So here they are. 100 books for 2011.
I realize this is a huge undertaking. I even realize that I may not complete this challenge by this time next year. But it is a good challenge for me and I'm very excited to begin. I just don't know which book to start with!!
I have gathered suggestions from several places, and this is what I've come up with. I'm still not completely sold on some of these, so suggestions are still welcome. There will probably even be edits to the list during the year. Who knows?
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 Sophie’s Choice- Willian Styron
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue – Neale Donald Walsch
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Clan of the Cave Bears- Jean M. Auel
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Cannery Row-John Steinbeck
16 The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
17 The Egyptian Book of the Dead – Raymond Faulkner
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 Grimm’s Fairytales - Brothers Grimm
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Steven Chbosky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 Pillars of the Earth- Ken Follet
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Girl With The Pearl Earring- Tracy Chevalier
36 Deception Point- Dan Brown
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Understanding Media – Marshall McLuhan
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 Interred with their Bones- Jennifer Lee Carrell
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Practical Magic- Alice Hoffman
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Beyond the Pasta- Mark Leslie
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
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 On Writing- Stephen King
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 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 People of the Book- Gerladine Brooks
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Way of the Peaceful Warrior- Dan Millman
88 The Eagle of the Ninth- Rosemary Sutcliff
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
91 Man and His Symbols - Carl G. Jung
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 Daughter of the Forest – Juliet Marilliner
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 The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Many P. Hall
99 A Christmas Journey - Anne Perry
100 Casting Off - Nicole R. Dickson
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