Over at Book Riot, they’ve posted their readers top 50 reads. I’m a sucker for lists like this and usually end up with a fairly respectable score. Not this time – I came in with a paltry 15 that I’ve read from the list of 50. Some of the others are on my TBR list but even if I get around to all of those I’m still not even at the half way mark. Some of the books I can’t ever see me wanting to read (Douglas Adams for example or Frank Herbert) and I’m astonished that some titles are even on the list (Gone with the Wind, Time Traveller’s Wife).
Better get reading…….
How would you fare with this list?
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (read the first only)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien (not read even one of them)
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Stand by Stephen King
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (got no further than about page 50)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- The PIcture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams (unlikely to ever read this)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver