TBR 2018

Books I own but haven’t read so far

Doctors by Erich Segal

Organized by genre and likelihood of me actually reading this.

Contemporary

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Ogni Cosa è Illuminata by Jonathan Safran Foer

Per Sempre by Susanna Tamaro

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

Historical

Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Winter of the World by Ken Follett

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Classics

Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Fantasy

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Young Adult

The Selection Series by Kiera Cass

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

Fictional Characters who like Books

• Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice (novel by Jane Austen).
• Lalita of Bride and Prejudice (movie, Bollywood twist of JA’s novel, above).
• Rory Gilmore of Gilmore Girls (T.V show)
• Hermione Granger of Harry Potter (book series by J,K Rowling)
• Daria of Daria (T,V show)
• Jo March of Little Women (novel by L.M Alcott)
• Tina Hakim Baba of The Princess Dairies (book by Meg Cabot)
• Matilda of Matilda (book by Roald Dahl)
• Maggie of Inkheart (book by Cornelia Funke)
• Fania of Valley of Strength (novel by Shulamit Lapid)
• Kat of 10 Things I Hate About You (movie, modern-day ‘The Taming of the Shrew’)
• Tatiana of The Bronze Horseman (book by Paullina Simons)
• Dash of Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares (book by Rachel Cohn)

Please comment and let me know of many more characters who actually read – characters (preferably females) of TV shows/series, movies, books (even non-fictions). Taste doesn;t  matter, I can find the good in everyone.

Thank You!

The Guardian’s 1000 Must Read Novels

a list of titles.

10/536

1.8% Completed.

I expect to complete only 5% max. of this list.

Comedy

1. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
2. Money by Martin Amis
3. The Information by Martin Amis
4. The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
5. According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
6. Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
7. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
8. Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Howarth Bashford
9. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
10. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
11. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
12. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
13. Queen Lucia by EF Benson
14. The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman
15. A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
16. The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
17. No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon
18. Illywhacker by Peter Carey
19. A Season in Sinji by JL Carr
20. The Harpole Report by JL Carr
21. The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
22. Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary
23. The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary
24. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
25. The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
26. Just William by Richmal Crompton
27. The Provincial Lady by EM Delafield
28. Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries
29. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
30. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
31. Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot
32. A Fairy Tale of New York by JP Donleavy
33. The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
34. Ennui by Maria Edgeworth
35. Cheese by Willem Elsschot
36. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
37. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
38. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
39. Caprice by Ronald Firbank
40. Bouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
41. Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
42. The Polygots by William Gerhardie
43. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
44. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
45. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
46. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
47. Brewster’s Millions by Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)
48. Squire Haggard’s Journal by Michael Green
49. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
50. Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
51. Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
52. The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi
53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
54. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
55. Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgkins
56. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
57. I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
58. The Lecturer’s Tale by James Hynes
59. Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
60. The Mighty Walzer Howard by Jacobson
61. Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell
62. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
63. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
64. The Castle by Franz Kafka
65. Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
66. Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
67. The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
68. L’Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René Lesage
69. Changing Places by David Lodge
70. Nice Work by David Lodge
71. The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
72. England, Their England by AG Macdonell
73. Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
74. Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David Madsen
75. Cakes and Ale – Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard by W Somerset Maugham
76. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
77. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
78. Puckoon by Spike Milligan
79. The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
80. Charade by John Mortimer
81. Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer
82. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
83. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
84. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
85. Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul
86. The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
87. La Disparition by Georges Perec
88. Les Revenentes by Georges Perec
89. La Vie Mode d’Emploi by Georges Perec
90. My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunkett
91. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
92. A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
93. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
94. Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
95. Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
96. Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
97. Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven
98. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
99. The Westminster Alice by Saki
100. The Unbearable Bassington by Saki
101. Hurrah for St Trinian’s by Ronald Searle
102. Great Apes by Will Self
103. Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
104. Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe
105. Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed
106. Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel by Charles Simmons
107. Moo by Jane Smiley
108. Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith
109. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett
110. The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett
111. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett
112. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
113. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
114. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
115. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
116. Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
117. A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
118. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
119. White Man Falling by Mike Stocks
120. Handley Cross by RS Surtees
121. A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
122. Penrod by Booth Tarkington
123. The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
124. Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell
125. Tropic of Ruislip by Leslie Thomas
126. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
127. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
128. Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout
129. The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
130. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
131. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
132. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
133. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
134. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
135. Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
136. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
137. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
138. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
139. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon
140. Tono Bungay by HG Wells
141. Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
142. The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams
143. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson
144. Something Fresh by PG Wodehouse
145. Piccadilly Jim by PG Wodehouse
146. Thank You Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
147. Heavy Weather by PG Wodehouse
148. The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
149. Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse

