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A list of books that deserve to be read:

This is generally more of a list for me for the future, although I’ve been meaning to make one of these lists for a long time anyway. I decided to be nice and organize all of these by title, but I put all the titles in bold that are my personal and absolute favorites.

Top 3 Favorite Books:

  1. Memoirs of a Geisha - My god, I have never loved a book as much as I’ve loved this one. I wish I could give a strong and thoughtful analysis on it, but it’s hard for me to put all my feelings into words and I doubt any of you would read it.  For anyone who  hasn’t read it, I reccommend it with as much force as I can possibly muster.
  2. The Book Thief - I read this book a few years ago, but I reread it during the summer and it quickly became one of my favorite books. It almost passes Memoirs, but Liesel quickly become one of my favorite literary characters and getting to read a book in the narrative of Death was really interesting.
  3. Looking for Alaska - To anyone who hasn’t read a single book by John Green needs to do so immediately. John has always been one of my favorite people, and his books are fantastic. Looking for Alaska is my ultimate favorite and my book is 60% highlighting from all the quotes I liked in it.
  • A Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • A Separate Peace by  John Knowles
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseini
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Call of the Wild by Jack London
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  • Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
  • Howl’s Moving Castle by Diane Jones
  • I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
  • Life of Pi by  Yann Martel
  • Looking for Alaska by John Green
  • Madonna of the Seven Hills / Light on Lucrezia by Jean Plaidy
  • Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Paper Towns by John Green
  • Persepolis by  Marjane Sartrapi
  • Pet Cemetery by Stephen King
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Queens Fool by Philippa Gregory
  • Room by Emma Donoghue
  • Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
  • Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
  • Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen (really, any book by him is fantastic.)
  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
  • The  Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  • The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  • The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
  • The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  • The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
  • The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
  • The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
  • To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • V for Vendetta: The Graphic Novel by Alan Moore
  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

The 100 most popular books

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For World Book Night 2012 we want to find out about the nation’s favourite books. We’re compiling the top 10s of thousands of readers to see what books people love to read, share and give. Below is an ever changing top 100 – displayed alphabetically – which will ultimately inform the 25 books chosen for World Book Night 2012. Why not see if your favourites are here and, if you haven’t already, tell us your top 10 and share your favourite books with thousands of others. (click link and read on …)

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Rory Gilmore's Book List Challenge!

Put the books you’ve read in BOLD!

