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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The Top 100 Classic Must Read Books

Hi, I’m a book lover-fanatic-bookessed person who loves to read. But i've only read a few of the books on my classics list, so I’ve made it my mission to read all these books regardless of how long it takes. So far

How well have you fared with your list? Let me know what books, I should add to mine.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

3. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

4. The Bible

5. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

6. 1984 - George Orwell

7. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

8. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

9. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

10. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

11. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

12. Middlemarch - George Eliot

13. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

14. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

15. Bleak House - Charles Dickens

16. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

17. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

18. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

20. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

21. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

22. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

23. Emma - Jane Austen

24. Persuasion - Jane Austen

25. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

26. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

27. Animal Farm - George Orwell

28. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

29. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

30. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

31. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

32. Lord of the Flies - William Golding X,

33. Atonement - Ian McEwan

34. Life of Pi - Yann Martel

35. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

36. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

37. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

38. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

39. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

40. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

41. The Secret History - Donna Tartt

42. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

43. On The Road - Jack Kerouac

44. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

45. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

46. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

47. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

48. Dracula - Bram Stoker

49. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

50. Ulysses - James Joyce

51. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

52. Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

53. The Color Purple - Alice Walker

54. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

55. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn

56. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

57. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

58. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

59. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie

60. Slaughtehouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut

61. The French Lieutant’s Woman – John Fowles

62. Beloved – Toni Morrison

63. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulker

64. Absalom,Absalom! – William Faulker

65. Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham

66. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

67. Orlando – Virginia Woolf

68. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

69. A Clock work Orange – Anthony Burgess

70. A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

71. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

72. Something Wick This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury

73. As I lay Dying – William Faulker

74. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller

75. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

76. The Call of the Wild – Jack London

77. Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

78. Light in August – William Faulker

79. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

80. My Antonia – Willa Cather

81. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

82. A Passage to India – E. M. Foster

83. An America Tradegy – Thedore Dreiser

84. The Scarlett Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne

85. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

86. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin – Mark Twain

87. Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H.Lawrence

88. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

89. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

90. 51. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X

91. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

92. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

93. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

94. Journey to The Center of the Earth – Jules Vernes

95. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

96. The Awakening - Kate Chopin

97. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

98. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

99. Song of Solomon -Toni Morrison

100. Native Son - by Richard Wright

Happy Reading!