Family and Self

1. The Face of Another by Kobo Abe
2. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
3. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
4. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
5. Epileptic by David B
6. Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker
7. Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
8. Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
9. The Crow Road by Iain Banks
10. The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
11. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
12. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
13. A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
14. Herzog by Saul Bellow
15. Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
16. The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett
17. G by John Berger
18. Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
19. Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
20. Any Human Heart by William Boyd
21. The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
22. Evelina by Fanny Burney
23. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
24. The Sound of my Voice by Ron Butlin
25. The Outsider by Albert Camus
26. Wise Children by Angela Carter
27. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
28. The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
29. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
30. Les Enfants Terrible by Jean Cocteau
31. The Vagabond by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
32. Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
33. Being Dead by Jim Crace
34. Quarantine by Jim Crace
35. The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
36. Roxana by Daniel Defoe
37. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
38. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
39. My New York Diary by Julie Doucet
40. The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
41. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
42. Silence by Shusaku Endo
43. The Gathering by Anne Enright
44. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
45. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
46. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
47. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
48. Howards End by EM Forster
49. Spies by Michael Frayn
50. Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
51. The Man of Property by John Galsworthy
52. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
53. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
54. The Vatican Cellars by Andre Gide
55. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
56. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
57. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
58. The Shrimp and the Anemone by LP Hartley
59. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
60. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
61. Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
62. The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier
63. Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes
64. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
65. The Ambassadors by Henry James
66. Washington Square by Henry James
67. The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
68. The Unfortunates by BS Johnson
69. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
70. Ulysses by James Joyce
71. Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
72. Memet my Hawk by Yasar Kemal
73. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
74. The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
75. Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
76. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
77. Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
78. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
79. How Green was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
80. Martin Eden by Jack London
81. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
82. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
83. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
84. The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
85. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
86. The Chateau by William Maxwell
87. The Rector’s Daughter by FM Mayor
88. The Ordeal of Richard Feverek by George Meredith
89. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
90. Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
91. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
92. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
93. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
94. Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro
95. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
96. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
97. A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
98. At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien
99. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kezaburo Oe
100. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
101. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
102. My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
103. The Good Companions by JB Priestley
104. The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
105. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
106. A Married Man by Piers Paul Read
107. Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson
108. The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney by Henry Handel Richardson
109. Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
110. Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
111. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
112. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
113. Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel
114. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
115. Unless by Carol Shields
116. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
117. The Three Sisters by May Sinclair
118. The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate by Isaac Bashevis Singer
119. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
120. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
121. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
122. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
123. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield
124. Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
125. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
126. Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
127. Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
128. The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
129. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
130. Death in Summer by William Trevor
131. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
132. Peace in War by Miguel de Unamuno
133. The Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike
134. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
135. Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
136. Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
137. The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells
138. The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
139. Frost in May by Antonia White
140. The Tree of Man by Patrick White
141. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
142. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
143. I’ll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward
144. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
145. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
146. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Love

1. Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier
2. Dom Casmurro Joaquim by Maria Machado de Assis
3. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
7. Emma by Jane Austen
8. Persuasion by Jane Austen
9. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
10. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
11. The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis by Giorgio Bassani
12. Love for Lydia by HE Bates
13. More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow
14. Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore
15. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
16. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
17. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
18. Vilette by Charlotte Bronte
19. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
20. Look At Me by Anita Brookner
21. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
22. Possession by AS Byatt
23. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
24. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
25. A Month in the Country by JL Carr
26. My Antonia by Willa Cather
27. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
28. Claudine a l’ecole by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
29. Cheri by Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette
30. Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad
31. The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
32. The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier
33. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
34. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
35. Adam Bede by George Eliot
36. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
37. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
38. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
39. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
40. Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
41. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
42. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
43. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
44. A Room with a View by EM Forster
45. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
46. The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
47. Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
48. Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide
49. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
50. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
51. Living by Henry Green
52. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
53. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
54. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
55. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
56. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
57. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
58. The Go-Between by LP Hartley
59. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
60. The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
61. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
62. The Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer
63. Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer
64. The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
65. Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by WH Hudson
66. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
67. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
68. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
69. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
70. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
71. The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
72. Beauty and Saddness by Yasunari Kawabata
73. The Far Pavillions by Mary Margaret Kaye
74. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
75. Moon over Africa by Pamela Kent
76. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
77. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
78. Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
79. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence
80. The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
81. Women in Love by DH Lawrence
82. The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann
83. The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
84. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
85. Zami by Audre Lorde
86. Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
87. Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
88. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
89. The Silent Duchess by Dacia Maraini
90. A Heart So White by Javier Marias
91. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
92. Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
93. So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
94. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
95. Atonement by Ian McEwan
96. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
97. The Egoist by George Meredith
98. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
99. Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
100. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
101. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
102. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
103. Arturo’s Island by Elsa Morante
104. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
105. Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male by Vladimir Nabokov
106. The Painter of Signs by RK Narayan
107. Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
108. All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom
109. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
110. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
111. Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost
112. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
113. Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
114. Pamela by Samuel Richardson
115. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
116. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
117. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
118. Ali and Nino by Kurban Said
119. Light Years by James Salter
120. A Sport and a Passtime by James Salter
121. The Reader by Benhardq Schlink
122. The Reluctant Orphan by Aara Seale
123. Love Story by Eric Segal
124. Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
125. At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
126. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
127. The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
128. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
129. Waterland by Graham Swift
130. Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki
131. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
132. Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
133. First Love by Ivan Turgenev
134. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
135. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
136. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
137. The Graduate by Charles Webb
138. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
139. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
140. East Lynne by Ellen Wood
141. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Science Fiction and Fantasy

1. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
5. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling

State of the Nation

1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
2. Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
3. London Fields by Martin Amis
4. Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
5. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
6. La Comedie Humaine by Honore de Balzac
7. They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy
8. A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow
9. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
10. Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn
11. Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
12. The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
13. Room at the Top by John Braine
14. A Dry White Season by Andre Brink
15. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
16. Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
17. The Virgin in the Garden by AS Byatt
18. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
19. The Plague by Albert Camus
20. The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
21. What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
22. Disgrace by JM Coetzee
23. Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coeztee
24. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
25. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
26. Underworld by Don DeLillo
27. White Noise by Don DeLillo
28. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
29. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
30. Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
31. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
32. Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
33. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
34. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
35. Sybil or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli
36. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
37. The Book of Daniel by EL Doctorow
38. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
39. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
40. USA by John Dos Passos
41. Sister Carrie by Theodor Dreiser
42. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
43. Middlemarch by George Eliot
44. Silas Marner by George Eliot
45. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
46. Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
47. Effi Briest by Theodore Fontane
48. Independence Day by Richard Ford
49. A Passage to India by EM Forster
50. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
51. The Recognitions by William Gaddis
52. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
53. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
54. The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
55. The Odd Women by George Gissing
56. New Grub Street by George Gissing
57. July’s People by Nadine Gordimer
58. Mother by Maxim Gorky
59. Lanark by Alastair Gray
60. Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood
61. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
62. A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
63. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
64. South Riding by Winifred Holtby
65. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
66. Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
67. Chronicle in Stone by Ismael Kadare
68. How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman
69. The Leopard by Giuseppi di Lampedusa
70. A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
71. Passing by Nella Larsen
72. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
73. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
74. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
75. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
76. Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
77. The Group by Mary McCarthy
78. Amongst Women by John McGahern
79. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
80. Of Love & Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross
81. Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
82. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
83. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
84. Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
85. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
86. Animal Farm by George
87. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
88. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
89. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
90. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
91. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
92. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
93. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
94. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Goodread’s Best Books Ever List

a short list of top 100 titles.

Books: 38/100

38% Completed.

The bookד are picked by Goodread’s userד, and NOT by professional reviewers (because Twilight’s on top! What a SICK world we live in! – I resent that book!)

1. Twilight
2. Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix
3. the hunger games
4. Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
5. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
6. Harry Potter and the half blood prince
7. Gone with the Wind
8. The giving tree
9. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
10. Animal Farm
11. 1984
12. Wuthering Heights
13. Memoirs of a Geisha
14. The Lion, The Witch and The Warbord
15. The Time Traveler’s Wife
16. The Count of Monte Criston
17. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
18. To Kill a Mockingbird
19. Anne of Green Gables
20. Romeo and Juliet
21. The Da Vinci Code
22. The Book Thief
23. Crime and Punishment
24. Ender’s Game
25. Lord of the Flies
26. A Wrinkle in Time
27. Charlotte’s Web
28. Pride and Prejudice
29. Les Miserables
30. The Princess Bride
31. Grapes of Wrath
32. The Alchemist
33. Where The Wild Things Are
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray
35. Hamlet
36. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
37. One Hundered Years of Soltitude
38. Dracula
39. Of Mice and Men
40. The Lovely Bones
41. Water for Elephants
42. Brave New World
43. A Tale of Two Cities
44. Fahreinhat 451
45. Sense and Sensibility
46. A Thousand Splendid Suns
47. Jane Eyre
48. The Secret Garden
49. Lolita
50. The Odyssey
51. Night
52. Slaughterhouse Five
53. Anna Karenina
54. Catch 22
55. Life of Pi
56. Watership Down
57. The Pillars of The Earth
58. The Host
59. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
60. The Poisonwood Bible
61. The Road
62. Angela’s Ashes
63. The Handmaid’s Tale
64. The Bell Jar
65. The Fellowship of The Ring
66. The Fountainhead
67. The Stand
68. My Sister’s Keeper
69. Atlas Shrugged
70. Frankenstein
71. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
72. Outlander
73. War and Peace
74. One Flew Over The Cukoo’s Nest
75. A Prayer for Owen Meany
76. The Color Purple
77. Moby Dick
78. Rebecca
79. The Red Tent
80. The Glass Castle
81. A Game of Thrones
82. Middlesex
83. The Help
84. City of Bones
85. The Secret Life of Bees
86. On The Road
87. Lonesome Dove
88. Mockingjay
89. Vampire Academy
90. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
91. Interview with The Vampire
92. The Notebook
93. Macbeth
94. Matilda
95. The Golden Compass
96. Their Eyes Were Watching God
97. Catcher in The Rye
98. The Old Man and The Sea
99. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
100. The Diary of a Young Girl

BBC – The Big Read’s Top 100 Books

a short list of 100 titles.

Books Read: 25/100

25% Completed.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie

Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels – The Reader’s List & The Board’s List (Combined)

a short list of titles.

The Redaer’s List

1. Ulyssesby James Joyce
2. A Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
3. The Great Gatsbyby F.S Fitzgerald
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6. Atlas Shruggedby Ayn Rand
7. The Fountainheadby Ayn Rand
8. To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper Lee
9. The Fellowship of The Ring by JRR Tolkein
10. 1984 by George Orwell
11. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
12. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
13. Darkness at Noonby Arthur Koestler
14. Sons and Loversby D.H. Lawrence
15. The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck
16. Under The Volcanoby Malcolm Lowry
17. I, Claudiusby Robert Graves
18. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
19. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
20. The Heart is a Lonely Hunterby Carson McCullers
21. Native Sonby Richard Wright
22. Animal Farmby George Orwell
23. U.S.A Trilogyby John Dos Passos
24. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
25. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
26. Lord of the Fliesby William Golding
27. The Wings of The Doveby Henry James
28. The Standby Stephan King
29. The Good Soldierby Ford Madox Ford
30. SisterCarrieby Theodore Dreiser
31. MoonHeart by Charles de Lint
32. A Handful of Dustby Evelyn Waugh
33. All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
34. The Birdge of San Luis Reyby Thornton Wilder
35. Go Tell It on The Mountain by James Baldwin
36. Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
37. Someplace To Be Flyingby Charles de Lint
38. The Mountains of Madnessby H.P. Lovecraft
39. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to teh Galaxyby Douglas Adams
40. The Handmain’s Taleby Margaret Atwood
41. Light in Augustby William Faulkner
42. On The Roadby Jack Kerouac
43. The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton
44. The Parade’s Endby Ford Madox Ford
45. The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever
46. The Haunting on Hill Houseby Shirley Jackson
47. The Door Into Summerby Robert Heinlein
48. A High Wind in Jamaicaby Richard Hughes
49. Scoopby Evelyn Waugh
50. The Hunt for Red Octoberby Tom Clancy
51. Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad
52. Brideshead Revisitedby Evelyn Waugh
53. The Old Wive’s Taleby Arnold Bennett
54. Midnight’s Childrenby Salman Rushdie
55. My Antonia by Willa Cather

New York Times Best Book List for 2000-2012 (fiction)

another list…

2000
1. Being Dead
2. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
3. Gertrude And Claudius
4. The Human Stain
5. White Teeth

2001
1. Austerlitz
2. The Corrections
3. John Henry Days
4. True History of the Kelly Gang
5. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

2002
1. Atonement
2. Middlesex
3. Roscoe

2003
1. Brick Lane
2. Drop City
3. The Fortress Of Solitude
4. The Known World

2004
1. Gilead
2. The Master
3. The Plot Against America
4. Snow
5. War Trash

2005
1. Kafka on the Shore
2. On Beauty
3. Prep
4. Saturday
5. Veronica

2006
1. Absurdistan
2. The Collected Stories
3. The Emperor’s Children
4. The Lay of the Land
5. Special Topics in Calamity Physics

2007
1. Man Gone Down
2. Out Stealing Horses
3. The Savage Detectives
4. Then We Came to the End
5. Tree of Smoke

2008
1. Dangerous Laughter
2. A Mercy
3. Netherland
4. 2666
5. Unaccustomed Earth

2009
1. Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It
2. Chronic City
3. A Gate at the Stairs
4. Half Broke Horses
5. A Short History of Women

2010
1. Freedom
2. The New Yorker Stories
3. Room
4. Selected Stories by William Trevor
5. A Visit from the Goon Squad

2011
1. The Art of Fielding
2. 11/22/63
3. Swamplandia!
4. Ten Thousand Saints
5. The Tiger’s Wife

The New Classics Challenge

another challenge. 100 books total.

 

1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
4. The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
7. Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
16. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)
17. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
18. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)
19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
20. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)
21. On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
30. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)
31. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (1990)
32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)
33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
34. The Lovely , Alice Sebold (2002)
35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36. Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
37. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)
38. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1998)
39. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
40. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
41. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)
43. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)
44. Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
45. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1988)
46. Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
47. World’s Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
49. Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
50. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money, Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
65. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)
74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)
77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
82. Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
83. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)
84. Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
85. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
93. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)
96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)
97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
98. The Predators’ Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)
99. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)

 

Books I have Read: 4

4% Completed.

501 Must Read Books Challenge

another list.

