Bookcrossing's Top 100 books
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jmc_bksTaken from Jay.
I've read 47 of the books. Bolded below.
1. THE LORD OF THE RINGS- J.R.R. Tolkien. I sat through all three movies. Does that count?
2. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD- Harper Lee. Love this book. And the movie.
3. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE- Jane Austen. Like P&P, but prefer Persuasion
4. The "Harry Potter" series- J.K. Rowling. Came late to the series, but like it./
5. JANE EYRE- Charlotte Bronte
6. THE HANDMAID'S TALE- Margaret Atwood. I’ve started and put this book down at least a half dozen
times. Finally finished, but I'm not sure it was worth the effort.
7. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY- Douglas Adams
8. 1984- George Orwell. High school reading list, but the details are hazy in my memory.
9. (tie)
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY- John Irving
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
11. (tie)
THE STAND- Stephen King
GONE WITH THE WIND- Margaret Mitchell. It was a romantic book when I read it as a teenager. Not so much now.
13. (tie)
LITTLE WOMEN- Louisa May Alcott
THE HOBBIT- J.R.R. Tolkien
15. (tie)
LIFE OF PI- Yann Martel. I keep checking this book out and returning it unread to the library.
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (book 1) – Lucy Maud Montgomery
16. THE NAME OF THE ROSE- Umberto Eco. Another high school reading list book.
17. (tie)
THE MISTS OF AVALON- Marion Zimmer Bradley
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE- J.D. Salinger
19. (tie)
WATERSHIP DOWN- Richard Adams
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH- Ken Follett
PERFUME- Patrick Suskind
22. (tie)
THE DAVINCI CODE- Dan Brown. I refuse.
THE LITTLE PRINCE- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
THE GRAPES OF WRATH- John Steinbeck
25. (tie)
FAHRENHEIT 451- Ray Bradbury
The Narnia Chronicles- C.S. Lewis
HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE (SORCERER'S STONE) - J.K. Rowling
HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN- J.K. Rowling
29. (tie)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS- Emily Bronte
DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL- Anne Frank
31. DUNE- Frank Herbert
32. (tie)
THE POISONWOOD BIBLE- Barbara Kingsolver
REBECCA- Daphne du Maurier
34. (tie)
PERSUASION- Jane Austen. My favorite JA book.
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA- Arthur Golden. Tried, couldn’t do it.
36. (tie)
THE GREAT GATSBY- F. Scott Fitzgerald
A WRINKLE IN TIME- Madeleine L'Engle
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE- C.S. Lewis
39. (tie)
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND- Lewis Carroll
LORD OF THE FLIES- William Golding
BRAVE NEW WORLD- Aldous Huxley
ANGELA'S ASHES- Frank McCourt
THE LOVELY BONES- Alice Sebold. In the TBR pile right now.
44. (tie)
THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS- Isabel Allende. In the TBR pile.
CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR- Jean M. Auel
ENDER'S GAME- Orson Scott Card
GOOD OMENS- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. In my TBR pile.
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ANIMAL FARM- George Orwell. Another high school reading list book that has faded into vague memory.
OF MICE AND MEN- John Steinbeck
THE COLOR PURPLE- Alice Walker
52. (tie)
THE NEVERENDING STORY- Michael Ende
FAUST- Johnann Wolfgang von Goethe
BLINDNESS- Jose Saramago
HAMLET- William Shakespeare
EAST OF EDEN- John Steinbeck
CHARLOTTE'S WEB- E. B. White
The "Little House" series- Laura Ingalls Wilder. Although I’m not sure I’ve read the entire series, I know I’ve read at least 3 of them.
