During the Christmas season of 2009, my older sister and I organized a book list of 100 books. We took suggestions from various "Best Book" lists, banned book lists, classics lists, as well as some sci-fi suggestions. Below is the final draft of our 100 Books to read in 2010. Yes, we realize it is no longer 2010 but several moves, vacations, grad school, babies, engagements, and starting new jobs, plus reading other non-list books, have been very time consuming. The date is now arbitrary, but the list is still awesome. (Titles crossed out have been read).
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3.Where angels fear to tread by E.M. Forester
4. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
6. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
7. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
8. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
9. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
11. Oliver Twist or David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
12. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
13. Persuasion by Jane Austen
14. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
15. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
16. Middlemarch by George Elliot
17. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
18. Light in August by William Faulkner
19. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
20. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
21. Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
22. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
23. Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
24. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
25. Dracula/Undead by Bram and Dacre Stoker
26. Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
27. Tess of the D’ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
28. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
29. Beloved by Toni Morrison
30. Dune by Frank Herbert
31. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
32. Watership Down by Richard Adams
33. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
34. Remembrance of Things past by Marcel Proust
35. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
35. Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
36. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
37. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
38. Brave New World by Aldophus Huxley
39. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
40. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
41. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
43. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
44. Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara
45. Wings of the Dove by Henry James
46. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
47. Ulysses by James Joyce
48. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
49. Moonheart by Charles de Lint
50. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
51. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
52. Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
53. Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
54. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
55. Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini
56. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
57. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
58. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
59. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
60. A room with a view by E.M. Forster
61. Othello by Shakespeare
62. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
63. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
64. Castle in the forest by Norman Mailer
65. Secret Garden by Frances H. Burnett
66. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
67. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
68. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
69. The Old Wives Tale by Arnold Bennett
70. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
71. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
72. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
73. Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne
74. Anne Frank:Diary of a young girl by Anne Frank
75. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
76. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
77. Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine l’engle
78. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
79. Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
80. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
81. Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
82. I know why a caged bird sings by Maya Angelou
83. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
84. Native Son by Richard Wright
85. The Age of Reason by Thomas Payne
86. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
87. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
88. Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
89. A Town like Alice by Nevil Shute
90. Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
91. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
92. Vanity Fair by William Mackerey
93. The Prince by Machiavelli
94. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
95. The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
96. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
97. A Pale View of hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
98. The Plague by Albert Camus
99. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
100. Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe
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