1.Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
2.Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
3.Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
4.The Wonderful World of Oz – L. Frank Baum
5.The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle
6.The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
7.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
8.Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
9.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
10.Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
11.The Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Alan Garner
12.The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
13.Children’s and Household Tales – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
14.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
15.Emil and the Detectives – Erich Kästner
16.Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling
17.The Complete Nonsense Books – Edward Lear
18.A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
19.The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
20.Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
21.Dr Dolittle – Hugh Lofting
22.At the Back of the North Wind – George Macdonald
23.Nobody’s Boy – Hector Malot
24.Winnie-the-Pooh – A.A. Milne
25.Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
26.Five Children and It – E. Nesbit
27.Tom’s Midnight Garden – Philippa Pearce
28.The War of the Buttons – Louis Pergaud
29.Fairy Tales – Charles Perrault
30.The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
31.The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
32.Northern Lights – Philip Pullman (aka. The Golden Compass)
33.Swallows and amazons – Arthur Ransome
34.Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang – Mordecai Richler
35.Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
36.The King of the Golden River – John Ruskin
37.The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
38.The Human Comedy – William Saroyan
39.The Misfortunes of Sophie – Comtesse de Segur
40.Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
41.And To Think That I Saw It On Mulburry Street – Dr Seuss
42.Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
43.The Golem – Isaac Bashevis Singer
44.Heidi – Johanna Spyri
45.Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
46.The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
47.Mary Poppins – P.L. Travers
48.Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
49.The Sword in the Stone – T.H. White
50.Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin
51.The Happy Prince and Other Tales – Oscar Wilde

CLASSIC FICTION

52.The Epic of Gilgamesh – Anonymous
53.The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
54.Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55.Old Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
56.Vathek: an Arabian Tale – William Beckford
57.Lady Audley’s Secret – Mary Elisabeth Braddon
58.Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
59.Wuthering Heights – Emil Brontë
60.The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
61.The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chauser
62.The Collected Stories – Anton Chekhov
63.The Man Who Was Thursday – G.K. Chesterton
64.Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure – John Cleland
65.The Moonstone: a Romance – Wilkie Collins
66.The Hound of Baskerville – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
67.Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
68.Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
69.The Christmas Books – Charles Dickens
70.Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
71.Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
72.Middlemarch: A Study in Provincial Life – George Eliot
73.Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
74.The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
75.Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
76.Howards End – E.M. Forster
77.North and South – Elisabeth Gaskell
78.The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
79.The Vicar of Wakefiled – Oliver Goldsmith
80.The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
81.King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
82.Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
83.The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
84.Moby Dick – Herman Melville
85.The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
86.The Iliad – Homer
87.Les Misérables (The Wretched) – Victor Hugo
88.Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
89.Kim – Rudyard Kipling
90.Bliss and Other Stories – Katherine Mansfield
91.Utopia – Sir Thomas More
92.Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque – Edgar Alan Poe
93.In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
94.A Silician Romance – Anne Radcliffe
95.Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
96.Waverley – Sir Walter Scott
97.Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
98.The Red and the Black – Stendhal
99.The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
100.Dracula – Bram Stoker
101.Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
102.Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thakeray
103.War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
104.Barchester Towers – Anthony Trollope
105.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
106.Candide, or Optimism – Voltaire
107.The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
108.The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
109.The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
110.To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
111.La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola

HISTORY

112.London The Biography – Peter Ackroyd
113.Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life – John Lee Anderson
114.The Hour of Our Death – Philippe Aries
115.Berlin The Downfall – Antony Beevor
116.The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II – Fernand Braudel
117.The Pleasures of Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century – John Brewer
118.Frozen Desire: An Enquiry Into the Meaning of Money – James Buchan
119.Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives – Alan Bullock
120.The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy – Jacob Burckhardt
121.Daily Life in Ancient Rome – Jerome Carcopino
122.The Accursed Kings – Maurice Druon
123.The Age of the Cathedrals – Georges Duby
124.The Stripping of the Altars – Eamon Duffy
125.Rites of Spring – Modris Eksteins
126.The Wretched of the Earth – Franz Fanon
127.Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire – Niall Ferguson
128.Millennium – Felipe Fernández-Armesto
129.Pagans and Christians – Robin Lane Fox
130.The End of History and the Last Man – Francis Fukuyama
131.The Naked Heart – Peter Gay
132.The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon
133.The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy – Martin Gilbert
134.The Cheese and the Worms – Carlo Ginzburg
135.God’s First Love – Friedrich Heer
136.Histories – Herodotus
137.Hiroshima – John Hersey
138.The Fatal Shore – Robert Hughes
139.Pandaemonium – Humphrey Jennings
140.A History of Warfare – John Keegan
141.A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies – Bartolomé de las Casas
142.Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Thomas Edwards Lawrence
143.Islam in History – Bernard Lewis
144.Chinese Shadows – Simon Leys
145.The Crusades through Arab Eyes – Amin Maalouf
146.The Defeat of the Spanish Armada – Garrett Mattingly
147.The Story of English – Robert Mccrum, William Cran, Robert Macneil
148.The Ornament of the World – Maria Rosa Menocal
149.The Women’s History of the World – Rosalind Miles
150.Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire – Jan Morris
151.Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade – Henri Pirenne
152.Parallel Lives – Plutarch
153.Flesh in the Age of Reason – Roy Porter
154.Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution – Simon Schama
155.Leviathan and the Air-Pump – Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer
156.The Decline of the West – Oswald Spengler
157.The Trial of Socrates – Isador Stone
158.Annals of Imperial Rome – Tacitus
159.The Origins of the Second World War – A.J.P. Taylor
160.A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century – Barbara M. Tuchman
161.A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn

