Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Books of 2013

Well, I think I'm just going to admit defeat and say that I am not capable of keeping a regularly updated blog, in any form. Furthermore, it seems nearly impossible for me to take the time to review each of the books that I've read. So, for now, until I can figure out how to discipline myself in this, I will just list the books I've read in 2013, and perhaps my own rating on a 1-5 (1=love it, 5=didn't love it) scale, and edit as the rest of the year progresses. Here goes:


  1. The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz (1.5)
  2. Specials - Scott Westerfeld (1)
  3. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan (1)
  4. The Beautiful Mystery - Louise Penny (2)
  5. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (3)
  6. Scarlet - Marissa Meyer (1.5)
  7. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (1)
  8. Kisses From Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption - Katie Davis (2)
  9. Butter Cream - Denise Roig (1)
  10. Snap Happy - Fiona Walker (2.5)
  11. Fat Chance - Julie Hadden
  12. Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs (3)
  13. Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick (3)
  14. The Painted Girls - Cathy Marie Buchanan (1.5)
  15. The Imposter Bride - Nancy Richler (4)
  16. Eve & Adam - Michael Grant & Katherine Applegate (1)
  17. Extras - Scott Westerfeld (2)
  18. Pink Slip Party - Cara Lockwood
  19. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce (2.5)
  20. Confessions of a Pregnant Princess - Swan Adamson (3)
  21. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (1.5)
  22. Sheer Dynamite - Jennifer Skully (2)
  23. Arranged - Catherine McKenzie (1)
  24. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender (1.5)
  25. The Summer of Us - Holly Chamberlin
  26. Spin - Catherine McKenzie (3)
  27. Hidden - Catherine McKenzie (3)
  28. Arcadia - Lauren Groff (2)
I also read 2 books in digital format: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

Friday, April 5, 2013

July - December 2012

I'm just going to list the rest of the books I read in 2012 and get it done with... I wanted to write a bit of a description about each book I read, but it's been too long for some of them, and I've gotten rid of some, so... I'm not going to.

The Last Song - Nicolas Sparks
An Atlas of Impossible Longing - Anuradha Roy
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
We Bought a Zoo - Benjamin Mee
The Red Hat Club - Haywood Smith
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Rise of Nine - Pittacus Lore
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
The Story of Beautiful Girl - Rachel Simon
Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Trick of the Light - Louise Penny
Eight Minutes Idle - Matt Thorne
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
The Wrong Boy - Willy Russell
My Name is Memory - Ann Brashares
Uglies- Scott Westerfeld
Secret Daughter - Shilpi Somaya Gowda
The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
The Soldier's Wife - Joanna Trollope
The Mother-Daughter Book Club - Heather Vogel Frederick
Mating Rituals of the North American Wasp - Lauren Lipton
Room - Emma Donaghue
Pretties - Scott Westerfeld

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Rory Gilmore Book Challenge

List of the books Rory mentions reading in the Gilmore Girls series.

