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Monday, July 23, 2012

Post 42: Reading Goals

So I read a lot in the summer time, and I want to set a goal to read all the 'must read' books. The problem with this goal is that every site on the internet has a different opinion on what the 'must read' books are. I use the GoodReads app so I am going to rely on their list.

1-100 (of 525)
From GoodReads.com

1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Read in High School (1)
2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. 1984 - George Orwell Read in High School (2)
5. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
7. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
8. Animal Farm - George Orwell Read in High School (3)
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
10. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
11. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (#1- #3) - JRR Tolkien
12. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
13. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
14. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
16. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
17. Dracula - Bram Stoker
18. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Read in High School (4)
19. Lord of the Flies - William Golding Read in High School (5)
20. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare Read in High School (6)
21. Persuasion - Jane Austen
22. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
23. Emma - Jane Austen
24. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
25. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
26. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
27. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
28. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
29. Macbeth - William Shakespeare Read in High School (7)
30. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
31. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
32. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
33. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
34. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
35. The Odyssey - Homer
36. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Read in High School (8)
37. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
38. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
39. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
40. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - thomas Hardy
41. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
42. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
43. The Chronicles of Narnia (#1 - #7) - CS Lewis
44. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Read Summer '12 (9)
45. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
46. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
47. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Read in High School (10)
48. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
50. Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
51. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
52. Treasure Island - Robert Louise Stevenson
53. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
54. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Read in High School (11)
55. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
56. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
57. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
58. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
59. Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey & Villette - Emily Bronte
60. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
61. The Crucible - Arthur Miller Read in High School (12)
62. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck Read in High School (13)
63. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes Read in High School (14)
64. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
65. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
66. The Iliad - Homer
67. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
68. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
69. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
70. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
71. Watership Down - Richard Adams
72. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
73. The Outsiders - SE Hinton Read in High School (15)
74. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
75. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
76. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
77. Aesop's Fables - Aesop
78. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
79. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
80. The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories - Franz Kafza
81. The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories - Jack London
82. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emmuska Orczy
83. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
84. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
85. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
86. Walden & Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
87. Night - Elie Wiesel Read in High School (16)
88. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
89. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
90. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
91. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
92. George Eliot: Middlemarch - Silas Marner - Amos Barton - George Eliot
93. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
94. The Chosen - Chaim Potok
95. Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
96. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
97. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Read Summer '11 (17)
98. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
99. The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
100. The Godfather - Mario Puzo




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