Book List!
It's a bit self-congratulatory, but I like the idea (plus, it's not as
if I've read most of these). Here's a bit of flattery (in the form of
imitation) for my friend Doctor Doctor (a.k.a. lockholm)
#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker (does seeing the play multiple times count?)
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchel
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles (Boo!)
#76 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck (Boo!)
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright (Boo!)
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Emile Jean by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Emile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Bold I've read. Italic I've read some. In all, 29 that I've read all the way. Out of 110, that's kind of sad. I mean, it's only 26%. 25 or 23% if you only count the first 100.
Okay, let's try the NAQT top frequency list:
HamletDramaWilliam Shakespeare160164 The TempestDramaWilliam Shakespeare161154 IliadPoemHomer8th century BC46 Moby-DickNovelHerman Melville185145 MacbethDramaWilliam Shakespeare160643 CandideNovelVoltaire175942 FaustPoemJohann Wolfgang von Goethe180841 OthelloDramaWilliam Shakespeare162241 A Midsummer Night's DreamDramaWilliam Shakespeare159541 Pride and PrejudiceNovelJane Austen181340 The Merchant of VeniceDramaWilliam Shakespeare159636 The Great GatsbyNovelF(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald192535 The Scarlet LetterNovelNathaniel Hawthorne185035 The Canterbury TalesPoemGeoffrey Chaucer138735 Pilgrim's ProgressReligiousJohn Bunyan167834 King LearDramaWilliam Shakespeare160534 OdysseyPoemHomer8th century BC33 The Divine ComedyPoemDante Alighieri131433 Romeo and JulietDramaWilliam Shakespeare159433 Billy Budd: ForetopmanNovelHerman Melville189133 Vanity FairNovelWilliam Makepeace Thackeray184832 Paradise LostPoemJohn Milton166732 Julius CaesarDramaWilliam Shakespeare159932 Little WomenNovelLouisa May Alcott186831 Twelfth NightDramaWilliam Shakespeare160131 A Doll's HouseDramaHenrik (Johan) Ibsen187931 AeneidPoemVirgil19 BC31 Our TownDramaThornton (Niven) Wilder193831 Much Ado about NothingDramaWilliam Shakespeare159830 War and PeaceNovelLeo (or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi) Tolstoy186530 Long Day's Journey Into NightDramaEugene (Gladstone) O'Neill195630 For Whom the Bell TollsNovelErnest (Miller) Hemingway194029 Jane EyreNovelCharlotte Brontë184729 Anna KareninaNovelLeo (or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi) Tolstoy187729 Heart of DarknessShort StoryJoseph Conrad190229 Les MisérablesNovelVictor(-Marie) Hugo186229 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?DramaEdward (Franklin) Albee196129 The JungleNovelUpton (Beall) Sinclair190628 1984NovelGeorge (Eric Arthur Blair) Orwell194828 Crime and PunishmentNovelFyodor (Mikhaylovich) Dostoyevsky186628 MedeaDramaEuripidesc. 431 BC28 A Tale of Two CitiesNovelCharles (John Huffam) Dickens185927 UlyssesNovelJames (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce192226 A Raisin in the SunDramaLorraine Hansberry195926 To Kill a MockingbirdNovelHarper Lee196025 Wuthering HeightsNovelEmily Brontë184725 A Farewell to ArmsNovelErnest (Miller) Hemingway192925 A Streetcar Named DesireDrama(Thomas Lanier) "Tennessee" Williams194725 The Taming of the ShrewDramaWilliam Shakespeare159325 ChicagoPoemCarl Sandburg191625 The Rape of the LockPoemAlexander Pope171425 The Rime of the Ancient MarinerPoemSamuel Taylor Coleridge179725 Catch-22NovelJoseph Heller196124 The Waste LandPoemT(homas) S(tearns) Eliot192224 LolitaNovelVladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov195524 The Catcher in the RyeNovelJ(erome) D(avid) Salinger195124 On the RoadNovelJack Kerouac195724 BeowulfPoemAnonymous8th century24 The Merry Wives of WindsorDramaWilliam Shakespeare160024 The Turn of the ScrewNovelHenry James189823 Of Mice and MenNovelJohn (Ernst) Steinbeck193723 The Sun Also RisesNovelErnest (Miller) Hemingway192623 Lyrical BalladsPoemWilliam Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge179823 Ode on a Grecian UrnPoemJohn Keats181923 IvanhoeNovelWalter Scott182022 David Copperfield NovelCharles (John Huffam) Dickens185022 Great ExpectationsNovelCharles (John Huffam) Dickens186122 One Hundred Years of SolitudeNovelGabriel García Márquez196722 Uncle Tom's CabinNovelHarriet Beecher Stowe185222 KimNovel(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling190122 A Clockwork OrangeNovelAnthony (John Anthony Burgess Wilson) Burgess196222 The CrucibleDramaArthur Miller195322 Measure for MeasureDramaWilliam Shakespeare160422 Oliver TwistNovelCharles (John Huffam) Dickens183821 The SeagullDramaAnton (Pavlovich) Chekhov189621 OresteiaSeriesAeschylusc. 458 BC21 BhagavadgitaReligiousUnknown200 BC to AD 20021 HowlPoemAllen Ginsberg195621 Eugene OneginPoemAleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin183321 Gulliver's TravelsNovelJonathan Swift172621 Slaughterhouse FiveNovelKurt Vonnegut, Jr.196921 Brave New WorldNovelAldous (Leonard) Huxley193220 The Grapes of WrathNovelJohn (Ernst) Steinbeck193920 Treasure IslandNovelRobert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson188320 Fathers and SonsNovelIvan (Sergeyevich) Turgenev186220 PygmalionDramaGeorge Bernard Shaw191220 The Sorrows of Young WertherNovelJohann Wolfgang von Goethe177420 Death of a SalesmanDramaArthur Miller194920 The Count of Monte CristoNovelAlexandre Dumas (père)184519 My AntoniaNovelWilla (Sibert) Cather191819 Finnegans WakeNovelJames (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce193919 Remembrance of Things PastNovelMarcel Proust191319 Peer GyntDramaHenrik (Johan) Ibsen186719 As You Like ItDramaWilliam Shakespeare159919 An American TragedyNovelTheodore (Herman Albert) Dreiser192519 Sense and SensibilityNovelJane Austen181119 RebeccaNovelDaphne du Maurier193818 Mourning Becomes ElectraDramaEugene (Gladstone) O'Neill193118 All the King's MenNovelRobert Penn Warren194618 The Cherry OrchardDramaAnton (Pavlovich) Chekhov190418
Well, 34 of them. Better. That's 34% - a full 8% increase.
#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker (does seeing the play multiple times count?)
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchel
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles (Boo!)
#76 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck (Boo!)
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright (Boo!)
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Emile Jean by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Emile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Bold I've read. Italic I've read some. In all, 29 that I've read all the way. Out of 110, that's kind of sad. I mean, it's only 26%. 25 or 23% if you only count the first 100.
Okay, let's try the NAQT top frequency list:
HamletDramaWilliam Shakespeare160164 The TempestDramaWilliam Shakespeare161154 IliadPoemHomer8th century BC46 Moby-DickNovelHerman Melville185145 MacbethDramaWilliam Shakespeare160643 CandideNovelVoltaire175942 FaustPoemJohann Wolfgang von Goethe180841 OthelloDramaWilliam Shakespeare162241 A Midsummer Night's DreamDramaWilliam Shakespeare159541 Pride and PrejudiceNovelJane Austen181340 The Merchant of VeniceDramaWilliam Shakespeare159636 The Great GatsbyNovelF(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald192535 The Scarlet LetterNovelNathaniel Hawthorne185035 The Canterbury TalesPoemGeoffrey Chaucer138735 Pilgrim's ProgressReligiousJohn Bunyan167834 King LearDramaWilliam Shakespeare160534 OdysseyPoemHomer8th century BC33 The Divine ComedyPoemDante Alighieri131433 Romeo and JulietDramaWilliam Shakespeare159433 Billy Budd: ForetopmanNovelHerman Melville189133 Vanity FairNovelWilliam Makepeace Thackeray184832 Paradise LostPoemJohn Milton166732 Julius CaesarDramaWilliam Shakespeare159932 Little WomenNovelLouisa May Alcott186831 Twelfth NightDramaWilliam Shakespeare160131 A Doll's HouseDramaHenrik (Johan) Ibsen187931 AeneidPoemVirgil19 