59. (tie)
BRIDGET JONES' DIARY- Helen Fielding
SOPHIE'S WORLD- Jostein Gaarder
CATCH-22- Joseph Heller
THE SECRET HISTORY- Donna Tartt
63. (tie)
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING- Tracy Chevalier
MIDDLESEX- Jeffrey Eugenides
The "His Dark Materials" series- Phillip Pullman
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN- Betty Smith
67. (tie)
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY- Jane Austen
THE RED TENT- Anita Diamant
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO- Alexandre Dumas
AMERICAN GODS- Neil Gaiman
THE CIDERHOUSE RULES- John Irving
SHE'S COME UNDONE- Wally Lamb
WINNIE-THE-POOH- A.A. Milne
The "Anne of Green Gables" series- Lucy Maud Montgomery
NORTHERN LIGHTS/THE GOLDEN COMPASS- Phillip Pullman
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE- Anne Rice
ROMEO AND JULIET- William Shakespeare
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER- Mark Twain
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY- Oscar Wilde
THE SHADOW OF THE WIND- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
82. (tie)
EMMA- Jane Austen
GREAT EXPECTATIONS- Charles Dickens
A TALE OF TWO CITIES- Charles Dickens
FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE-STOP CAFE- Fannie Flagg
THE SCARLET LETTER- Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH- Norton Juster
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES- Sue Monk Kidd
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING- Milan Kundera
A FINE BALANCE- Rohinton Mistry
LAMB: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BIFF, CHRIST'S CHILDHOOD PAL- Christopher Moore
THE BELL JAR- Sylvia Plath
The "Discworld" series- Terry Pratchett
WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS- Wilson Rawls
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS- Arundhati Roy
WAR AND PEACE- Leo Tolstoy
97. (tie)
THE EYRE AFFAIR- Jasper Fforde
NEVERWHERE- Neil Gaiman
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES- Thomas Hardy
STEPPENWOLF- Herman Hesse
HIGH FIDELITY- Nick Hornby
ULYSSES- James Joyce
METAMORPHOSIS- Franz Kafka
ATONEMENT- Ian McEwan
LONESOME DOVE- Larry McMurtry
THE ENGLISH PATIENT- Michael Ondaatje
THE SHIPPING NEWS- E. Annie Proulx
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM- William Shakespeare
DRACULA- Bram Stoker
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN- Mark Twain
I've read 47 of the books. Bolded below.
1. THE LORD OF THE RINGS- J.R.R. Tolkien. I sat through all three movies. Does that count?
2. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD- Harper Lee. Love this book. And the movie.
3. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE- Jane Austen. Like P&P, but prefer Persuasion
4. The "Harry Potter" series- J.K. Rowling. Came late to the series, but like it./
5. JANE EYRE- Charlotte Bronte
6. THE HANDMAID'S TALE- Margaret Atwood. I’ve started and put this book down at least a half dozen
times. Finally finished, but I'm not sure it was worth the effort.
7. THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY- Douglas Adams
8. 1984- George Orwell. High school reading list, but the details are hazy in my memory.
9. (tie)
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY- John Irving
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
11. (tie)
THE STAND- Stephen King
GONE WITH THE WIND- Margaret Mitchell. It was a romantic book when I read it as a teenager. Not so much now.
13. (tie)
LITTLE WOMEN- Louisa May Alcott
THE HOBBIT- J.R.R. Tolkien
15. (tie)
LIFE OF PI- Yann Martel. I keep checking this book out and returning it unread to the library.
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (book 1) – Lucy Maud Montgomery
16. THE NAME OF THE ROSE- Umberto Eco. Another high school reading list book.
17. (tie)
THE MISTS OF AVALON- Marion Zimmer Bradley
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE- J.D. Salinger
19. (tie)
WATERSHIP DOWN- Richard Adams
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH- Ken Follett
PERFUME- Patrick Suskind
22. (tie)
THE DAVINCI CODE- Dan Brown. I refuse.
THE LITTLE PRINCE- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
THE GRAPES OF WRATH- John Steinbeck
25. (tie)
FAHRENHEIT 451- Ray Bradbury
The Narnia Chronicles- C.S. Lewis
HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE (SORCERER'S STONE) - J.K. Rowling
HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN- J.K. Rowling
29. (tie)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS- Emily Bronte
DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL- Anne Frank
31. DUNE- Frank Herbert
32. (tie)
THE POISONWOOD BIBLE- Barbara Kingsolver
REBECCA- Daphne du Maurier
34. (tie)
PERSUASION- Jane Austen. My favorite JA book.
