Now if you missed the previous post, you can catch up here. My total looks a little slim compared to Jen's but still I beat the predicted six. I will have to preface my numbers by saying that only about five of the books were my choice to read. The others were required reading in school but I still enjoyed them.
Except all of the Steinbeck books and unfortunately all of my teachers felt his very depressing books were necessary to my education. If you haven't read them, just skip them please unless you enjoy depressing books with unhappy endings, especially The Pearl and...well, really all of them. But honestly after typing this it makes me want to go to the library and check them out. I wonder if I'll still dislike them 20 years later?
So here's my list! Jen's are marked with an X, and mine have an & (and yes, I know it's an ampersand..so take that BBC!)
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen -X &
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien-
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte -X
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling-
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee – X &
6. The Bible – X &
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte – X
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell -X &
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman –
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens -X
Jen’s Total: 7 Pam’s Total: 4
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott – X &
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 – Sebastian Faulk -
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger – X &
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger - (on the wait list w/ my family)
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot-X
Jen’s Total: 3 Pam’s Total: 3
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell - &
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald -X &
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens -
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy -
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams -
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky-
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck - &
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – X &
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame -X
Jen’s Total:3 Pam’s Total: 4
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy –
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens -
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis -X
34. Emma – Jane Austen – X
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen -X
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis –X &
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini -X
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres -
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden -
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne –
Jen’s Total: 5 Pam’s Total: 1
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell – &
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown –
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving -
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins -
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery – X
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy - (think I read this in school but unsure)
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood -
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding – &
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan -
Jen’s Total: 1 Pam’s Total - 2
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel-
52. Dune – Frank Herbert -
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons -
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – X
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth -
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon –
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens - & (it was the best of times, it was the worst of times..sigh...)
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley - &
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–Mark Haddon –X
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
Jen’s Total: 2 Pam’s Total: 2
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck – &
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt –
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold – X
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas –
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac –
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy -
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding – X
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville -
Jen’s Total: 2 Pam’s Total: 1
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens -X
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker -
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett – X
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson -X
75. Ulysses – James Joyce -
76. The Inferno – Dante -
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome -
78. Germinal – Emile Zola -
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray -
80. Possession – AS Byatt -
Jen’s Total: 2 Pam’s Total: Goose egg
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens –
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell -
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker – X
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 -X &
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom -
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – X
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton -
Jen’s Total: 3 Pam’s Total: 1
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad –
92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks -
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams - &
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole -
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute -
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas -
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare – X (also unsure of this one)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl –
X 100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo –
Jen’s Total: 2 Pam’s Total: 1
Jen’s Final Total: 30/100
Pam’s Final Total: 19/100
I'm currently not reading any fluff trying to gear up for my College Comp class which starts on Tuesday!!! I'm so nervous!!!
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