My Favourite List

I love how the popularity of book lists never die. I found this list on fb, a couple of people were doing it, since books are awesome and all. I did this list a few years ago but I'm going to redo it again since I've read more books since then, plus I decided to post the list here so can refer back to it.


Bold=read

Italic=Will read soon


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen <-- "You have bewitched me mind body and soul." ROFL.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte <-- Horror, suspense and gothic all in one

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling <-- "You're a wizard Harry!"

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible <-- Half bolded because I've pretty much read all of it except the boring bits i.e. leviticus

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman <-- I heard this was a really good series

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens <-- SOOO boring, but Dickens is hillarious

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller <-- Never even heard of this

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare <-- Half bolded, somewhat getting there

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien <-- Will have to re-read b/c I found it boring the first time

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger <-- I HATE HOLDEN CAULFIELD

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger <-- Really good book, too bad the movie SUCKED

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot <-- George Eliot is AWESOME!! Read Silas Marner ppl.

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald <-- Is on my syllabus

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

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

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky <-- Only b/c author is Russian, I've been reading Russian formalist essays recently and I want to see what the hype is about

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll <-- Alice on Crack

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame <-- Who?

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma -Jane Austen <-- Actually can't remember whether I've read this or not

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen <-- Anne reminds me of me

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini <-- Good book, crappy ending

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden <-- I've read at least five times

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne <-- Tao of Pooh

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez <-- BEST BOOK EVER!

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery <-- Weird that I've never read this

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan <-- Blech. Crappy book.

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen <-- Was so-so. Watching the movie made it better for me since Hugh Grant was in it.

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon <-- THIS BOOK ANNOYED ME SOO MUCH! The main character is almost like Sheldon from BBT but the complete opposite.

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold <-- Got scammed into buying the book

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding <-- I prefer Princess Diaries

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker <-- On my syllabus

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce <-- Just because my proff always quotes James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante <-- Surprisingly, Tim Keller's view of Hell reminds me a lot of the Inferno. Only half bolded b/c I only read the first book.

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert <-- Will have to reread

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Ronald Dahl <-- Ronald was my childhood hero.

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


Boo, apparently I suck because I've only read about 26/100. Also, for a book list that's predominately English, Russian or French, with some variety in between, I'm surprised it left out Robinson Crusoe, Guilliver's Travels and Paradise Lost plus classic English poets like Donne and Wordsworth. This list is also lacking African, First Nation and Asian literature THEREFORE I deem this list unsuitable! (But since I already went through it and bolded stuff I'm still going to post it)


4 responses to “My Favourite List”

  1. Anna Karenina is a wonderful book!

  2. ^The ending is so tragic...

  3. It is! But I love the characters and the very raw depictions of their humanness. I love Levin! Oh! You can also apply the Myer's and Briggs personality test with the characters of this book. Apparently Levin is an INFP and Anna is an ENFJ or possibly an ESFJ. Cool stuff. Read the book asap Ann!

  4. I will! Maybe I'll read it during the winter break!

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