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA- Arthur Golden. Tried, couldn’t do it.
36. (tie)
THE GREAT GATSBY- F. Scott Fitzgerald
A WRINKLE IN TIME- Madeleine L'Engle
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE- C.S. Lewis
39. (tie)
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND- Lewis Carroll
LORD OF THE FLIES- William Golding
BRAVE NEW WORLD- Aldous Huxley
ANGELA'S ASHES- Frank McCourt
THE LOVELY BONES- Alice Sebold. In the TBR pile right now.
44. (tie)
THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS- Isabel Allende. In the TBR pile.
CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR- Jean M. Auel
ENDER'S GAME- Orson Scott Card
GOOD OMENS- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. In my TBR pile.
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ANIMAL FARM- George Orwell. Another high school reading list book that has faded into vague memory.
OF MICE AND MEN- John Steinbeck
THE COLOR PURPLE- Alice Walker
52. (tie)
THE NEVERENDING STORY- Michael Ende
FAUST- Johnann Wolfgang von Goethe
BLINDNESS- Jose Saramago
HAMLET- William Shakespeare
EAST OF EDEN- John Steinbeck
CHARLOTTE'S WEB- E. B. White
The "Little House" series- Laura Ingalls Wilder. Although I’m not sure I’ve read the entire series, I know I’ve read at least 3 of them.
59. (tie)
BRIDGET JONES' DIARY- Helen Fielding
SOPHIE'S WORLD- Jostein Gaarder
CATCH-22- Joseph Heller
THE SECRET HISTORY- Donna Tartt
63. (tie)
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING- Tracy Chevalier
MIDDLESEX- Jeffrey Eugenides
The "His Dark Materials" series- Phillip Pullman
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN- Betty Smith
67. (tie)
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY- Jane Austen
THE RED TENT- Anita Diamant
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO- Alexandre Dumas
AMERICAN GODS- Neil Gaiman
THE CIDERHOUSE RULES- John Irving
SHE'S COME UNDONE- Wally Lamb
WINNIE-THE-POOH- A.A. Milne
The "Anne of Green Gables" series- Lucy Maud Montgomery
NORTHERN LIGHTS/THE GOLDEN COMPASS- Phillip Pullman
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE- Anne Rice
ROMEO AND JULIET- William Shakespeare
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER- Mark Twain
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY- Oscar Wilde
THE SHADOW OF THE WIND- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
82. (tie)
EMMA- Jane Austen
GREAT EXPECTATIONS- Charles Dickens
A TALE OF TWO CITIES- Charles Dickens
FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE-STOP CAFE- Fannie Flagg
THE SCARLET LETTER- Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH- Norton Juster
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES- Sue Monk Kidd
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING- Milan Kundera
A FINE BALANCE- Rohinton Mistry
LAMB: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BIFF, CHRIST'S CHILDHOOD PAL- Christopher Moore
THE BELL JAR- Sylvia Plath
The "Discworld" series- Terry Pratchett
WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS- Wilson Rawls
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS- Arundhati Roy
WAR AND PEACE- Leo Tolstoy
97. (tie)
THE EYRE AFFAIR- Jasper Fforde
NEVERWHERE- Neil Gaiman
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES- Thomas Hardy
STEPPENWOLF- Herman Hesse
HIGH FIDELITY- Nick Hornby
ULYSSES- James Joyce
METAMORPHOSIS- Franz Kafka
ATONEMENT- Ian McEwan
LONESOME DOVE- Larry McMurtry
THE ENGLISH PATIENT- Michael Ondaatje
THE SHIPPING NEWS- E. Annie Proulx
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM- William Shakespeare
DRACULA- Bram Stoker
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN- Mark Twain
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Date: 2006-04-19 12:59 pm (UTC)