  1. 1984 - George Orwell
  2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  3. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
  5. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
  6. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
  7. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
  9. Archidamian War - Donald Kagen
  10. The Art of Fiction - Henry James
  11. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
  12. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
  13. Atonement - Ian McEwan
  14. Autobiography of a Face - Lucy Grealy
  15. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
  16. Babe - Dick King-Smith
  17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women - Susan Faludi
  18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
  19. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
  20. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  21. Beloved - Toni Morrison
  22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation - Seamus Heaney
  23. The Bhagava Gita
  24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews - Peter Duffy
  25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women - Elizabeth Wurtzel
  26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays - Mary McCarthy
  27. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  28. Brick Lane - Monica Ali
  29. Bridgadoon - Alan Jay Lerner
  30. Candide - Voltaire
  31. The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
  32. Carrie - Stephen King
  33. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  34. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
  35. Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White
  36. The Children’s Hour - Lillian Hellman
  37. Christine - Stephen King
  38. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  39. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  40. The Code of the Woosters - P.G. Wodehouse
  41. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty - Eudora Welty
  42. A Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
  43. Complete Novels - Dawn Powell
  44. The Complete Poems - Anne Sexton
  45. Complete Stories - Dorothy Parker
  46. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
  47. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas père
  48. Cousin Bette - Honor’e de Balzac
  49. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  50. The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber
  51. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
  52. Cujo - Stephen King
  53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
  54. Daisy Miller - Henry James
  55. Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
  56. David and Lisa - Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
  57. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  58. The Da Vinci -Code - Dan Brown
  59. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
  60. Demons - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  61. Death of a Salesman -Arthur Miller
  62. Deenie - Judy Blume
  63. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson
  64. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band - Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
  65. The Divine Comedy - Dante
  66. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
  67. Don Quijote - Cervantes
  68. Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhrv
  69. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
  70. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
  71. Eleanor Roosevelt - Blanche Wiesen Cook
  72. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
  73. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters - Mark Dunn
  74. Eloise - Kay Thompson
  75. Emily the Strange - Roger Reger
  76. Emma - Jane Austen
  77. Empire Falls - Richard Russo
  78. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective - Donald J. Sobol
  79. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
  80. Ethics - Spinoza
  81. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 - Rick Steves
  82. Eva Luna - Isabel Allende
  83. Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
  84. Extravagance - Gary Krist
  85. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  86. Fahrenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore
  87. The Fall of the Athenian Empire - Donald Kagan
  88. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World - Greg Critser
  89. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
  90. The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien
  91. Fiddler on the Roof - Joseph Stein
  92. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
  93. Finnegan’s Wake - James Joyce
  94. Fletch - Gregory McDonald
  95. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
  96. The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
  97. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
  98. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  99. Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger
  100. Freaky Friday - Mary Rodgers
  101. Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
  102. Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
  103. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President - Jacob Weisberg
  104. Gidget - Fredrick Kohner
  105. Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
  106. The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels
  107. The Godfather: Book 1 - Mario Puzo
  108. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  109. Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Alvin Granowsky
  110. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  111. The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford
  112. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
  113. The Graduate - Charles Webb
  114. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  115. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  116. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  117. The Group - Mary McCarthy
  118. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  119. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
  120. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J. K. Rowling
  121. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
  122. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  123. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
  124. Henry IV, part I - William Shakespeare
  125. Henry IV, part II - William Shakespeare
  126. Henry V - William Shakespeare
  127. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
  128. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
  129. Holidays on Ice: Stories - David Sedaris
  130. The Holy Barbarians - Lawrence Lipton
  131. House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
  132. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
  133. How to Breathe Underwater - Julie Orringer
  134. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Seuss
  135. How the Light Gets In - M. J. Hyland
  136. Howl - Allen Gingsburg
  137. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
  138. The Iliad - Homer
  139. I’m with the Band - Pamela des Barres
  140. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  141. Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
  142. Iron Weed - William J. Kennedy
  143. It Takes a Village - Hillary Clinton
  144. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
  145. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
  146. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
  147. The Jumping Frog - Mark Twain
  148. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
  149. Just a Couple of Days - Tony Vigorito
  150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar - Robert Alexander
  151. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  152. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover - D. H. Lawrence
  153. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 - Gore Vidal
  154. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  155. The Legend of Bagger Vance - Steven Pressfield
  156. Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
  157. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
  158. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken
  159. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  160. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
  161. Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
  162. The Little Locksmith - Katharine Butler Hathaway
  163. The Little Match Girl - Hans Christian Andersen
  164. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  165. Living History - Hillary Rodham Clinton
  166. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  167. The Lottery: And Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
  168. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
  169. The Love Story - Erich Segal
  170. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
  171. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  172. The Manticore - Robertson Davies
  173. Marathon Man - William Goldman
  174. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
  175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - Simone de Beauvoir
  176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman - William Tecumseh Sherman
  177. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
  178. The Meaning of Consuelo - Judith Ortiz Cofer
  179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy - H. R. Mencken
  180. The Merry Wives of Windsro - William Shakespeare
  181. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
  182. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
  183. The Miracle Worker - William Gibson
  184. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion - Jim Irvin
  186. Moliere: A Biography - Hobart Chatfield Taylor
  187. A Monetary History of the United States - Milton Friedman
  188. Monsieur Proust - Celeste Albaret
  189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister - Julie Mars
  190. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
  191. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  192. Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
  193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath - Seymour M. Hersh
  194. My Life as Author and Editor - H. R. Mencken
  195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru - Tim Guest
  196. My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
  197. The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
  198. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
  199. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
  200. The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin
  201. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature - Jan Lars Jensen
  202. New Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson
  203. The New Way Things Work - David Macaulay
  204. Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
  205. Night - Elie Wiesel
  206. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
  207. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara . Johnson, John P. McGowan
  208. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born - Dawn Powell
  209. Notes of a Dirty Old Man - Charles Bukowski
  210. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  211. Old School - Tobias Wolff
  212. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  213. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  214. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  215. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
  216. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  217. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life - Amy Tan
  218. Oracle Night - Paul Auster
  219. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
  220. Othello - Shakespeare
  221. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
  222. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War - Donald Kagan
  223. Out of Africa - Isac Dineson
  224. The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
  225. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
  226. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition - Donald Kagan
  227. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
  228. Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
  229. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  230. Pigs at the Trough - Arianna Huffington
  231. Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
  232. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
  233. The Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
  234. The Portable Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker
  235. The Portable Nietzche - Fredrich Nietzche
  236. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill - on Suskind
  237. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  238. Property - Valerie Martin
  239. Pushkin: A Biography - T. J. Binyon
  240. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
  241. Quattrocento - James Mckean
  242. A Quiet Storm - Rachel Howzell Hall
  243. Rapunzel - Grimm Brothers
  244. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
  245. The Razor’s Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
  246. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi
  247. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  248. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin
  249. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
  250. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad - Virginia Holman
  251. The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien
  252. R Is for Ricochet - Sue Grafton
  253. Rita Hayworth - Stephen King
  254. Robert’s Rules of Order - Henry Robert
  255. Roman Fever - Edith Wharton
  256. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
  257. A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
  258. A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
  259. Rosemary’s Baby - Ira Levin
  260. Sacred Time - Ursula Hegi
  261. Sanctuary - William Faulkner
  262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay - Nancy Milford
  263. The Scarecrow of Oz - Frank L. Baum
  264. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  265. Seabiscuit: An American Legend - Laura Hillenbrand
  266. The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
  267. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
  268. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette - Judith Thurman
  269. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 - Dawn Powell
  270. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  271. A Separate Peace - John Knowles
  272. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
  273. Sexus - Henry Miller
  274. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  275. Shane - Jack Shaefer
  276. The Shining - Stephen King
  277. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
  278. S Is for Silence - Sue Grafton
  279. Slaughter-house Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  280. Small Island - Andrea Levy
  281. Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
  282. Snow White and Rose Red - Grimm Brothers
  283. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
  284. The Song of Names - Norman Lebrecht
  285. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos - Julia de Burgos
  286. The Song Reader - Lisa Tucker
  287. Songbook - Nick Hornby
  288. The Sonnets - William Shakespeare
  289. Sonnets from the Portuegese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  290. Sophie’s Choice - William Styron
  291. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
  292. Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
  293. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
  294. The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
  295. A Streetcar Named Desiree - Tennessee Williams
  296. Stuart Little - E. B. White
  297. Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  298. Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust
  299. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals - Anne Collett
  300. Sybil - Flora Rheta Schreiber
  301. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  302. Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  303. Term of Endearment - Larry McMurtry
  304. Time and Again - Jack Finney
  305. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
  306. To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
  307. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  308. The Tragedy of Richard III - William Shakespeare
  309. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
  310. The Trial - Franz Kafka
  311. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters - Elisabeth Robinson
  312. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship - Ann Patchett
  313. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
  314. Ulysses - James Joyce
  315. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 - Sylvia Plath
  316.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
  317. Unless - Carol Shields
  318. Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
  319. The Vanishing Newspaper - Philip Meyers
  320. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - in progress
  321. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) - Joe Harvard
  322. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
  323. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
  324. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
  325. Walt Disney’s Bambi - Felix Salten
  326. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  327. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited - Daniel Sinker
  328. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 - Richard Nelson Bolles
  329. What Happened to Baby Jane - Henry Farrell
  330. When the Emperor Was Divine - Julie Otsuka
  331. Who Moved My Cheese - Spencer Johnson
  332. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edward Albee
  333.  Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
  334. The Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum
  335. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
  336. The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  337. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
  338. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Tool

