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So I am very bored today. And today is the day I steal things from friends' journals rather than thinking of something to write on my own. But hey, what are friends for, right?? Ha!
I thought this was an interesting list....
Bold means I've read it.
Underlined means I've read something by that author.
Italicized means I've read part of it.
1. The Bible
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
4. War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
5. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
9. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
10. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
11. Crime & Punishment by Dostoyevsky
12. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
13. Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
14. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (in middle school... don't think i read the whole thing)
15. The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne
16. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
17. Don Quixote by Cervantes
18. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
19. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
20. Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan
21. any P. G. Wodehouse title
22. Robinson Crusoe by DeFoe
23. The Iliad
24. Hamlet by Shakespeare
25. Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare
26. A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
27. Cry, the Beloved Country by Paton
28. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
29. Alexis de Tocqueville's book on America
30. The Federalist Papers
31. Essays of Montaigne
32. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
33. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
34. Beowulf
35. A Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
36. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Umm... Mrs. Dalloway?!)
37. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
38. The Wasteland by Eliot
39. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
40. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle
41. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
42. Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury
43. Animal Farm by Orwell
44. Atlas Shrugged by Rand
45. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
46. Silas Marner by George Eliot
47. Middlemarch by George Eliot
48. Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon
49. Foxe's Book of Martyrs by, well, Foxe
50. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
51. Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
52. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
53. Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
54. Catcher in the Rye by Salinger (I need to finish this...)
55. Separate Peace by Knowles
56. Emile by Rosseau
57. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Hardy
58. Richard III by Shakespeare
59. A Room with a View by Forster
60. Mansfield Park by Austen
61. The Giver by Lowry
62. Little Women by Alcott (I own a first edition... i'm afriad to touch it!)
63. The Secret Garden by Burnett
64. The Five Children & It by Nesbit
65. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
66. David Copperfield by Dickens
67. Our Mutual Friend by Dickens
68. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Dahl
69. Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God by Edwards
70. Brave New World by Huxley
71. Charlotte's Web by White
72. Gone with the Wind by Mitchell
73. Lord of the Flies by Golding
74. Brideshead Revisited by Waugh
75. The Man Who was Thursday by Chesterton
76. Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams
77. Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
78. Song of Roland - unknown
79. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
80. Divine Comedy - Dante
81. Paradise Lost - Milton
82. The Call of the Wild - London
83. Watership Down - Adams (Ahhh... GREAT book!)
84. A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
85. My Antonia - Cather
86. Moby Dick - Melville
87. Around the World in Eighty Days - Verne
88. The Jungle Book - Kipling
89. Kim - Kipling
90. Faust - Goethe
91. The Old Man & the Sea - Hemingway (This was torture to read in 7th grade.)
92. Life & Death in Shanghai - Cheng
93. anything by Poe
94. Arabian Nights
95. Grimm's Fairy Tales
96. Plato: Dialogues
97. Vanity Fair - Thackeray
98. any Oscar Wilde play
99. Walden - Thoreau
100. Tom Jones - Fielding
Where's Flannery?! My other two favorites are here, but not her.... :(