1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (twice)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (3 times to various groups of kids)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling (4 of them)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (multiple times)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (twice)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (twice)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (aloud twice and once to myself- and most of her other stuff as well- fam favorites were Eight cousins and Rose In Bloom)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (weirdest book he ever wrote)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (the vast majority)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (3 times to various audiences)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger( why is this one on the list?)
19 The Time Traveler's Wife
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (twice)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (once was enough)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (twice- it's the best thing he ever wrote)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (I liked his The Resurrection the best)
25 The Hitch Hiker'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 in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (also a read-aloud)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (3 times altogether)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (3 times- twice aloud from cover to cover)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (4 times to various kids)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (twice- her best in my book- read them all though)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis(why does this feel like a repeat?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (many read alouds)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (read this aloud too)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Dad read this)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (always meant to read this)
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (read them aloud multiple time aloud)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (hated this book)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
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 (big brother is watching you1)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
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
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (a serious downer)
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (ought to finish this some day)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (3 times aloud plus lots of her other stuff)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (an undoable task)
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (read almost all of them, many times aloud as well)
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (twice, really loved it)
80 Possession - AS Byatt-
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (countless times)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
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 (another read aloud many times)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (in french)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (read aloud twice)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (a bloody tale)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (read them all many times aloud)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (worth reading unabridged)
I find it very interesting that this list of important reads includes no non-fiction except the Bible- but then maybe they think the Bible is fiction too. Anyway, most of my reading for years has been non-fiction, but maybe I'll try a few of these I haven't read yet. Keep on reading! Mom
2 comments:
You know, I think that a better list would include the top 100 Authors and list some of their most prominent books. And for the Record, Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies really shouldn't be on anyone's top reads list, IMO.
I've read 49 of 'em, I guess I have to work on that
:( I'm not as smart as mother yet.
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