BC31 Our TownDramaThornton (Niven) Wilder193831 Much Ado about NothingDramaWilliam Shakespeare159830 War and PeaceNovelLeo (or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi) Tolstoy186530 Long Day's Journey Into NightDramaEugene (Gladstone) O'Neill195630 For Whom the Bell TollsNovelErnest (Miller) Hemingway194029 Jane EyreNovelCharlotte Brontë184729 Anna KareninaNovelLeo (or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoi) Tolstoy187729 Heart of DarknessShort StoryJoseph Conrad190229 Les MisérablesNovelVictor(-Marie) Hugo186229 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?DramaEdward (Franklin) Albee196129 The JungleNovelUpton (Beall) Sinclair190628 1984NovelGeorge (Eric Arthur Blair) Orwell194828 Crime and PunishmentNovelFyodor (Mikhaylovich) Dostoyevsky186628 MedeaDramaEuripidesc. 431 BC28 A Tale of Two CitiesNovelCharles (John Huffam) Dickens185927 UlyssesNovelJames (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce192226 A Raisin in the SunDramaLorraine Hansberry195926 To Kill a MockingbirdNovelHarper Lee196025 Wuthering HeightsNovelEmily Brontë184725 A Farewell to ArmsNovelErnest (Miller) Hemingway192925 A Streetcar Named DesireDrama(Thomas Lanier) "Tennessee" Williams194725 The Taming of the ShrewDramaWilliam Shakespeare159325 ChicagoPoemCarl Sandburg191625 The Rape of the LockPoemAlexander Pope171425 The Rime of the Ancient MarinerPoemSamuel Taylor Coleridge179725 Catch-22NovelJoseph Heller196124 The Waste LandPoemT(homas) S(tearns) Eliot192224 LolitaNovelVladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov195524 The Catcher in the RyeNovelJ(erome) D(avid) Salinger195124 On the RoadNovelJack Kerouac195724 BeowulfPoemAnonymous8th century24 The Merry Wives of WindsorDramaWilliam Shakespeare160024 The Turn of the ScrewNovelHenry James189823 Of Mice and MenNovelJohn (Ernst) Steinbeck193723 The Sun Also RisesNovelErnest (Miller) Hemingway192623 Lyrical BalladsPoemWilliam Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge179823 Ode on a Grecian UrnPoemJohn Keats181923 IvanhoeNovelWalter Scott182022 David Copperfield NovelCharles (John Huffam) Dickens185022 Great ExpectationsNovelCharles (John Huffam) Dickens186122 One Hundred Years of SolitudeNovelGabriel García Márquez196722 Uncle Tom's CabinNovelHarriet Beecher Stowe185222 KimNovel(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling190122 A Clockwork OrangeNovelAnthony (John Anthony Burgess Wilson) Burgess196222 The CrucibleDramaArthur Miller195322 Measure for MeasureDramaWilliam Shakespeare160422 Oliver TwistNovelCharles (John Huffam) Dickens183821 The SeagullDramaAnton (Pavlovich) Chekhov189621 OresteiaSeriesAeschylusc. 458 BC21 BhagavadgitaReligiousUnknown200 BC to AD 20021 HowlPoemAllen Ginsberg195621 Eugene OneginPoemAleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin183321 Gulliver's TravelsNovelJonathan Swift172621 Slaughterhouse FiveNovelKurt Vonnegut, Jr.196921 Brave New WorldNovelAldous (Leonard) Huxley193220 The Grapes of WrathNovelJohn (Ernst) Steinbeck193920 Treasure IslandNovelRobert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson188320 Fathers and SonsNovelIvan (Sergeyevich) Turgenev186220 PygmalionDramaGeorge Bernard Shaw191220 The Sorrows of Young WertherNovelJohann Wolfgang von Goethe177420 Death of a SalesmanDramaArthur Miller194920 The Count of Monte CristoNovelAlexandre Dumas (père)184519 My AntoniaNovelWilla (Sibert) Cather191819 Finnegans WakeNovelJames (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce193919 Remembrance of Things PastNovelMarcel Proust191319 Peer GyntDramaHenrik (Johan) Ibsen186719 As You Like ItDramaWilliam Shakespeare159919 An American TragedyNovelTheodore (Herman Albert) Dreiser192519 Sense and SensibilityNovelJane Austen181119 RebeccaNovelDaphne du Maurier193818 Mourning Becomes ElectraDramaEugene (Gladstone) O'Neill193118 All the King's MenNovelRobert Penn Warren194618 The Cherry OrchardDramaAnton (Pavlovich) Chekhov190418
Well, 34 of them. Better. That's 34% - a full 8% increase.