MEMOIRS

162.Paula – Isabel Allende
163.Journal Intime – Henri-Frédéric Amiel
164.Aubrey’s Brief Lives – John Aubrey
165.Confessions – Augustine
166.Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir
167.My Left Foot – Christy Brown
168.The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini – Benvenuto Cellini
169.The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus – Cyril Connolly
170.Boy: Tales of Childhood – Roald Dahl
171.My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell
172.An Angel at my Table – Janet Frame
173.The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
174.Journals 1889-1949 – Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
175.Poetry and Truth: From My Own Life – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
176.Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments – Edmund Gosse
177.Ways of Escape – Graham Greene
178.Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin
179.84, Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff
180.Pentimento – Lillian Hellman
181.Childhood, Youth and Exile – Alexander Herzen
182.The Diary of Alice James – Alice James
183.Memoirs, Dreams, Reflections – Carl Gustav Jung
184.Diaries 1919-23 – Franz Kafka
185.The Story of My Life – Helen Keller
186.The Book of Margery Kempe – Margery Kempe
187.I Will Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer
188.In the Castle of My Skin – George Lamming
189.A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis
190.The Towers of Trebizond – Rose Macauley
191.Journal of Katherine Mansfield – Katherine Mansfield
192.The Seven Storey Mountain – Thomas Merton
193.The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
194.Borrowed Time – Paul Monette
195.My Place – Sally Morgan
196.Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited – Vladimir Nabokov
197.Reading Lolita in Teheran: A Memoir in Books – Azar Nafisi
198.Memoirs – Pablo Neruda
199.Portrait of a Marriage – Nigel Nicolson
200.Running in the Family – Michael Ondaatje
201.Down an Out in Paris and London – George Orwell
202.Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramahansa Yogananda
203.Diary – Samuel Pepys
204.Letters – Pliny The Younger
205.Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
206.Words – Jean-Paul Sartre
207.Journal of a Solitude – May Sarton
208.Walden – Henry David Thoreau
209.De Profundis – Oscar Wilde
210.Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
211.Autobiographies – William Butler Yeats

MODERN FICTION

212.Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
213.Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands – Jorge Amado
214.Le Grand Meaulnes – Alain-Fournier
215.Take a Girl Like You – Kingsley Amis
216.Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson
217.Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
218.The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
219.Tales of Odessa – Isaak Babel
220.Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
221.The Sweet Hereafter – Russell Banks
222.The Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker
223.Herzog – Saul Bellow
224.Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
225.Nadja – André Breton
226.The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
227.The Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
228.Possession – A.S. Byatt
229.If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino
230.The Outsider – Albert Camus
231.Auto da Fé – Elias Canetti
232.Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
233.The Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
234.The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter
235.What We Talk about When We Talk about Love – Raymond Carver
236.The Horse’s Mouse – Joyce Carey
237.Journey to the End of Night – Louis-Ferdinand Celine
238.Soldier of Salamis – Javier Cercas
239.The Stories of John Cheever – John Cheever
240.Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
241.Chéri – Colette
242.Victory – Joseph Conrad
243.A House and Its Head – Ivy Compton-Burnett
244.Fifth Business – William Robertson Davies
245.Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
246.Underworld – Don Delillo
247.Seven Gothic Tales – Isak Dinesen ( also known as Karen Blixen )
248.Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Doblin
249.Once Were Warriors – Alan Duff
250.Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
251.The Lover – Marguerite Duras
252.The Alexandria Quartet – Lawrence George Durrell
253.The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
254.The Neverending Story – Michael Ende
255.The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
256.The Wars – Timothy Findley
257.The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford
258.Wildlife – Richard Ford
259.A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
260.The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
261.Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
262.The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald
263.From the Fifteenth District – Mavis Gallant
264.One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
265.Our Lady of the Flowers – Jean Genet
266.Lord of the Flies – William Golding
267.July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
268.FerdyDurke – Witold Gombrowicz
269.The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
270.Hunger – Knut Hamsun
271.The Blind Owl – Sadegh Hedayat
272.The Old Man and the Sea – Earnest Hemingway
273.The Glass Bead Game – Hermann Hesse
274.Lost Horizon – James Hilton
275.A High Wind in Jamaica – Richard Hughes
276.The World According to Garp – John Irving
277.Berlin Stories – Christopher Isherwood
278.The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
279.Ulysses – James Joyce
280.The File on H – Ismail Kadare
281.The Trial – Franz Kafka
282.It – Stephen King
283.The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
284.The Leopard – Guiseppe Di Lampedusa
285.The Diviners – Margaret Laurence
286.Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
287.The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
288.The Periodic Table – Primo Levi
289.Changing Places – David Lodge
290.The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas – J.M. Machado de Assis
291.The Cairo Trilogy – Naguib Mahfouz
292.The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer
293.God’s Grace – Bernard Malamud
294.An Imaginary Life – David Malouf
295.The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
296.Embers – Sándor Márai
297.Life of Pi – Yann Martel
298.Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
299.The Group – Mary McCarthy
300.The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
301.Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
302.The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
303.A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
304.Cold Heaven – Brian Moore
305.Beloved – Toni Morrison
306.The Progress of Love – Alice Munro
307.The Sea, the Sea – Iris Murdoch
308.Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
309.A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
310.The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brian
311.A Good Man is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor
312.The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
313.Where the Jackals Howl – Amos Oz
314.The Messiah of Stockholm – Cynthia Ozick
315.Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
316.Mr. Weston’s Good Wine – T.F. Powys
317.The Nephew – James Purdy
318.Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
319.Barney’s Version – Mordecai Richler
320.Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
321.The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
322.The Human Stain – Philip Roth
323.The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
324.Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
325.Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan
326.Short Stories – Saki
327.Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
328.Staying On – Paul Scott
329.Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
330.Last Exit to Brooklyn – Hubert Selby Jr.
331.Unless – Carol Shields
332.The Magician of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer
333.The Engineer of Human Souls – Josef Skvorecky
334.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
335.The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
336.The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
337.Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
338.Perfume – Patrick Süskind
339.The Confessions of Zeno – Italo Svevo
340.Declares Pereira – Antonio Tabucchi
341.The White Hotel – D.M. Thomas
342.The Master – Colm Toibin
343.Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
344.The Palm-Wine Drinkard – Amos Tutuola
345.The Accidental Tourist – Anne Tyler
346.Couples – John Updike
347.The Time of the Hero – Mario Vargas Llosa
348.In Praise of Older Women – Stephen Vizinczey
349.Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
350.Voss – Patrick White
351.Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar

