Read 100 classic novels
The List...

1. I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith (a few years ago)
2. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
3. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy (3/6/2010)
4. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier (5/10/11)
5. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
6. The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger (18/5/2010)
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (19/4/12)
8. The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkein
9. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
10. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
11. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde (20/3/10)
12. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (20/2/11)
13. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
14. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
15. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
16. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
17. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
18. City of God – Paulo Lins (27/8/10)
19. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
20. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
21. Paradise Lost – John Milton
22. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (5/2/12)
23. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
24. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll
25. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (23/8/10)
26. Dracula – Bram Stoker
27. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (a few years ago)
28. Animal Farm – George Orwell (a few years ago)
29. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
30. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
31. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
32. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (19/6/10)
33. Lord of the Flies – William Golding (17/1/09)
34. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
35. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
36. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (a couple of years ago)
37. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D. H. Lawrence (4/1/11)
38. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller (21/7/11)
39. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
40. 1984 – George Orwell
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. Ulysses – James Joyce
43. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
44. A Room with a View – E. M. Forster
45. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
46. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks (4/2/12)
47. Atonement – Ian McEwan
48. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
49. Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne (26/5/12)
50. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
51. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming (23/5/12)
52. War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
53. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
54. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
55. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
56. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
57. A Passage to India – E. M. Forster
58. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
59. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
60. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
61. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
62. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
63. Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie
64. A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
65. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
66. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
67. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (29/1/12)
68. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
69. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
70. Life of Pi – Yann Martel (13/2/10)
71. The Iliad – Homer
72. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
73. I, Claudius – Robert Graves
74. Howard’s End – E. M. Forster (3/10/11)
75. Emma – Jane Austen
76. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
77. The Crucible – Arthur Miller
78. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
79. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
80. The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
81. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
82. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemmingway
83. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
84. Sons and Lovers – D. H. Lawrence
85. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
86. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
87. Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
88. On the Road – Jack Kerouac (4/5/12)
89. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
90. The Railway Children – E. Nesbit
91. The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
92. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
93. Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
94. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
95. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
96. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James (25/9/11)
97. Middlemarch – George Eliot
98. The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighiery
99. Tales of Mystery and Imagination – Edgar Allen Poe
100. The Age of Reason – Jean-Paul Sartre

Green books are finished. Red books are currently being read.



Comments:

ProzacMuffin Bleeeeh...

Good list!

It’s amazing how much of literature is depressing…
I’ve read…
8. The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien (great book!)
33. Lord of the Flies – William Golding (also great book)
53. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne (well written but not necessarily gripping book. The descriptions of scenes are very well fleshed out.)
60. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes (very good and depressing)
74. The Color Purple – Alice Walker (very bad and depressing. Poorly written and thought out. Might I suggest The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas? Now that’s a fantastic book! :D)
80. The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank (very good book. Sad and intriguing)
86. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton (okay book. It kinda gets your hopes up that something exciting will happen… but it never does. :( )
29. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (good book. Well written.)

And I started to read but never finished…
40. 1984 – George Orwell (got lost in the terminology)
45. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner (Got through 20 pages of this nonsensical book and a whole page and a half of no punctuation before I realized.. this book sucks!)
11. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde (just forgot about it :( )
56. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (good but depressing. I was almost halfway through when I just kinda lost interest. I do want to read it though.)

So there are my reviews. Hope that helps with your future selection. :)

Haha I know! Pretty much why I stick to mainstream fiction most of the time :P And thus the reason I figured this would be a good idea :L

City of God’s really not impressing me at the moment, if you ever consider reading that, and thanks for your warning about The Color Purple!

You should really try The Picture of Dorian Grey if you remember – I thought it was really good, and it’s also quite strange reading it and seeing most of Wilde’s most famous quotations there :)


 

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