My reading mojo seems to have gone into hibernation these last couple of weeks, so to keep up some activity I thought I’d jump in on this tag.
1. Include a link back to Amazon’s official 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
2. Tag Perfectly Tolerable, the creator of this meme
3. Tag the person who nominated you (I saw this on Travels in Retrospect)
4. Copy the list of books and indicate which titles you have read.
5. Tally up your total.
6. Comment on the post you were tagged in and share your total count. (For some reason I’m not able to comment…)
7. Tag five new people and comment on one of their posts to let them know. (I’m not going to tag anyone, feel free to nominate yourself.)
Here’s the list:
1984 George Orwell
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
A Game of Thrones George R R Martin
A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
American Gods Neil Gaiman
American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer
Atonement Ian McKewan
Bad Science Ben Goldacre
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
Brideshead Revisted Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
Brighton Rock Graham Greene
Casino Royale Ian Fleming
Catch 22 Joseph Hellier
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevesky
Dissolution C J Sansom
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K. Dick
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone J K Rowling
High Fidelity Nick Hornby
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Knots and Crosses Ian Rankin
Last Orders Graham Swift
Little Women Louise May Alcott
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
London Fields Martin Amis
London: The Biography Peter Akroyd
Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
My Man Jeeves P G Woodhouse
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier (dnf, though)
Stormbreaker Anthony Horowitz
Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne
The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett
The Commitments Roddy Doyle
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
The Enchanted Wood Enid Blyton
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
The Fellowship of the Ring J R R Tolkien
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
The Road Cormac McCarthy
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Sue Townsend
The Secret History Donna Tartt
The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
The Stand Stephen King
The Story of Tracy Beaker Jacqueline Wilson
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter
The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr
The Time Machine H G Wells
The Worst Witch Jill Murphy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John Le Carré
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
Trainspotting Irvine Welsh
Venice Jan Morris
Watchmen Alan Moore
Watership Down Richard Adams
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Helen Oxenbury
White Teeth Zadie Smith
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang
Winnie the Pooh A A Milne
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
37. Or 36,5, since I only skimmed most of Rebecca (since I hated it…). I’ve also at some point read a digested version of Great Expectations, though, so I’m sort of at 37 in total. Anyway, some interesting books here compared to a lot of other «top 100» lists.
Thanks for participating! I have read 23 from this list which is more than I have read from the American List!
I hope your reading mojo comes back 🙂