SCIENCE FICTION

352.The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Noel Adams
353.Hothouse – Brian Aldiss
354.Brain Wave – Poul Anderson
355.I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
356.The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
357.The Crystal World – J.G. Ballard
358.The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester
359.Who Goes There – John W. Campbell
360.The Invention of Moral – Adolfo Bioy Casares
361.Planet of the Apes – Pierre Boule
362.The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
363.The Sheep Look Up – John Brunner
364.A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
365.Erewhon – Samuel Butler
366.Cosmicomics – Italo Calvino
367.2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
368.A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder – James De Mille
369.The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick
370.To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Philip Jose Farmer
371.Neuromancer – William Gibson
372.Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein
373.Dune – Frank Herbert
374.Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
375.Two Planets – Kurd Lasswitz
376.Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
377.Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
378.Shikasta – Doris Lessing
379.Stepford Wives – Ira Levin
380.Out of the Silent Planet – C.S. Lewis
381.I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
382.Dwellers in the Mirage – Abraham Merritt
383.A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter Miller
384.Ringworld – Larry Niven
385.Time Traders – Andre Norton
386.Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
387.The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket – Edgar Allan Poe
388.The Inverted World – Christopher Priest
389.The Green Child – Herbert Read
390.The Laxian Key – Robert Sheckley
391.City – Clifford D. Simak
392.Donovan’s Brain – Curt Siodmak
393.Lest Darkness Fall – L. Sprague De Camp
394.Last and First Men – Olaf Stapledon
395.More than Human – Theodore Sturgeon
396.Slan – A.E. Van Vogt
397.A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
398.Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade – Kurt Vonnegut
399.The Island of Dr Moreau – H.G. Wells
400.Islandia – Aistin Tappan Wright
401.The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

THRILLERS

402.More Work for the Undertaker – Margery Allingham
403.Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly – John Franklin Bardin
404.Trent’s Last Case – E.C. Bentley
405.Trial and Error – Anthony Berkeley
406.The Poisoned Chocolates Case – Anthony Berkeley
407.The Beast Must Die – Nicholas Blake
408.Psycho – Robert Bloch
409.Double Indemnity – James Cain
410.Thus Was Adonis Murdered – Sarah Caudwell
411.Farewell, My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
412.No Orchids for Miss Blandish – James Hadley Chase
413.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
414.The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
415.Unnatural Expousre – Patricia Cornwell
416.The Moving Toyshop – Edmund Crispin
417.In the Last Analysis – Amanda Cross
418.Rose at Ten – Marco Denevi
419.Vendetta – Michael Dibdin
420.The Glass-sided Ants’ Nest – Peter Dickinson
421.He Who Whispers – John Dickson Carr
422.The Big Clock – Kenneth Fearing
423.Blood Sport – Dick Francis
424.Quiet as a Nun – Lady Antonia Fraser
425.The Sunday Woman – Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini
426.Death in the Wrong Room – Anthony Gilbert
427.Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
428.Suicide Excepted – Cyril Hare
429.Bones and Silence – Reginald Hill
430.A Rage in Harlem – Chester Himes
431.Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow – Peter Hoeg
432.Malice Aforethought – Francis Iles
433.Hamlet, Revenge! – Michael Innes
434.The Murder Room – P.D. James
435.The Sleeping-Car Murders – Sebastien Japrisot
436.Death of My Aunt – C.H.B. Kitchin
437.The Spy Who Came In From the Cold – John Le Carre
438.The Mystery of the Yellow Room – Caston Leroux
439.The Last Detective – Peter Lovesey
440.Final Curtain – Ngaio Marsh
441.An Oxford Tragedy – J.C. Masterman
442.The Steam Pig – James McClure
443.The Seven Per Cent Solution – Nicholas Meyer
444.How Like An Angel – Margaret Millar
445.The Red House Mystery – A.A. Milne
446.A Red Death – Walter Mosley
447.Deadlock – Sara Paretsky
448.Dover One – Joyce Porter
449.The Chinese Orange Mystery – Ellery Queen
450.The Man in the Net – Patrick Quentin
451.A Judgement in Stone – Ruth Rendell
452.Gaudy Night – Dorothy L. Sayers
453.Mr Hire’s Engagement – Georges Simeon
454.The Laughing Policeman – Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
455.The Red Box – Rex Stout
456.the Man Who Killed Himself – Julian Symons
457.A Pin to See the Peep-Show – F. Tennyson Jesse
458.The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
459.Above the Dark Circus – Sir Hugh Walpole
460.Born Victim – Hillary Waugh
461.The Bride Wore Black – Cornell Woolrich

