Book List for Challenge

www.listchallenges.com 100s of lists · 1 login for all lists · big images · earn stars · create lists · mobile ready What I should have posted before even starting this adventure. I am going to go through this list and put stars next to the ones I have read as a sort of rating system. These include one I have read before starting this challenge. 5 star rating system and maybe some remarks. The Book List Challenge Are you well-read? Prove it! Not into this list? Try these other lists 1. 1984 George Orwell *** 2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain *** 3. The Alchemist Paulo Coelho **** 4. Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll **** 5. All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren ***(good read but would not feel like I needed to read again.) 6. All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy *** 7. The Ambassadors Henry James * (Will never pick up book because it is impossible to get through) 8. And Then There Were None Agatha Christie **(simple story that has been remade several times) 9. Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery*** 10. Beloved Toni Morrison *** 11. Brave New World Aldous Huxley *** 12. Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 13. Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding ****(fun) 14. The Call of the Wild Jack London **** 15. The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 16. Catch-22 Joseph Heller 17. The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger *** 18. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl **** 19. Charlotte’s Web E.B. White **** 20. Cloud Atlas David Mitchel ***(Like the story, took some time to figure out flow of book) 21. The Color Purple Alice Walker *** 22. A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole ** (Do not agree with critics that this is hilarious) 23. Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 24. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky 25. Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler ****( Found book intriguing) 26. Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes 27. Dracula Bram Stoker 28. Dune Frank Herbert ** 29. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe 30. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 31. A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 32. Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin *** 33. The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 34. Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell ***** 35. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 36. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck ***** (I like the classics) 37. Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 38. Great Expectations Charles Dickens *** 39. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald **** 40. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 41. Hamlet William Shakespeare 42. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood *** 43. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling ***** 44. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 45. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 46. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams *** 47. Howard's End E.M. Forster 48. In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 49. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 50. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë **** 51. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 52. Les Miserables Victor Hugo 53. Life of Pi Yann Martel *** 54. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis *** 55. The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery *** 56. Little Women Louisa M Alcott ***** 57. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 58. Lord of the Flies William Golding ***( Do not like concept) 59. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien ***** 60. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 61. Main Street Sinclair Lewis *** 62. The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 63. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden *** 64. Middlemarch George Eliot 65. Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie 66. Moby Dick Herman Melville *** 67. Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs * (Just could not read it, made me feel jumpy) 68. Native Son Richard Wright 69. Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) Philip Pullman ** 70. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway *** 71. On The Road Jack Kerouac 72. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 73. A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving *** 74. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen **** 75. The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 76. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 77. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett *** 78. The Secret History Donna Tartt 79. A Separate Peace John Knowles 80. The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon 81. Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser 82. Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 83. Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence 84. The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner *** 85. Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein ** 86. Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransom 87. The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger 88. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee **** 89. To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 90. A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute **** 91. Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller 92. Ulysses James Joyce 93. Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 94. War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 95. Watership Down Richard Adams *** 96. The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 97. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 98. Winnie the Pooh A.A. Milne *** 99. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte **** 100. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig I will hopefully finish the rest of this list by the end of this year. Though I do have some heavy hitters in terms of volume. Plus I am having trouble finding some of these books at the library as well as the bookstores. Have fun reading this year.