I am sure there are a million and one lists of 100 books to read before you die, but my goals is to find a couple of them and then make the ones that appear on lists more than once in bold. π (Always looking for more. & updating.)
- Cutting
- Facing Love Addiction
- Pride and Prejudice β Jane Austen
- The Lord of the Rings β JRR Tolkien
- Jane Eyre β Charlotte Bronte
- Harry Potter series β JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird β Harper Lee
- The Bible
- Wuthering Heights β Emily Bronte
- Nineteen Eighty Four β George Orwell
- His Dark Materials β Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations β Charles Dickens
- Little Women β Louisa M Alcott
- Tess of the DβUrbervilles β Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 β Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Rebecca β Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit β JRR Tolkien
- Birdsong β Sebastian Faulk
- Catcher in the Rye β JD Salinger
- The Time Travelerβs Wife β Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch β George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind β Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby β F Scott Fitzgerald
- Bleak House β Charles Dickens
- War and Peace β Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitch Hikerβs Guide to the Galaxy β Douglas Adams
- Crime and Punishment β Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath β John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland β Lewis Carroll
- The Wind in the Willows β Kenneth Grahame
- Anna Karenina β Leo Tolstoy –
- David Copperfield β Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia β CS Lewis
- Emma β Jane Austen
- Persuasion β Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe β CS Lewis
- The Kite Runner β Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelliβs Mandolin β Louis De Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha β Arthur Golden
- Winnie the Pooh β AA Milne βΒ Thereβs a book about Winnie the Pooh?
- Animal Farm β George Orwell
- The Da Vinci Code β Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude β Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney β John Irving
- The Woman in White β Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables β LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd β Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaidβs Tale β Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies β William Golding
- Atonement β Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi β Yann Martel
- Dune β Frank Herbert
- Cold Comfort Farm β Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility β Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy β Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind β Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities β Charles Dickens
- Brave New World β Aldous Huxley
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night β Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera β Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men β John Steinbeck
- Lolita β Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History β Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones β Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo β Alexandre Dumas
- On The Road β Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure β Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jonesβs Diary β Helen Fielding
- Midnightβs Children β Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick β Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist β Charles Dickens
- Dracula β Bram Stoker
- The Secret Garden β Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes From A Small Island β Bill Bryson
- Ulysses β James Joyce
- The Inferno β Dante
- Swallows and Amazons β Arthur Ransome
- Germinal β Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair β William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession β AS Byatt
- A Christmas Carol β Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas β David Mitchell
- The Color Purple β Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day β Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary β Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance β Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotteβs Web β EB White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven β Mitch Albom
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes β Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Faraway Tree Collection β Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness β Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince β Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Wasp Factory β Iain Banks
- Watership Down β Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces β John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice β Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers β Alexandre Dumas
- Hamlet β William Shakespeare
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory β Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables β Victor Hugo
- The Road Less Traveled — Dr. Scott M. Peck
- In Cold Blood — Truman Capote
- World War Z – Max Brooks
- Education of a Wandering Man– Louis L’Amour
- TheΒ Iliad β Homer
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- Paradise Lost – John Milton
- 1984 – George Orwell
- Shojun – James Clavell
- For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
- The Stand – Stephen King
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
- A Clockwork Orange -Anthony Burgess
- The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Art of War – Sun Tzu
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
- Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein
- Deliverance β James Dickey
- The Dark Knight Returns β Frank Miller
- Season of Mists β Neil Gaiman
- The Princess Bride β William Goldman
- Eaters of the Dead β Michael Crichton
- The Pillars of the Earth β Ken Follett
- Night β Eli Wiesel
- Exodus β Leon Uris
- Contact β Carl Sagan
- You Canβt Go Home Again β Thomas Wolfe
- Blubber β Judy Blume
- Foundation β Isaac Asimov
- The Stranger β Albert Camus
- The Trial β Franz Kafka
- Rabbit, Run β John Updike
- The Long Goodbye β Raymond Chandler
- Absalom, Absalom! β William Faulkner
- Grendel β John Gardner
- Hour of the Dragon β Robert E. Howard
- The Executionerβs Song β Norman Mailer
- Cop Hater β Ed McBain
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurβs Court β Mark Twain
- McTeague β Frank Norris
- A Game of Thrones β George R. R. Martin
- Fight Club β Chuck Palahniuk
- Titus Groan β Mervyn Peake
- Slaughterhouse-Five β Kurt Vonnegut
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea β Jules Verne
- The Divine Comedy β Dante
- Don Quixote β Miguel De Cervantes
- Robinson Crusoe β Daniel Defoe
- The Magus β John Fowles
- Foucaultβs Pendulum β Umberto Eco
- Frankenstein β Mary Shelley
- Rosemaryβs Baby β Ira Levin
- I Am Legend β Richard Matheson
- The Compete Plays of Aristophanes β Aristophanes
- The Science of God β Gerald L. Schroeder
- The Maltese Falcon β Dashiell Hammett
- No Exit β Jean-Paul Sartre
- Alexander of Macedon β Harold Lamb
- Battle Royale β Koushun Takami
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle β Shirley Jackson
- Band of Brothers β Stephen Ambrose
- AncientΒ InventionsΒ β Peter James and Nick Thorpe
- The Telltale Heart and Other Writings β Edgar Allan Poe
- The Call of the Wild β Jack London
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz β Frank Baum
- The Canterbury Tales β Geoffrey Chaucer
I’m going to try reading the entire Lord of the Rings on the train at Christmas! We’ll see.
Dang lady!! π But, I am sure you can do it! You always seemed to read so fast!!