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Well, with yesterday being National Book Lovers Day, I decided to browse online shops for some new books for my shelf/drawer. I tend to always start my researching what’s popular at the minute and so an article on amazon.co.uk caught my attention. 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime sounded interesting, and so I decided to have a look and see how many of them I had read. How many have you read?
- To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Judith Kerr
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen
- American Gods – Neil Gaiman
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
- Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Noughts & Crosses – Malorie Blackman
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
- In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller and Howard Jacobson
- Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway
- Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
- Bad Science – Ben Goldacte
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 – Sue Townsend
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- The Stand – Stephen King
- American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Maarquez and Gregory Rabassa
- The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
- The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
- Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
- Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
- Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
- A History of the World in 100 Objects – Neil MacGregor
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China – Jung Chang
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John le Carré
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- The Hare With Amber Eyes – Edmund de Waal
- The Sense of an Ending – Julain Barnes
- White Teeth – Zadie Smith
- Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
- I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
- The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
- Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee MBE
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- London: The Biography – Peter Ackroyd
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Long Walk To Freedom – Nelson Mandela
- Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien
- To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
- Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
- Knots and Crosses – Ian Rankin
- The Story of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson
- The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
- Venice – Jan Morris
- Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathon Swift
- Last Orders – Graham Swift
- London Fields – Martin Amis
- Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
- The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
- The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson
- The Mill On The Floss – George Eliot
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- The Commitments – Roffy Doyle
- A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Dissolution – C. J. Sansom
- The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
- Winnie-the-Pooh – A. A. Milne
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Watership Down – Richard Adams
- Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
- The Enchanted Wood – Enid Blyton
- Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
- My Man Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J. K. Rowling
- Watchmen – Dave Gibbons
- High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
- Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
- Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
- The Worst Witch – Jill Murphy
So there you have it! I’ve read 24. That’s not too bad really, how about you?
Ktkinnes xx
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beautifuldays2016
As a bookworm myself, I absolutely love this! I’ve read 16 of those books but a lot of them I have and haven’t got round to reading them yet lol I’m on a reading challenge now so I’ll add these to next years challenge x
ktkinnes
Wow actually 16 books from the list is pretty damn impressive! I’ve now decided I want to be able to tick off at least one a year over the next few years. Are you on goodreads? I’d love to be able to add you as a friend on it! xx
beautifuldays2016
Yes I am on goodreads but I don’t use it much these days, feel free to add me on it though, I’ll have to work out how to do that lol definitely not technically minded xx