Off my list as of 04/2009 (I think I am the only person in the world who hasn’t yet read Harry Potter…):
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
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
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
170. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
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