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on: February 25, 2013, 07:20:22 AM
I was browsing the internet for my next book to read and found this list... feel free to add or comment...


1. Pride and Prejudice

2. The Lord of the Rings

3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling

5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

6. The Bible

7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

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

16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17. Birdsong – Sebastian Folk

18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

19. The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Avenger

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

27. Crime and Punishment – Feodor Dostoyevsky

28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

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. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34. Emma – Jane Austen

35. Persuasion – Jane Austen

36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres

39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40. Story of O

41. Animal Farm – George Orwell

42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43. 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. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50. Atonement – Ian McEwan

51. 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. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – 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

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. 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

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

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

99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

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Reply #1 on: February 25, 2013, 07:30:12 AM
All the works of Edgar Allen Poe is what I add to the list



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Reply #2 on: February 25, 2013, 08:02:43 AM
I would add The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner and/or The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

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Reply #3 on: February 25, 2013, 09:23:38 AM
For every reader it will be a different 100 books (almost).
I notice this compiler has included William Shakespeare's Hamlet twice, lol.



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Reply #4 on: February 25, 2013, 10:51:06 AM
Thanks 4 the list, there's a few I've never heard of *gets library card out* :)



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Reply #5 on: February 26, 2013, 11:12:43 PM
Got to love #6, best work of fiction ever.   8)



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Reply #6 on: February 27, 2013, 12:22:20 AM
My thought was... I've seen a lot of these movies. Lol  Where the hell are Grisham and Clancy?  No Rainbow Six?  Must be a woman's list! :emot_laughing:



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Reply #7 on: February 27, 2013, 12:46:28 AM
If you read Watership Down, do it when you're stoned like I did.   Makes it a bit more interesting.




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Reply #8 on: February 27, 2013, 01:20:33 AM
Clancy and Grisham learned to write from these books. So don't knock them.

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Reply #9 on: February 27, 2013, 01:40:23 AM
My thought was... I've seen a lot of these movies. Lol  Where the hell are Grisham and Clancy?  No Rainbow Six?  Must be a woman's list! :emot_laughing:

Rainbow Six was not one of his better works.



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Reply #10 on: February 27, 2013, 02:43:07 AM
Thanks for the better list, Toe. There are some in that I haven't read yet. Already gave you a woo for the Dostoyevsky. Can't woo you again for the list. :(

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Reply #11 on: February 27, 2013, 04:27:15 AM
Thanks toe... I'm always eager for reading... the more books the better...

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Reply #12 on: March 25, 2018, 06:50:49 AM
I would add Jan Karski's Story of a Secret State to the list.  Too many people these days are ignorant of the history of WWII and the Holocaust.
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Reply #13 on: March 25, 2018, 12:12:03 PM

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver


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Reply #14 on: March 25, 2018, 07:49:57 PM

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver


58.  57, if you acknowledge that #14 “Complete Works Of William Shakespeare” and #98 “Hamlet” are redundant.

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Reply #15 on: March 26, 2018, 12:26:18 AM
A lot of great books here



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Reply #16 on: March 27, 2018, 11:29:32 AM
The Innocent - Ian McEwan

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Reply #17 on: January 21, 2019, 04:32:43 AM
1. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - just because

2. The Lord of the Rings

3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4. Cormoran Strike Series _ Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)

5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

6. Kama Sutra

7. Power Without Glory - Frank Hardy (Australian Author)

8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest I Ken Kesey

11. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig

12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14. Complete Works of Shakespeare

15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17. Birdsong – Sebastian Folk

18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

19. The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

20. Cloud Street - Tim Winton (his only decent book)

21. My Life and Loves - Frank Harris

22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

27. Poor Folk – Feodor Dostoyevsky

28. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

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. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34. Emma – Jane Austen

35. Eucalyptus - Murray Bail

36. Capricornia - Xavier Herbert

37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres

39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40. Story of O

41. Animal Farm – George Orwell

42. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

43. No One Writes to the Colonel – 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. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood

49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50. Atonement – Ian McEwan

51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52. On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan

53. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery

54. Kennedy's Brain - Henning Mankell

55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56. The Spare Room - Helen Garner

57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon

60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61. The Secret River - Kate Grenville

62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63. Emmanuelle - Emmanuelle Arsan

64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ - Sue Townsend

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. A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson

75. Ulysses – James Joyce

76. The Inferno – Dante

77. Nexus, Sexus and Plexus Trilogy - Henry Miller

78. Nana – Emile Zola

79. Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre

80. Le Deuxième Sexe  - Simone De Beauvoir

81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82. The Signalman - Charles Dickens

83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

86. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro

87. Charlotte’s Web – EB White

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 & The Secret Agent – 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

99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo


Just a taster - There are a few I could add or subtract from this list but if you haven't read much, or any, Australian books there is a good sampling of the best above in my list.




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Reply #18 on: January 21, 2019, 02:39:08 PM
I can only suggest 1 (That hasn't been recommended already.) 

1)  "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid."
By Douglas R. Hoffstadter. 

It's dense, but there's a lot of humor to keep it entertaining. 



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Reply #19 on: June 06, 2020, 08:52:38 AM
I don’t think I’ve seen these yet; The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. The last is more of a novella or novelette but just fantastic.

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