Courtesy of Neilbowers and Mad Bibiophile here on WordPress:
Neilbowers has consolidated lists of the top 100 best books from several different countries and has made a single top 100 based on the results. It’s a pretty comprehensive list, spanning various genres of literature, authors, subject matter, and time periods. I’ve bolded each book I’ve read on this list.
1. 1984 – George Orwell
2. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck
4. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
5. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
6. One Hundred Years Of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
7. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
8. Ulysses – James Joyce
9. On The Road Jack Kerouac
10. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
11. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
12. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
13. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
14. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
15. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
16. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
17. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
18. Animal Farm – George Orwell
19. Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
21. Lord Of The Flies – William Golding
22. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
23. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
24. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
27. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
28. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
29. Middlemarch – George Eliot
30. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
31. Dune – Frank Herbert
32. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
33. A Prayer For Owen Meany – John Irving
34. Watership Down – Richard Adams
35. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
36. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
37. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
38. Anne Of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
39. Emma – Jane Austen
40. Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
41. Beloved – Toni Morrison
42. Of Mice And Men – John Steinbeck
43. The Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
44. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
45. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
46. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
47. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
48. Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
49. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
50. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
51. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
52. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
53. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
54. The Count Of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
55. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
56. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
57. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
58. The Stand – Stephen King
59. Possession – A.S. Byatt
60. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
61. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
62. The Trial – Franz Kafka
63. I, Claudius – Robert Graves
64. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
65. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
66. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
67. The Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling
68. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
69. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
70. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
71. The Pillars Of The Earth – Ken Follett
72. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
73. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
74. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
75. An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
76. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
77. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
78. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
79. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
80. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemmingway
81. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
82. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
83. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
84. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
85. The Stranger – Albert Camus
86. Native Son – Richard Wright
87. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
88. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
89. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
90. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
91. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
92. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
93. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
94. Persuasion – Jane Austen
95. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
96. The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
97. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
98. Atonement – Ian McEwan
99. Light in August – William Faulkner
100. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
25 / 100 … Well, I guess that’s not too bad! How did you fare? 😉
Nice snow!
Oh, and that’s an interesting list too, although #46 throws the whole list into question 😉
I’ve read 36 so far.
Ed
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