Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The List

  1. A Bend in the River - V. S. Naipaul
  2. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
  3. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  4. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
  5. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
  6. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
  7. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  8. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster 
  9. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 
  10. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hussein
  11. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
  12. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
  13. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  14. Atonement - Ian McEwen
  15. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
  16. Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald
  17. Beloved - Toni Morrison
  18. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
  19. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
  20. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  21. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  22. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
  23. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
  24. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
  25. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (7 book series)
  26. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
  27. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  28. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
  29. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  30. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  31. Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
  32. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
  33. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  34. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
  35. Dracula - Bram Stoker
  36. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
  37. Dune - Frank Herbert
  38. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
  39. Emma - Jane Austen
  40. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  41. Frankenstein-Mary Shelley
  42. Germinal - Emile Zola
  43. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  44. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  45. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  46. Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
  47. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  48. Herzog - Saul Bellow
  49. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (3 book series)
  50. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
  51. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
  52. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison 
  53. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  54. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  55. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
  56. LA Confidential - James Ellroy
  57. Lanark - Alasdair Gray
  58. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  59. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
  60. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  61. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  62. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
  63. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  64. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
  65. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  66. Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway
  67. Middlemarch - George Eliot
  68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
  69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  70. Money - Martin Amis
  71. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
  72. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
  73. Native Son - Richard Wright
  74. Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
  75. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
  76. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
  77. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
  78. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  79. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  80. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  81. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
  82. Oscar And Lucinda - Peter Carey
  83. Persuasion - Jane Austen
  84. Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
  85. Possession - AS Byatt
  86. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  87. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
  88. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
  89. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
  90. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  91. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
  92. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
  93. Sybil - Benjamin Disraeli
  94. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  95. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  96. The BFG - Roald Dahl
  97. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
  98. The Black Sheep - Honore De Balzac
  99. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
  100. The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge
  101. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  102. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
  103. The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
  104. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
  105. The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith
  106. The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
  107. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
  108. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
  109. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
  110. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  111. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
  112. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  113. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - JRR Tolkien (3 book series)
  114. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
  115. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
  116. The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
  117. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  118. The Plague - Albert Camus
  119. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
  120. The Pursuit Of Love - Nancy Mitford
  121. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
  122. The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
  123. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
  124. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
  125. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  126. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  127. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
  128. The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan (5 book series) 
  129. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  130. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
  131. The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
  132. The Trial - Franz Kafka
  133. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
  134. The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
  135. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  136. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
  137. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  138. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
  139. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
  140. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
  141. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
  142. Ulysses - James Joyce
  143. USA - John Dos Passos
  144. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  145. Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
  146. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  147. Watership Down - Richard Adams
  148. Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
  149. Wise Children - Angela Carter
  150. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
  151. ADDED April 29th 2011 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Bolded Yellow - Currently reading
Red - Marked as unfinished
Blue - Finished

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