Sunday, January 17, 2010

Gas Station Dutch Cigars

Top 100 books

From Keira I saw this play and, like him, I am going to do that! Simple rules simple:

1) In bold the books I read;
2) In italics those who wish to read;
3) Underline the ones that I particularly like ( because I do not know how to underline the words alongside those that I particularly put an X )

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X) 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 May Alcott
12 Tess of the D'ubervilees - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete work 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 (X)
22 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Tolstoj (lo sto leggendo)
25 The hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and punishment - Dostoevskj
28 Grapes and wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in wonderland - Carroll
30 The wind in the willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Tolstoj
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (L'ho abbandonato a metà)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (X)
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 - Artur Golden (X)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred years of solitude - Garcia Marquez
44 A prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The woman in white - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of the 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 (X)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold comfort farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and sensibility - Jane Austen (X)
55 A suitable boy - Vikram Seth
56 The shadow of the wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (X)
57 A tale of two cities - Charled 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 - Garcia Marquez
61 Of mice and men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimi Nabokov
63 The secret history - Donna Tartt
64 The lovely bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas padre
66 On the road - 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 - FH Burnett
74 Notes from a small island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The bell jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallowa and amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - Thackeray
80 Possession - Antonia 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 - 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 - Conan Doyle
90 The faraway tree collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of darkness - Jospeph Conrad
92 The little prince - 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 - Dumas padre
98 Hamlet - Shakespeare (X)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables
- Victor Hugo