  1. 1984 by George Orwell
  2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 
  4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
  5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
  7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  9. Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
  10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
  11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  13. Atonement by Ian McEwan
  14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
  15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  16. Babe by Dick King-Smith
  17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
  18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
  19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  21. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
  23. The Bhagava Gita
  24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
  25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
  27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
  30. Candide by Voltaire
  31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
  32. Carrie by Stephen King
  33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 
  35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
  36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
  37. Christine by Stephen King
  38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 
  39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
  41. The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
  42. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
  43. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
  44. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
  45. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
  46. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
  47. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  48. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  49. Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac
  50. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  51. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber – started and not finished
  52. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  53. Cujo by Stephen King
  54. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 
  55. Daisy Miller by Henry James
  56. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
  57. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
  58. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  59. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 
  60. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  61. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  62. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  63. Deenie by Judy Blume
  64. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
  65. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
  66. The Divine Comedy by Dante
  67. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
  68. Don Quijote by Cervantes
  69. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
  70. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  71. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
  72. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
  73. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
  74. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
  75. Eloise by Kay Thompson
  76. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
  77. Emma by Jane Austen 
  78. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
  79. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
  80. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  81. Ethics by Spinoza
  82. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
  83. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
  84. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  85. Extravagance by Gary Krist
  86. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 
  87. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
  88. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
  89. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
  90. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  91. The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR) 
  92. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
  93. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 
  94. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
  95. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
  96. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  97. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
  98. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  99. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  100. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
  101. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
  102. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
  103. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
  104. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
  105. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
  106. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
  107. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
  108. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
  109. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 
  110. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
  111. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 
  112. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
  113. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
  114. The Graduate by Charles Webb
  115. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  116. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  117. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  118. The Group by Mary McCarthy
  119. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  120. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 
  121. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 
  122. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  123. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 
  124. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 
  125. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
  126. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
  127. Henry V by William Shakespeare
  128. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  129. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  130. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
  131. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
  132. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr)
  133. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
  134. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
  135. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
  136. How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland
  137. Howl by Allen Gingsburg
  138. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  139. The Iliad by Homer
  140. I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres
  141. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  142. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
  143. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
  144. It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
  145. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 
  146. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  147. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
  148. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
  149. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  150. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
  151. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
  152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 
  153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence
  154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
  155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
  157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
  158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
  160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  161. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  162. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
  163. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
  164. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
  165. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 
  166. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
  167. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  168. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
  169. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 
  170. The Love Story by Erich Segal
  171. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 
  172. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  173. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
  174. Marathon Man by William Goldman
  175. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  176. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
  177. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
  178. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  179. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
  180. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken
  181. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
  182. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  183. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  184. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
  185. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  186. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
  187. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
  188. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
  189. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
  190. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
  191. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
  192. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  193. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
  194. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
  195. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
  196. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
  197. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
  198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
  199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
  202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
  203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
  204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
  205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
  206. Night by Elie Wiesel
  207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
  209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
  210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
  211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  212. Old School by Tobias Wolff
  213. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  214. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  215. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  216. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  217. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  218. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
  219. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
  220. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  221. Othello by Shakespeare 
  222. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
  223. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
  224. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
  225. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
  226. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  227. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
  228. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  229. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
  230. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  231. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
  232. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
  233. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
  234. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby – read
  235. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
  236. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
  237. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
  238. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 
  239. Property by Valerie Martin
  240. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
  241. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  242. Quattrocento by James Mckean
  243. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
  244. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers –
  245. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
  246. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
  247. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
  248. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 
  249. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
  250. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  251. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
  252. The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR) 
  253. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
  254. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
  255. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
  256. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
  257. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  258. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  259. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
  260. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
  261. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
  262. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
  263. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
  264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
  265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
  267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 
  269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
  270. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
  271. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 
  272. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  273. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
  274. Sexus by Henry Miller
  275. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  276. Shane by Jack Shaefer
  277. The Shining by Stephen King
  278. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  279. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
  280. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  281. Small Island by Andrea Levy 
  282. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
  283. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 
  284. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
  285. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
  286. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
  287. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
  288. Songbook by Nick Hornby
  289. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
  290. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  291. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
  292. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  293. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
  294. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  295. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  296. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
  297. Stuart Little by E. B. White
  298. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  299. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
  300. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
  301. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
  302. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  303. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  304. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
  305. Time and Again by Jack Finney
  306. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  307. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
  308. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
  309. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
  310. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  311. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  312. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
  313. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
  314. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 
  315. Ulysses by James Joyce
  316. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
  317. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe – started and not finished
  318. Unless by Carol Shields
  319. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
  320. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
  321. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  322. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
  323. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
  324. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
  325. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  326. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
  327. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  328. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
  329. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
  330. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
  331. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
  332. Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
  333. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 
  334. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 
  335. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
  336. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  337. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  338. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  339. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

I’ve read 86 out of 339 - I feel pretty good. Especially considering I don’t study English or Literature. 

The 100 greatest non-fiction books

guardian.co.uk

Give me twenty years, and I won’t even put a dent in this list. Not a scratch on the surface.

Found this and reblog didn't give me the complete list :( so here it is!

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Council of Nicea
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce 
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

7 Books to Help You Have a Happier New Year


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Instead of making a laundry list of hard-to-keep resolutions, we resolve to be happier in 2013. Here are seven books we’re reading to help us achieve our goal. 

The Book of Happiness: Africa by Joseph Peter
Culinary Intelligence by Peter Kaminsky
Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
The Happy Life by David Malouf
Instant Happy by Karen Salmahnson
May Cause Miracles A 40-Day Guidebook of Subtle Shifts for Radical Change and Unlimited Happiness by Gabrielle Bernstein
This Year I Will… by M.J. Ryan

Book List 1: BBC Top 100

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

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 Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’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

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 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

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-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

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 - E.B. 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

Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

This looks fun. :)

Bolded: books I have already read
Italicized: books started but not finished
Underlined: Currently reading / On the reading pile

Reading progress: (29/339)

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recommendations: fantasy/drama, good biographies

Sasha Edna Eunice (@stakethisclaim): says she usually reads… “hmmmm. a good mix of stuff. i like fantasy/drama fiction (Dresden files is awesome), and really good biographies are a favorite.”