BBC Book Challenge

Found this list posted at my local new/used bookstore in December and got a copy - thought I'd see how many I've read, and how long it would take me to complete the list! :) (There's supposed to be 100, but there are only 99)

The BBC reckons most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. Let's prove them wrong.

  1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
  3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  6. The Bible
  7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
  9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
  10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
  14. Complete works of Shakespeare
  15. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
  17. Birdsong - Sebastien Faulks
  18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
  19. The Time Traveler's Wife -
  20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
  21. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
  23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
  24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  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
  30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
  34. Persuasion - Jane Austen
  35. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
  38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
  40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
  44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
  45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
  46. Far From the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy
  47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
  50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  51. Dune - Frank Herbert
  52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
  53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
  55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  56. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
  59. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
  60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  63. The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
  64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  65. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
  67. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
  68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
  69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
  72. The Secret Garden - Grances Hodgson Burnett
  73. Notes From a Small Island- Bill Bryson
  74. Ulysses - James Joyce
  75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
  77. Germinal - Emile Zola
  78. Vanity Fair - Thackeray - in progress
  79. Possession - AS Byatt
  80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
  83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
  84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
  86. Charlotte's Web - EB White
  87. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Alborn
  88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
  90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  91. The Little Prince - Antoine - de Saint-Exupery
  92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
  93. Watership Down - Richard Adam
  94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
  95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
  96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  97. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
  99. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo