Its that time of the semester!

Midterms! Which means I'm procrastinating by copying Paddy's/BBC's list of books.

X= Read it
X+= Read and loved it
X-= Read and hated it
*= Plan to read it

1. [X] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [X] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [X-] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [X+] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [X+] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [X+] The Bible
7. [ ] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [X+] 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. [X] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [>] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [ ] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurie
16. [X] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [ ] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [X+] 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. [X+] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald (Class of '17!)
23. [ ] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [ ] War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25. [X+] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [ ] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [X] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [X+] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck (East of Eden is great too)
29. [ ] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [ ] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [ ] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [ ] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [X+] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [ ] Emma Jane Austen
35. [ ] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [X+] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [X+] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [ ] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [X+] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [X] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [X+] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [ ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [ ] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [ ] Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [X+] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood (Margaret Atwood is soooo good. Read Oryx and Crake)
49. [X+] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [X+] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
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. [X] 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. [X-] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [ ] The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. [X+] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65. [X] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
66. [ ] On The Road Jack Kerouac
67. [ ] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ ] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [ ] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [ ] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens...
72. [ ] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [ ] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [ ] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [X] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [ ] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [ ] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [ ] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [ ] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [X] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
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. [X] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [>] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [X] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [ ] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [ ] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [X-] 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. [X] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [X] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo


I've read 33 of the books. There were far too many Jane Austen books here. Those Brits.