How many of these books have you read?

[Lydia Jamyoung]

i know we have all come across this list in one way or another, so, how many of these books have you read? Which ones would you or would you not recommend?


1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

[Esther Khamala]

Hi,

I've read, All the Harry Potter's more than twice. The sixth (Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince) is by far my best! It's actually the type of book you DON'T want to put down. In my opinion you have to read all the rest in order to appreciate the story line. I've also read Bridget Jones Diary, way more enjoyable than the film. Just finished reading 'The Starter Wife', I understand there's a series based on the novel. The book is a brilliant laugh, I couldn't wait for my daily bus ride to indulge. The book is brilliant :-). Currently reading 'The Chocolate Run' by Dorothy Koomson, brilliant for a lousy day (Or Weather - as is in Nairobi now) constant laughs. Check the review here ----->  http://www.dorothykoomson.co.uk/?p=17 

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[Lydia Jamyoung]

Sorry, this was the right list....

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
Complete Works of Shakespeare (And then some of the individual plays are also on this list?)
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
x Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
x 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 Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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

 

[Wacherah]

I recommend:

The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchel 

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 

[Nimo]

 Long list! Most of the ones i read, I did so when I was much younger...so i have a vague recollection of a few of the story lines.

However, the books i would highly recommend, because i particularly LOVED them and still remember what it felt like reading them are:-

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (Amusing)

The Wind in the Willows,-Kenneth Grahame(Fun read)

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown: This one in particular, has a special place in my head/heart because we  (my family) all read it, one after the other, and everyone who picked it up was bewitched by it for about 2-3 days. Its the last book i read that kept me up very late in the night. The story line is simply gripping.

However i feel challenged and will set out to get the books you guys recommend highly!

[Lydia Jamyoung]

i recommend:
1. the great gatsby
2. the curious incident of the dog in the night time (this is actually my best book in the list so far)
3. Catch 22- a satirical and hilarious book, also my best.

i didn't like Remains of the day by Ishiguro.

[Charlie]

Wow, ok this was a long list. Some of these books I've read over and over again

• The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

•   Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

• All of the Harry Potter books , JK Rowling

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (I loved all the Narnia books!)- CS Lewis

•   Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

• Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

• The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

•   Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

•   Little Women( I also recommend Good Wives and Jo's boys)- Louisa May Alcott

• Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

• David Copperfield- Charles Dickens

• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

• Anne Of Green Gables (I love all the Anne books)- LM Montgomery

• Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

• The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck (I disliked this one. It made me feel so sad!)
  

• A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth (sitting in my closet waiting to be read.)

• .Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

• Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden

• The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton (I still love Enid Blyton. She wrote some of the best children's books ever! Famous Five anyone?)
  

• Matilda, Roald Dahl

• Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding

•  The Godfather, Mario Puzo

•  The curious incident of the dog in the night time- Mark Haddon

[James Wamathai]

In that list, I've read the following books i think. All of them are classics in their own right and I'd recommend all of them.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

[Mueni]

Hi guys!

I have just finished Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and it's on the list! I'll keep my comments on the book for another time.

Others I've read on the list are: The Alchemist and To Kill a Mockingbird.

[Ruth Lucinde]

The alchemist was an amazing book.I liked the twists and turns through the pratangonists journey!Have you guys read The Witch of Portebello by Paulo Coehlo?I consider it way to be better than The Alchemist...

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[Mwirigi]

Chrlie and the Chocolate Factory, AWESOME! In fact, anything from Roald Dahl. I'm a dude so I'll also say The Godfather :-)

On Monday, 18 June 2012 11:37:32 UTC+3, Lydia Jamyoung wrote:

[Joyce]

Thanks for sharing the list! 

Here is one of the books on the list, Anne of Green Gables. I've read it at least twice :). There are some nice books available on manybooks.net and project gutenberg - gutenberg.org. I think you can get some of the classics there. If you like classics I recommend The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Beautiful writing! Of course I also love Winnie the Pooh - it is superbly silly and wise. 

[AKenyanGirl]

It's amazing how many of these I read when I was a kid, the classics.

I remember reading D.H. Lawrence before I was 12. Nerd lol

 

2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling

28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving

30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute

44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

46. Animal Farm, George Orwell

50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough

75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt

91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo

94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer

[Kiragu Gichuri]

Read 12 of those books. 

[Nina Mwiti Mugira]

While I am pleased at how diverse our reading culture is, and how many people appreciate it here, I am greatly disappointed that in that list there is no book by an African author.
Other than my sincere concern, I'd recommend Perfume, Patrick Süskind, The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho and Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.