TRAVEL WRITING

462.Travels – Ibn Battuta
463.The Scorpion-Fish – Nicholas Bouvier
464.The Road to Oxiana – Robert Byron
465.In Patagonia – Bruce Charles Chatwin
466.The Voyage on HMS Beagle – Charles Darwin
467.My Journey to Lhasa – Alexandra David-Neel
468.On the Narrow Road to the Deep North – Lesley Downer
469.The Traveller’s Tree – Patrick Leigh Fermor
470.Seven Years in Tibet – Heinrich Harrer
471.Kon Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl
472.The Purple Land – W.H. Hudson
473.The Last Place on Earth – Roland Huntford
474.Video Night in Kathmandu – Pico Iyer
475.Journey to the Hebrides – Samuel Johnson, James Boswell
476.Eothen – A.W. Kinglake
477.The Seasick Whale – Emphraim Kishon
478.A Rose for Winter – Laurie Lee
479.Golden Earth: Travels in Burma – Norman Lewis
480.The Cruise of the Snark – Jack London
481.Arctic Dreams – Barry Lopez
482.The Danube – Claudio Magris
483.The Snow Leopard – Peter Matthiessen
484.Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone – Jan Morris
485.Never Cry Wolf – Farley Mowat
486.Among the Believers: an Islamic Journey – V.S. Naipaul
487.A short Walk in the Hindu Kush – Eric Newby
488.Roads to Santiago – Cees Nooteboom
489.La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West – Francis Parkman
490.Into the Heart of Borneo – Raymond O’Hanlon
491.The Travels – Marco Polo
492.Dead Man’s Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson – Nicholas Rankin
493.Sailing Alone Around the World – Joshua Slocum
494.Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile – J.H. Speke
495.Travels with Charley: In Search of America – John Steinbeck
496.Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes – Robert Louis Stevenson
497.The Valley of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels – Freya Stark
498.The Great Railway Bazaar – Paul Theroux
499.Southern Cross to Pole Star – A.F. Tschiffely
500.A Tramp Abroad – Mark Twain
501.On Fiji Islands – Ronald Wright

Books I have read: 26/500

51% Completed.

World Book Night 2012 Reading Challenge

another list.

1 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
2 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
3 The Book Thief Markus Zusak
4 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
5 The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
6 The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien
7 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
8 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
9 Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
10 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
11 American Gods Neil Gaiman
12 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
13 Harry Potter Adult Hardback Boxed Set J. K. Rowling
14 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
15 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien
16 One Day David Nicholls
17 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18 The Help Kathryn Stockett
19 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
20 Good Omens Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
21 The Notebook Nicholas Sparks
22 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
23 The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
24 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
25 Little Women Louisa M. Alcott
26 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
27 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
28 Atonement Ian McEwan
29 Room Emma Donoghue
30 Catch-22 Joseph Heller
31 We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver
32 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
33 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
34 The Island Victoria Hislop
35 Neverwhere Neil Gaiman
36 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
37 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
38 Chocolat Joanne Harris
39 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
40 The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom
41 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
42 Animal Farm George Orwell
43 The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
44 The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
45 Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
46 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
47 I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
48 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
49 Life of Pi Yann Martel
50 The Road Cormac McCarthy
51 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
52 Dracula Bram Stoker
53 The Secret History Donna Tartt
54 Small Island Andrea Levy
55 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
56 Lord of the Flies William Golding
57 Persuasion Jane Austen
58 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
59 Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson
60 Watership Down Richard Adams
61 Night Watch Terry Pratchett
62 Brave New World Aldous Huxley
63 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
64 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke
65 The Color Purple Alice Walker
66 My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
67 The Stand Stephen King
68 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
69 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
70 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
71 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
72 Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
73 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer
74 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
75 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
76 The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman
77 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
78 The Princess Bride William Goldman
79 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
80 Perfume Patrick Suskind
81 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
82 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
83 Middlemarch George Eliot
84 Dune Frank Herbert
85 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
86 Stardust Neil Gaiman
87 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
88 Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
89 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone J. K. Rowling
90 Shantaram Gregory David Roberts
91 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
92 Possession: A Romance A. S. Byatt
93 Tales of the City Armistead Maupin
94 Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami
95 The Magus John Fowles
96 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne
97 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
98 Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
99 Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
100 The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami

Number of books read: 24/100

24% Completed