I used to love to read when I was a child. I always had my head buried in some book or other, but since I hit secondary school and reading became tied up with studying - I really went off it. But...in the efforts of trying to replenish my diminishing vocabulary I have restarted reading. And rather than read mindless chick lit, I thought I would try some real classics. Feeling all cultured I downloaded myself the
Guardian's 100 Greatest Book's list. Now clearly this is a very subjective list and people who know things about books could most likely soend HOURS arguing about what should or should not be on it. But I figured it would do for now. There are some amazing free ebook resources out there like
this. The ones I have read so far are in green - as you can see I have a long way to go! I have also included ones that I have seen the film of...which again I know is a heinous sacrilege, but it sure makes me feel good to get more of them in green!
1. Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes
2. Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding
6. Clarissa Samuel Richardson
7. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
8. Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
11. Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 12. The Black Sheep Honore De Balzac
13. The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
14. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
15. Sybil Benjamin Disraeli
16. David Copperfield Charles Dickens 17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
18. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte 19. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
20. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 21. Moby-Dick Herman Melville
22. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
23. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
24. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis Carroll 25. Little Women Louisa M. Alcott 26. The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope
27. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 28. Daniel Deronda George Eliot 29. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
31. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 33. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
35. The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith
36. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
37. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers
38. The Call of the Wild Jack London 39. Nostromo Joseph Conrad
40. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 41. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
42. The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence
43. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
46. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
47. A Passage to India E. M. Forster
48. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. The Trial Franz Kafka 50. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway
51. Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine
52. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
53. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
56. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
57. The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford
58. The Plague Albert Camus
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 60. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett
61. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
62. Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor
63. Charlotte's Web E. B. White 64. The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 65. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
66. Lord of the Flies William Golding 67. The Quiet American Graham Greene
68 On the Road Jack Kerouac
69. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 70. The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
71. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
73. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
74. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carre
79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge
81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer
82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino
83. A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul
84. Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee
85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi
91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro
92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter Carey
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera
94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories Salman Rushdie
95. La Confidential James Ellroy
96. Wise Children Angela Carter
98. Northern Lights Philip Pullman 99. American Pastoral Philip Roth
100. Austerlitz W. G. Sebald
22 down..88 to go!!!
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