Bold the titles you’ve read. Italicize the titles you own but haven’t read. Strike out the ones you couldn't finish/stand. Put an * next to the books you've read more than once.
1. The God of Small Things2. A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present (Too depressing to finish; I can read about horrible stuff in fiction, but in non-fiction it upsets me. Go figger.)
3. Cryptonomicon
4. Neverwhere
5. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
6. Anna Karenina
7. Crime and Punishment
8. Catch-22*
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude
10. Wuthering Heights
11. The Silmarillion
12. Life of Pi*13. The Name of the Rose
14. Don Quixote
15. Moby Dick
16. Ulysses
17. The Odyssey
18. Pride and Prejudice
19. Jane Eyre
20. A Tale of Two Cities
21. The Brothers Karamazov
22. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
23. War and Peace
24. Vanity Fair
25. The Time Traveler’s Wife
26. The Iliad
27. Emma
28. The Blind Assassin
29. The Kite Runner
30. Mrs. Dalloway
31. Great Expectations
32. American Gods
33. Atlas Shrugged (Didn't everyone read Ayn Rand as a teenager?)
34. Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books (This one inspired me to read some Henry James. I'm in the middle of Portrait of a Lady
35. Memoirs of a Geisha
36. Middlesex
37. Quicksilver (Never heard of it.)
38. Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
39. The Canterbury Tales (And I can still recite the opening lines. In middle English. Such a worthless talent.)
40. The Historian
41. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
42. Love in the Time of Cholera
43. Brave New World
44. The Fountainhead (More Ayn Rand.)
45. Foucault’s Pendulum
46. Middlemarch
47. Frankenstein
48. The Count of Monte Cristo
49. Dracula
50. A Clockwork Orange
51. Anansi Boys
52. The Once and Future King
53. The Grapes of Wrath
54. The Poisonwood Bible
55. 1984*
56. Angels & Demons (No Dan Brown for me ever again. His special talent seems to be seeing how many cliffhangers he can cram into one book.)
57. The Inferno58. The Satanic Verses (#1 son read it for a world lit independent study course in high school and loved it. Me, not so much,)
59. Sense and Sensibility
60. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde is enormously witty and entertaining. Must read more of his work.)
61. Mansfield Park
62. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
63. To the Lighthouse (Never heard of it.)
64. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
65. Oliver Twist
66. Gulliver’s Travels
67. Les Misérables
68. The Corrections69. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
70. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time* (Loved this book.)
71. Dune
72. The Prince
73. The Sound and the Fury
74. Angela’s Ashes
75. A Confederacy of Dunces (I slogged through the whole thing. What a waste of time. Pulitzer? Genius? Not imho...)
76. A Short History of Nearly Everything (Really only natural history and physics and maybe chemistry. Nothing about literature or psychology or economics. But fun anyway.)
77. Dubliners78. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
79. Beloved
80. Slaughterhouse-Five*
81. The Scarlet Letter
82. Eats, Shoots & Leaves
83. The Mists of Avalon
84. Oryx and Crake (My note to myself after reading this book: No more Margaret Atwood for me.)
85. Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
86. Cloud Atlas (Never heard of it.)
87. The Confusion (Ditto.)
88. Lolita
89. Persuasion
90. Northanger Abbey
91. The Catcher in the Rye*
92. On the Road
93. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
94. Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
95. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
96. The Aeneid
97. Watership Down*98. Gravity’s Rainbow
99. The Hobbit*
100. White Teeth
101. Treasure Island
102. David Copperfield
103. The Three Musketeers right now.)
Shamelessly lifted from Carrie K.
I love lists like this because I read so much and because I am so disgustingly competitive. But I didn't compare my % read (57.3%) to Carrie's; that would be too rude, even for me, after taking the list from her blog. Thanks, Carrie!
