{"id":1302,"date":"2009-02-26T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2009-02-26T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T07:54:00","slug":"100-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"100 books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You copy the list and put an x for the ones that you have read.<br \/>Average is 6 out of this 100, according to the BBC&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1 Pride and Prejudice &#8211; Jane Austen (x)<br \/>2 The Lord of the Rings &#8211; JRR Tolkien (x)<br \/>3 Jane Eyre &#8211; Charlotte Bronte (x)<br \/>4 Harry Potter series &#8211; JK Rowling (x)<br \/>5 To Kill a Mockingbird &#8211; Harper Lee ()<br \/>6 The Bible &#8211; (x)<br \/>7 Wuthering Heights &#8211; Emily Bronte (x )<br \/>8 Nineteen Eighty Four &#8211; George Orwell (x)<br \/>9 His Dark Materials &#8211; Philip Pullman (x)<br \/>10 Great Expectations &#8211; Charles Dickens (x)<br \/>11 Little Women &#8211; Louisa M Alcott ()<br \/>12 Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles &#8211; Thomas Hardy (X)<br \/>13 Catch 22 &#8211; Joseph Heller ( x)<br \/>14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (x)<br \/>15 Rebecca &#8211; Daphne Du Maurier ()<br \/>16 The Hobbit &#8211; JRR Tolkien (x)<br \/>17 Birdsong &#8211; Sebastian Faulk ()<br \/>18 Catcher in the Rye &#8211; JD Salinger (x )<br \/>19 The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife &#8211; Audrey Niffenegger ()<br \/>20 Middlemarch &#8211; George Eliot (x)<br \/>21 Gone With The Wind &#8211; Margaret Mitchell ()<br \/>22 The Great Gatsby &#8211; F Scott Fitzgerald ()<br \/>23 Bleak House &#8211; Charles Dickens (x)<br \/>24 War and Peace &#8211; Leo Tolstoy ( )<br \/>25 The Hitch Hiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy &#8211; Douglas Adams (x)<br \/>26 Brideshead Revisited &#8211; Evelyn Waugh (x)<br \/>27 Crime and Punishment &#8211; Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x)<br \/>28 Grapes of Wrath &#8211; John Steinbeck ()<br \/>29 Alice in Wonderland &#8211; Lewis Carroll (x)<br \/>30 The Wind in the Willows &#8211; Kenneth Grahame (x)<br \/>31 Anna Karenina &#8211; Leo Tolstoy (x)<br \/>32 David Copperfield &#8211; Charles Dickens (x)<br \/>33 Chronicles of Narnia &#8211; CS Lewis (x)<br \/>34 Emma &#8211; Jane Austen (x)<br \/>35 Persuasion &#8211; Jane Austen (x)<br \/>36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe &#8211; CS Lewis (x)<br \/>37 The Kite Runner &#8211; Khaled Hosseini ( )<br \/>38 Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin &#8211; Louis De Bernieres (x)<br \/>39 Memoirs of a Geisha &#8211; Arthur Golden ()<br \/>40 Winnie the Pooh &#8211; AA Milne (x)<br \/>41 Animal Farm &#8211; George Orwell (X)<br \/>42 The Da Vinci Code &#8211; Dan Brown (x)<br \/>43 One Hundred Years of Solitude &#8211; Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()<br \/>44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney &#8211; John Irving (x)<br \/>45 The Woman in White &#8211; Wilkie Collins ()<br \/>46 Anne of Green Gables &#8211; LM Montgomery ()<br \/>47 Far From The Madding Crowd &#8211; Thomas Hardy (x)<br \/>48 The Handmaid\u2019s Tale &#8211; Margaret Atwood ()<br \/>49 Lord of the Flies &#8211; William Golding (x)<br \/>50 Atonement &#8211; Ian McEwan (x)<br \/>51 Life of Pi &#8211; Yann Martel (x)<br \/>52 Dune &#8211; Frank Herbert (x)<br \/>53 Cold Comfort Farm &#8211; Stella Gibbons ()<br \/>54 Sense and Sensibility &#8211; Jane Austen (x )<br \/>55 A Suitable Boy &#8211; Vikram Seth ( )<br \/>56 The Shadow of the Wind &#8211; Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( )<br \/>57 A Tale Of Two Cities &#8211; Charles Dickens (x)<br \/>58 Brave New World &#8211; Aldous Huxley (x )<br \/>59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night &#8211; Mark Haddon (x)<br \/>60 Love In The Time Of Cholera &#8211; Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()<br \/>61 Of Mice and Men &#8211; John Steinbeck ()<br \/>62 Lolita &#8211; Vladimir Nabokov ()<br \/>63 The Secret History &#8211; Donna Tartt (x)<br \/>64 The Lovely Bones &#8211; Alice Sebold ( )<br \/>65 Count of Monte Cristo &#8211; Alexandre Dumas ( )<br \/>66 On The Road &#8211; Jack Kerouac ( x)<br \/>67 Jude the Obscure &#8211; Thomas Hardy (x)<br \/>68 Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary &#8211; Helen Fielding ( x)<br \/>69 Midnight\u2019s Children &#8211; Salman Rushdie (x )<br \/>70 Moby Dick &#8211; Herman Melville ( )<br \/>71 Oliver Twist &#8211; Charles Dickens (x)<br \/>72 Dracula &#8211; Bram Stoker (X)<br \/>73 The Secret Garden &#8211; Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)<br \/>74 Notes From A Small Island &#8211; Bill Bryson ( )<br \/>75 Ulysses &#8211; James Joyce ()<br \/>76 The Inferno &#8211; Dante ( )<br \/>77 Swallows and Amazons &#8211; Arthur Ransome (x)<br \/>78 Germinal &#8211; Emile Zola ( )<br \/>79 Vanity Fair &#8211; William Makepeace Thackeray ( )<br \/>80 Possession &#8211; AS Byatt (x)<br \/>81 A Christmas Carol &#8211; Charles Dickens (s)<br \/>82 Cloud Atlas &#8211; David Mitchell ()<br \/>83 The Color Purple &#8211; Alice Walker ()<br \/>84 The Remains of the Day &#8211; Kazuo Ishiguro ( )<br \/>85 Madame Bovary &#8211; Gustave Flaubert ( )<br \/>86 A Fine Balance &#8211; Rohinton Mistry ( )<br \/>87 Charlotte\u2019s Web &#8211; EB White ()<br \/>88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven &#8211; Mitch Albom ()<br \/>89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes &#8211; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)<br \/>90 The Faraway Tree Collection &#8211; Enid Blyton ( )<br \/>91 Heart of Darkness &#8211; Joseph Conrad (x)<br \/>92 The Little Prince &#8211; Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x)<br \/>93 The Wasp Factory &#8211; Iain Banks (x)<br \/>94 Watership Down &#8211; Richard Adams (x)<br \/>95 A Confederacy of Dunces &#8211; John Kennedy Toole ()<br \/>96 A Town Like Alice &#8211; Nevil Shute ( )<br \/>97 The Three Musketeers &#8211; Alexandre Dumas ( )<br \/>98 Hamlet &#8211; William Shakespeare (X)<br \/>99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory &#8211; Roald Dahl (x)<br \/>100 Les Miserables &#8211; Victor Hugo ()<\/p>\n<p>59\/100 (but includes a couple that I&#8217;m reading at the moment like Life of Pi)<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You copy the list and put an x for the ones that you have read.Average is 6 out of this 100, according to the BBC&#8230; 1 Pride and Prejudice &#8211; 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