Someone just sent this to me via email, so, being the diligent book blogger (ahem) that I am, I decided to re-post it here. Some random source came up with its list of top 100 books, much like every other newspaper and magazine has done. About 65% of the books remain the same, as far as I can tell, but then there's that 35%..... Here's the list. The ones in pink are the ones I've read, the ones in blue are on my to-be-read list. Yay me. (Or, boo me!)
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
4. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
10. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
11. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
12. Animal Farm by George Orwell
13. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
14. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
15. Ulysses by James Joyce
16. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
17. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
18. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
19. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
20. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
21. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
22. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
23. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
24. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
25. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
26. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
28. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
29. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
30. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
31. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
32. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
33. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
34. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
35. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
36. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
37. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
38. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
39. The Stranger by Albert Camus
40. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
41. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
42. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
43. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
44. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
45. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
46. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
47. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
48. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
49. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
50. Watership Down by Richard Adams
51. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
52. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
53. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
54. His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
55. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
56. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
57. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
58. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
59. Middlemarch by George Eliot
60. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
61. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
62. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
63. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
64. The Stand by Stephen King
65. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
66. Dune by Frank Herbert
67. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
68. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
69. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
70. Dracula by Bram Stoker
71. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
72. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
73. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
74. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
75. The Trial by Franz Kafka
76. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
77. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
78. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
79. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
80. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
81. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
82. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
83. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
84. Persuasion by Jane Austen
85. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
86. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
87. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
88. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
89. Emma by Jane Austen
90. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
91. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
92. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
93. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
94. Atonement by Ian McEwan
95. Beloved by Toni Morrison
96. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
97. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
98. Siddharta by Hermann Hesse
99. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
100. Light in August by William Faulkner
To Be Read List: 22
Read: 32
Not very impressive, is it? :(
How about you? How many have you read? Or, are you planning on reading any, anytime soon?