Emmephant Recommends:
Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox: This is a super-awesome autobiography about a long-distance open water swimmer who eventually swims a mile in Antarctic waters. I don’t remember how I decided to read this (I think I just picked it up while browsing), but I’m super glad that I did; I ended up plowing through it in a day.
The Lover’s Dictionary
by David Levithan
: A sometimes heart-breaking love story told in dictionary entries. A dangerous book for you, o quote collector, you’ll end up transcribing practically the entire thing.
The Messenger: the Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad
by Karl Evanzz
: Well done, interesting biographies you say? Here you go – a biography of the leader of the Nation of Islam. I read this for one of my college courses (aptly called Nation of Islam) and loved it. You’ll get a fascinating history of the religion as well as the man named its prophet.
On Suicide Bombing by Talal Asad: I used this in excess for my senior thesis. Asad writes about suicide bombing as a practice, as a religion, a motivation, and an assumption. It’s really an incredible book, I should own a copy.
Shantaram
by Gregory David Roberts
: My second favorite book in the entire world. It is unbelievably beautiful, relatable. I cried when it was over because there was no more to read. It tells the story of an Australian man, Lindsay as he escapes from a New Zealand prison to India, immediately meeting and befriending the jovial Prabaker, a street guide who shows him a side of Bombay no tourist will ever see. This is another book where any description I could write will be an embarrassment to the novel; it is so damned good it hurts.
Eve’s Longing
by Deborah McKay
: an exploration of philosophy as a woman explores herself and her surroundings. I read this for an English class in college, and was absolutely astounded by it. This was on Abby’s list too.
Wither
by Lauren DeStefano
: In this first installment of the Chemical Garden Trilogy, we meet Rhine, a girl stolen from the streets where she lived with her brother and sold as to a rich governor’s son as a wife. Polygamy is common in Rhine’s world, as a virus (caused by the over-sterilization and genetic purification of our generation) kills men at the age of 25 and women at 20. Rich men like Governor Linden collect wives (some from orphanages, some kidnapped and sold) for breeding purposes, and Rhine wants absolutely nothing to do with it, as you can imagine. This new dystopian novel is absolutely stunning – though the setting at time falls flat, and the reader, like Rhine, often finds it easy to forget the marrow of her situation as sister wife, this haunting novel is one you won’t soon forget.
Ape House
by Sara Gruen
: This novel centers on a group of Bonobo chimps living in a laboratory and being trained in American Sign Language by our heroine, Isabel. Of course, Isabel has fought against activist groups who feel her work with the chimps is wrong, inhumane, and should be stopped, but she feels her work is important, and that the chimps enjoy their surroundings as well as learning experiences. One day she and the chimps accept a reporter, John Thigpen, into their world, allowing him to compose a story praising the chimps’ intelligence. The very next day, a group of activists bomb the laboratory, nearly killing Isabel, and the chimps are lost. The apes soon find themselves re-purchased and stars of a new pornographic reality TV show based on their inherent sexuality, called Ape House. As Isabel and John struggle to regain the chimps and stop their exploitation, the show becomes more and more wildly popular. Ape House is a stunning, all-too-short novel that will harshly open your eyes about human treatment of animals (and each other).
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea: Nayeli lives in the small town of Tres Camarones, Mexico – a town abandoned by its men for the optimistic, job-filled land of Los Estados Unidos. With the town unprotected and vulnerable, banditos have begun to settle their drug cartels in. After seeing a rerun of The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides that she herself will go to the States and bring back seven men who will protect the town, just like Yul Brynner. Written by the man who fully supports your adorable lovely squee-y knit elephants, a near-Pulitzer prize winning author, this book is absolutely beautiful and my description does it little to no justice.
Fat Vampire: a Never Coming of Age Story
by Adam Rex
: A light addition to this list, Fat Vampire chronicles a new vampire who is the exact opposite of what modern society thinks of as vampire – he doesn’t sparkle, he’s not drop dead gorgeous, he’s not svelte or muscly at all, and even though he’s got eternity to work his body into sexiness, his new status as undead prevents any physical changes. Doug is stuck, for eternity, as a slightly overweight, pretty ugly, unlovable fifteen year old who refuses to drink human blood, subsisting off cows, instead. Things get even worse for Doug when he falls for a hot girl who obviously will never love him, and when a reality TV show called Vampire Hunters starts following him.

Emmephant Responds: I am really excited about this list, it has some of my favorite books on it (one of All Time, a few of Recent Time), and I’m pretty sure you’ll enjoy the nonfiction as well.

47/100 .. How many have you read?

The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

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 Faulks

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  Does 1/2 count?

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

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 

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

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-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

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 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 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 - Ronald Dahl 

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

… The ones I read, I read in highschool and most of them even before highschool. I guess being bullied and having no friends paid off in some ways. 

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