO
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad- YES
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -NO
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks- NO
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams - YES
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -YES
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute- NO
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - YES
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - YES
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl-YES
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -YES


I HAVE READ 68

[Meg]

I've only 30 of these taken care of. I need to get some of these others added to my never-ending list. Lots of ones I'd forgotten I wanted to read on here.

[Janet]

Just found this list. Wow, lots of ambitious readers here. I've read 30. The interesting thing is, I'm 52, and many of those I've read or reread in the past 2 years. Since the last of my children moved out. Some I just don't care to read, so I will never hit 100, but I love GoodReads for helping me find great books.
I just finished #12Tess of the D'Urbervilles tonight, for the 2nd time, Read Watership Downlast month love love this book. Did Cloud Atlas in Feb. etc.along with my other reading that didn't make the list. Soo many good books...

[Diana]

Oops.... I have read only 19.... Means I have some catching up to do... :)

[Wendy Fee]

I'm the same as you Diana. I'm at 19. However, I've got a couple of these sitting beside my bed (in the stack of 40 books sitting there!) waiting to be read. I'm trying to read more classics as well, but keep getting sidetracked by many of the current favs.

[Debbie]

39. Curious as to whose standard Dan Brown was even CONSIDERED to be on a list of "great books".

[ILoveBooks]

Thanks to school and my parents I've literally read over 78 of them and skimmed 86 of them :)

[MissJessie]

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - In school
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 times
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -- twice
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling all of them
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 9th grade
6. The Bible - Here and there
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - yes
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - long ago
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - don't know it
10. Great Expectations - forced to read
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - long ago
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - tried it; gave it up
13. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller no
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - most of them
15. Rebecca - 10th grade
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -- 3 times
17. Birdsong - no
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger yes
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger tried it, thought it boring and gave it up.
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot not yet, on list
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell of course
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald on vacation in England
23. Bleak House - no way
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy no
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - all of it, twice
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh yes, on vacation in England one year
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky no, doorstop only
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck under duress
29. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll --no
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -- read aloud to us in 5th grade
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy no
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens High school
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis --all of them
34. Emma - yes
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen yes
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - Lewis--yes
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini no
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -- no
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden --NO
40. Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne no
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell -- Yes
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown --- Yes sad to say
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez no interest
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins TBR list
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -- yes, entire series
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy No, don't like Hardy.
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Tried twice, could not do it.
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding Yes
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan NO
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel No
52. Dune - Frank Herbert - Yes, first three of series
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons TBR list
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Yes
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth No
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon No
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Forced to read in school. Don't like Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Didn't everyone at the time.
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon --no
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez No, don't read Oprah books as a policy.
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Yes in school
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov TBR list
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt No
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold No
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas --No
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac--Sounds terrible.
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy No. see above
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding No
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie No
70. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville -Most of it.
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - Yes
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker - No
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -Yes
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson On TBR shelf.
75. Ulysses - James Joyce no
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath no
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome NO
78. Germinal - Emile Zola NO
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Tried it, didn't like it.
80. Possession - A. S. Byatt NO
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - Yes, impossible to escape.
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell NO
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker - No
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro On shelf to be read
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert No
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry No
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White - Read to us in elementary school.
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom On the bookshelf.
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - All, multiple times.
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton NO
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad No
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -No
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks No
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams - Yes when it was first published.
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole NO
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute NO
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - No.
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - see above
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl No
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo no

[Danna]

Let me list...

umm

only 28. Bad... but I've got to say about 50 books, not including the 28th I have already read - were among my toread list.

[Wendy]

Ive read 35 of them but a few were for school and college. Im quite pleased i have read so many.

[Danna]

21... it's okay, isn't it?

[Renee]

I've actually read 20! On most lists that I see I usually have only read about 5. It's nice to see a list that I've actually read some of the books and have actually heard of the books. I've also got several of the books on my TBR pile.

[Ryn]

I have read 31 of these. There is some indescribable pleasure derived from going through lists and noting one's achievements. This is good inspiration to read more Austen and Dickens.

[Michael]

89 books this year. WHOOO HOO!, I am trying to get to 100.

[Ashley]

I've read 18 of these books with a lot more piled up on my TBR list. Kat, I'm with you, this is really good inspiration to read more Austen and Dickens.I'd love to make it through a lot of these books by the end of the year.

[Yuliya]

Not so bed from my side - 49 and several from list was already on my to read list. And yes, Susanna, I also noticed strange about Hamlet is separate from the complete plays of William Shakespeare?????? And I think it's too much of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, I would give these authors only one books each in the list to fulfill this list to 100 by masterpieces other authors too.

[Michael]

Michael wrote: "89 books this year. WHOOO HOO!, I am trying to get to 100."

I have read 100 books last year, God is good! I was so happy in myself.

[Jessika]

I have read 30 of these! I had no idea I would have read so many off of this list. And a lot of the rest of them have been on my TBR list, I'm just working my way through it!

[Becca]

I've read 23 off this list but a few are on my bookshelf and some are on my university reading list for this term so the number will creep up :)

[Tawana]

I'm ashamed to admit I've only read 4.5 from the list. However, I'm happy to admit I have suggested 5 for my daughter to read and they are on this list and she has read them plus 4 more. My daughter who doesn't like to read has read 9 of the best books of all tiimes!

[Judy]

I've read 66 of them, but don't really agree with some on the list.

[Jane]

I have read 51 but like others I think there are some that definitely should not be on the list. The Da Vinci Code would not even be in my top 20 books.

[Rory M.]

I've read 32 of the 100...who authored this list? Web link available perchance?

[Kana]

35.... A lot I've been meaning to reread, though (not to mention the ones on that list I still want to read for the first time!)

[Julia]

I've read 47 on the list. Would love to go back and reread some but like others don't agree with some books on the list.