100 Books Before You Die

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?

1. 1. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
   2. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
   3. The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Judith Kerr
   4. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
   5. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen
   6. American Gods – Neil Gaiman
   7. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
   8. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
   9. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks
   10. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
   11. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
   12. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
   13. Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
   14. Noughts & Crosses – Malorie Blackman
   15. Atonement – Ian McEwan
   16. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
   17. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
   18. The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
   19. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
   20. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller and Howard Jacobson
   21. Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway
   22. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
   23. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
   24. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
   25. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
   26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
   27. Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
   28. Bad Science – Ben Goldacte
   29. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 – Sue Townsend
   30. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
   31. The Stand – Stephen King
   32. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
   33. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Maarquez and Gregory Rabassa
   34. The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
   35. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
   36. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
   37. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
   38. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
   39. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
   40. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
   41. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
   42. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
   43. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
   44. Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
   45. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
   46. A History of the World in 100 Objects – Neil MacGregor
   47. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China – Jung Chang
   48. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John le Carré
   49. Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
   50. The Hare With Amber Eyes – Edmund de Waal
   51. The Sense of an Ending – Julain Barnes
   52. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
   53. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
   54. I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
   55. The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
   56. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee MBE
   57. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
   58. London: The Biography – Peter Ackroyd
   59. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
   60. Long Walk To Freedom – Nelson Mandela
   61. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
   62. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien
   63. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
   64. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
   65. Knots and Crosses – Ian Rankin
   66. The Story of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson
   67. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
   68. Venice – Jan Morris
   69. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathon Swift
   70. Last Orders – Graham Swift
   71. London Fields – Martin Amis
   72. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
   73. The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear – Arthur Conan Doyle
   74. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
   75. The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson
   76. The Mill On The Floss – George Eliot
   77. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
   78. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
   79. The Commitments – Roffy Doyle
   80. A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
   81. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
   82. Dissolution – C. J. Sansom
   83. The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
   84. Winnie-the-Pooh – A. A. Milne
   85. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
   86. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
   87. Watership Down – Richard Adams
   88. Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz
   89. The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
   90. The Enchanted Wood – Enid Blyton
   91. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
   92. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
   93. My Man Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse
   94. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J. K. Rowling
   95. Watchmen – Dave Gibbons
   96. High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
   97. Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
   98. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
   99. Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
   100. 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