Of the 100 Books Which Have You Read?

Stitches of Grace posted a list of 100 books that is recommended reading from the NEA. Below is the list. I’ve read 37 of these books. However, most of these books were read during my high school years. I read the Bible daily.

According to The Herald Tribune 25% of adults did not read even one book last year. I may not be reading books on the 100 list but I am reading. For this semester I have to read 16 books! Yikes. I won’t be reading anything else this semester. At least not officially. 

As an adult, I read (almost yearly) the following:

• Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
• The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
• Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
• Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

Books I’ve Read: Bolded books are ones I loved.

1. Watership Down – Richard Adams
2. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
3. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
4. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
5. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol
7. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 
8. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
9. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
10. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
11. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
12. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
13. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
14. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
15. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
16. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
17. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
18. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
19. Ulysses – James Joyce
20. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
21. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
22. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
23. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
24. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
25. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchel
26. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
27. Animal Farm – George Orwell
28. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
29. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (I’ve read about half of them.)
30. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (Hated this one.)
31. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
32. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
33. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
34. Dracula – Bram Stoker
35. The Bible
36. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
37. Charlotte’s Web – EB White

Books I Haven’t Read: Which ones do you suggest? Please don’t suggest Tolkien. I’ve tried to read The Hobbit 4 times and never made it past the first two chapters. The bolded books below are the ones I’d like to read.

1. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
2. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
3. Emma – Jane Austen
4. Persuasion – Jane Austen
5. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
6. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
7. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
8. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
9. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
10. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
11. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
12. Possession – AS Byatt
13. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
14. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
15. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
16. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
17. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
18. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
19. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
20. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
21. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
22. Middlemarch – George Eliott
23. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
24. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
25. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
26. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
27. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
28. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
29. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
30. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
31. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
32. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
33. Dune – Frank Herbert
34. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
35. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
36. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
37. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
38. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
39. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
41. Atonement – Ian McEwan
42. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
43. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
44. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
45. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
46. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
47. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
48. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
49. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
50. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
51. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
52. Complete Works of Shakespeare 
53. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
54. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
55. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
56. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
57. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
58. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
59. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
60. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
61. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
62. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
63. Germinal – Emile Zola

If you’d like, tell us what books you’ve read , would like to read and loved. I alphabatized the list. If you’d like to see the original list, go back to this post.