100 books

i'm not saying i'm a good reader, only that i enjoy it with all of my heart and soul... 
there are a lot of books out there to choose from, and i'd rather not waste my time reading "trash".
here are some tried and true favorites.

1. The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
2. The Road Less Traveled – Dr. Scott M. Peck
3. Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
4. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
7. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
9. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
10. World War Z – Max Brooks
11. Education of a Wandering Man – Louis L’Amour
12. Watership Down – Richard Adams
13. The Iliad – Homer
14. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
15. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
16. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
17. Paradise Lost – John Milton
18. Ulysses – James Joyce
19. Dracula – Bram Stoker
20. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
21. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
22. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
23. 1984 – George Orwell
24. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
25. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
26. Shogun – James Clavell
27. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
28. The Stand – Stephen King
29. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D. H. Lawrence
30. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
31. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
32. War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
33. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
34. The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
35. The Art of War – Sun Tzu
36. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
37. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
38. Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
39. Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein
40. Deliverance – James Dickey
41. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
42. The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller
43. Season of Mists – Neil Gaiman
44. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
45. Eaters of the Dead – Michael Crichton
46. The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
47. Night – Eli Wiesel
48. Exodus – Leon Uris
49. Contact – Carl Sagan
50. You Can’t Go Home Again – Thomas Wolfe
51. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
52. Blubber – Judy Blume
53. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
54. The Stranger – Albert Camus
55. The Trial – Franz Kafka
56. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
57. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
58. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
59. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
60. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
61. Grendel – John Gardner
62. Hour of the Dragon – Robert E. Howard
63. The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer
64. Cop Hater – Ed McBain
65. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
66. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
67. McTeague – Frank Norris
68. A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
69. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
70. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
71. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
72. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
73. The Divine Comedy – Dante
74. Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes
75. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
76. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
77. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
78. Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White
79. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
80. The Magus – John Fowles
81. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
82. Middlemarch – George Eliot
83. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
84. The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
85. The Complete Shakespeare – William Shakespeare
86. Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
87. I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
88. The Compete Plays of Aristophanes – Aristophanes
89. The Science of God – Gerald L. Schroeder
90. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
91. No Exit – Jean-Paul Sartre
92. Alexander of Macedon – Harold Lamb
93. Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
94. We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
95. Band of Brothers – Stephen Ambrose
96. Ancient Inventions – Peter James and Nick Thorpe
97. The Telltale Heart and Other Writings – Edgar Allan Poe
98. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
99. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Frank Baum
100. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer

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 doesn't reading just transport you into another world?
don't have enough adventure in your life?
climb in your bed, pull out a book, and let your imagination run wild for a bit!

here is another list.

the BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here (i can't verify this statistic). how do your reading habits stack up?

instructions: look at the list and put an 'X' after those you have read.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x)

2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ( )

3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)

4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)

5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ( )

6. The Bible (x)

7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (x)

8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ( )

9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( )

10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ( )

11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ( )

12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ( )

13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ( )

14. Complete Works of Shakespeare ( )

15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (x)

16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)

17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )

18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ( )

19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ( )

20. Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )

21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ( )

22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ( )

23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )

24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )

25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ( )

26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )

27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( )

28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ( )

29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)

30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ( )

31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )

32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ( )

33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x)

34. Emma - Jane Austen (x)

35. Persuasion - Jane Austen (x)

36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x)

37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ( )

38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )

39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (x)

40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x)

41. Animal Farm - George Orwell (x)

42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)

43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )

44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ( )

45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( )

46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (x)

47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ( )

48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( )

49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)

50. Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )

51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( )

52. Dune - Frank Herbert (x)

53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( )

54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ( )

55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )

56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( )

57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ( )

58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ( )

59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ( )

60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )

61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ( )

62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ( )

63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt ( )

64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ( )

65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (x)

66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()

67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )

68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (x)

69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( )

70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville ( )

71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ( )

72. Dracula - Bram Stoker (x)

73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ( )

74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( )

75. Ulysses - James Joyce ( )

76. The Inferno - Dante ( )

77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( )

78. Germinal - Emile Zola ( )

79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( )

80. Possession - AS Byatt ( )

81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x)

82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( )

83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( )

84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( )

85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )

86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( )

87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x)

88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ( )

89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( )

90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ( )

91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( )

92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ( )

93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )

94. Watership Down - Richard Adams ( )

95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )

96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( )

97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ( )

98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x)

99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x)

100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (x)

27 - and counting!!!

or better yet...

go find a tree.

sit in the shade and read

a book

            a poem

or whatever tickles your fancy!

it's never a waste of time when you are enjoying yourself.