The Reading List

The following, is a list of 100 books you must read before you die. I have scored out the ones I have read and in my life time, I hope to have accomplished the massive task of having read them all...

#1 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

#2 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

#3 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

#4 Harry Potter series by JK Rowling

#5 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

#6 The Diary of Anne Frank

#7 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

#8 1984 by George Orwell

#9 His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

#10 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

#11 Little Women by Louisa M Alcott

#12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

#13 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

#14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

#15 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

#16 The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

#17 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulk

#18 Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

#19 The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

#20 Middlemarch by George Eliot

#21 Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

#22 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

#23 Bleak House by Charles Dickens

#24 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

#25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

#27 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

#29 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

#30 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

#31 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

#32 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

#33 Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

#34 Emma by Jane Austen

#35 Persuasion by Jane Austen

#36 Complete Grimm's Faiytales

#37 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

#38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres

#39 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

#40 Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne

#41 Animal Farm by George Orwell

#42 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

#43 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving

#45 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

#46 Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

#47 Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

#48 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

#49 Lord of the Flies by William Golding

#50 Atonement by Ian McEwan

#51 Life of Pi by Yann Martel

#52 Dune by Frank Herbert

#53 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

#54 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

#55 A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

#56 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#57 A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

#58 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

#59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon

#60 Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#61 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

#62 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

#63 The Secret History by Donna Tartt

#64 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

#65 Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

#66 On The Road by Jack Kerouac

#67 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

#68 Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

#69 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

#70 Moby Dick by Herman Melville

#71 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

#72 Dracula by Bram Stoker

#73 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

#74 Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson

#75 Ulysses by James Joyce

#76 The Inferno by Dante

#77 Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

#78 Germinal by Emile Zola

#79 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

#80 Possession by AS Byatt

#81 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

#82 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

#83 The Color Purple by Alice Walker

#84 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

#85 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

#86 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

#87 Charlotte’s Web by EB White

#88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

#89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#90 The Faraway Tree Collection by Enid Blyton

#91 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

#92 The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#93 The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

#94 Watership Down by Richard Adams

#95 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

#96 A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

#97 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

#98 The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

#99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

#100 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo