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My Full List of 100 (Updated) 3 years ago

I had a few on my list which were doubles and also a few which I only felt so-so about reading, so here’s my updated list with (hopefully) only one of each book. :o)

1. Zen and the Art of Motrocycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
2. Weapons of Mass Deception (Sheldon Rampton/John Stauber)
3. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
4. Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue (Marquis de Sade)
5. Talk to the Hand (Lynne Truss)
6. English Patient (Michael Ondaatjee)
7. No Logo (Naomi Klein)
8. A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
9. I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
10. The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
11. Angela’s Ashes (Frank Mc Court)
12. Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip Dick)
14. Our Lady Of The Flowers (Jean Genet)
15. The Social Contract (Rousseau)
16. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
17. The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
18. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres)
20. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
21. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
22. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
23. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
24. The Grapes Of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
25. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
26. Anne Of Green Gables (LM Montgomery)
27. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
28. The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
29. The Count Of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
30. Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
31. The Silmarillion (JRR Tolkien)
32. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
33. A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
34. Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer)
35. Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
36. Memoirs Of A Geisha (Arthur Golden)
37. A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
38. Ulysses (James Joyce)
39. Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
40. Wise Children (Angela Carter)
41. The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
42. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
43. Katherine (Anya Seton)
44. The Princess Diaries (Meg Cabot)
45. Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie)
46. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
47. The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)
48. The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)
49. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
50. The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
51. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
52. Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne)
53. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
54. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde)
55. The Beach (Alex Garland)
56. Faust (Goethe)
57. A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket)
58. 1984 (George Orwell)
59. The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
60. The Satanic Verses (Salmon Rushdie)
61. The Prophet (Khalil Gibran)
62. End Of An Affair (Graham Greene)
63. Collected poems (TS Eliot)
64. The Universe in a Single Atom (Dalai Lama)
65. The Iliad (Homer)
66. The Odyssey (Homer)
67. The Solitaire Mystery (Jostein Gaarder)
68. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
69. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint Exupery)
71. The Journals of Sylvia Plath (Sylvia Plath)
72. Zorba The Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis)
73. The Story of my Experiments with Truth (M K Gandhi)
74. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Joanne Greenburg)
75. The Second Sex (Simone de Beauvoir)
76. The Republic (Plato)
77. The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger)
79. Mother (Maxim Gorky)
80. A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
81. Death of a salesman (Arthur Miller)
82. The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)
83. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
84. Dracula (Bram Stoker)
85. The Day Of The Triffids (John Wyndham)
86. East Of Eden (John Steinbeck)
87. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
88. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
89. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
90. Papillon (Henri Charriere)
91. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)
92. Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
93. Charlotte’s Web (E. B. White)
94. Lorna Doone (R. D. Blackmore)
95. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
96. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
97. American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
98. Flowers In The Attic (Virginia Andrews)
99. The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans)
100. The Name Of The Rose (Umberto Eco)



Untitled 3 years ago

Once we’ve written our list, should we change the goal to “Read all the books on my list of 100”?



My Full List of 100 3 years ago

1. Zen and the Art of Motrocycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
2. The Beach (Alex Garland)
3. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
4. The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
5. Talk to the Hand (Lynne Truss)
6. English Patient (Michael Ondaatjee)
7. No Logo (Naomi Klein)
8. A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
9. I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
10. The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
11. Angela’s Ashes (Frank Mc Court)
12. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip Dick)
14. Neuromancer (William Gibson)
15. Dune (Frank Herbert)
16. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
17. The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
18. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres)
20. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
21. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
22. Great Expectations, (Charles Dickens)
23. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
24. The Grapes Of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
25. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
26. Anne Of Green Gables (LM Montgomery)
27. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
28. The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
29. The Count Of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
30. Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
31. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
32. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
33. A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
34. Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer)
35. Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
36. Memoirs Of A Geisha (Arthur Golden)
37. A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
38. Ulysses (James Joyce)
39. Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
40. On The Road (Jack Kerouac)
41. The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
42. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
43. Katherine (Anya Seton)
44. The Princess Diaries (Meg Cabot)
45. Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie)
46. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
47. The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)
48. The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)
49. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
50. The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
51. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott)
52. Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne)
53. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
54. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde)
55. The Beach (Alex Garland)
56. Faust (Goethe)
57. A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket)
58. Talk to the Hand (Lynne Truss)
59. The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
60. The Satanic Verses (Salmon Rushdie)
61. The Prophet (Khalil Gibran)
62. End of an affair (Graham Greene)
63. Collected poems (TS Eliot)
64. The Universe in a Single Atom (Dalai Lama)
65. The Iliad (Homer)
66. The Odyssey (Homer)
67. The Solitaire Mystery (Jostein Gaarder)
68. I know why the caged bird sings (Maya Angelou)
69. English Patient (Michael Ondaatjee)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint Exupery)
71. The Journals of Sylvia Plath
72. Zorba The Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis)
73. The Story of my Experiments with Truth (M K Gandhi)
74. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Joanne Greenburg)
75. The second sex (Simone de Beauvoir)
76. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
77. The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger)
79. Mother (Maxim Gorky)
80. Gone with the wind (Margaret Mitchell)
81. Death of a salesman (Arthur Miller)
82. The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)
83. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
84. Dracula (Bram Stoker)
85. The Day Of The Triffids (John Wyndham)
86. East Of Eden (John Steinbeck)
87. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
88. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
89. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
90. Papillon (Henri Charriere)
91. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)
92. Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
93. Charlotte’s Web (E. B. White)
94. Lorna Doone (R. D. Blackmore)
95. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
96. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
97. American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
98. Flowers In The Attic (Virginia Andrews)
99. The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans)
100. The Name Of The Rose (Umberto Eco)



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