Because everyone ranting about it made me curious...

[denny]

* read it
** own it

** 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
* 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
** 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
** 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
* 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling (but I wish I hadn't)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
* 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
** 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
** 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
* 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
** 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
* 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
* 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
* 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
* 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
** 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
** 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
** 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
* 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
** 39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
** 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
** 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
* 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
* 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
* 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
** 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
** 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
* 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton (I wish I still owned this, I seem to recall really liking it)
67. The Magus, John Fowles
** 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
** 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
** 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
* 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
* 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
* 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
** 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
** 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

So I've read about 1/3 of them, and own about 1/4 of them.

I do wish they'd roll series up into one entry on lists like that though - the Discworld books are well written, but they don't deserve to eat up half a dozen or more places on almost every 'top 100 books' list to come out lately.

On the subject of series - I said 'yes' to three random Harry Potter books, because I read the first three at someone else's house and found them so incredibly tedious that I haven't retained the titles (and can't be bothered to go look them up).

Comments

[anarquistador.livejournal.com]

I've thought about getting one of those "100 books you must read before you die"-type lists and working my way through it, but I figure there must be a fair few lists out there. How would I know which one was right for me? What if I wasted time reading books on one list when another would have been better? I think I'll put up an LJ post asking for suggestions. I think my friends could come up with a list of must-reads that would be better than one from Reader's Digest, or Oprah or some shit.