Sunday, 17 March 2013

100 Books Update

Recognise this list?? It's one thing on my 50 Things, and currently makes up most of my 'to read' list! Last time I posted it, I'd fully read eight of them- time to review :)
Italics means part-read, bold means completed.

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 
Harry Potter – JK Rowling 
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 
The Bible
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 
Little Women – Louisa M Alcott  
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare 
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger -
 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 
Emma – Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen - 
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 
 Animal Farm – George Orwell
 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
 Dune – Frank Herbert
 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 
 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold 
 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 
 Dracula – Bram Stoker
 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
 Ulysses – James Joyce
The Inferno – Dante 
 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
 Germinal – Emile Zola
 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
 Possession – AS Byatt
 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
 Charlotte’s Web – EB White  
 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 
 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad - .
 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
 Watership Down – Richard Adams
 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Sooo, I've now read parts of three more, and completed another two (bringing my total to ten fully read). Umm, yeah, time to get reading! ;)