This is the Top 100 list I’m trying to make my way through. The ones I have read are marked with a line through. Although I have already read them before I started my blog I will still review them (date review beside them). Please feel free to comment on any of the books if you have read them or want to read them.
1. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
2. The Lord Of The Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Pride And Prejudice – Jane Austin (reviewed 5th Jan 2007)
4. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee (reviewed 31st Oct 2007)
5. Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
6. Angels And Demons – Dan Brown (reviewed 28th Nov 2006)
7. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
8. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult (reviewed 19th Dec 2006)
9. Tomorrow, When The War Began – John Marsden (reviewed 22nd Mar 2007)
10. Magician – Raymond E. Feist
11. The Bronze Horseman – Paullina Simons
12. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire – J.K. Rowling
13. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
14. Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
15. Cloudstreet – Tim Winton
16. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
17. The Power Of One – Bryce Courtenay
18. April Fools Day – Bryce Courtenay (reviewed 4th Feb 2007)
19. Tully – Paullina Simons
20. Across The Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn (reviewed 10th Feb 2008 )
21. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
22. The God Of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (reviewed 28th Aug 2007)
23. Ice Station – Matthew Reilly
24. The Pillars Of The Earth – Ken Follet
25. Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
26. Perfume – Patrick Suskind
27. The Bible
28. The Bride Stripped Bare – Anonymous (reviewed 19th Oct 2006)
29. Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
30. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
31. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
32. Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon
33. Looking For Alibrandi – Melina Marchetta
34. Mao’s Last Dancer – Li Cunxin (reviewed 4th Nov 2006)
35. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
36. Year Of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
37. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
38. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Series – Douglas Adams
39. Jessica – Bryce Courtenay
40. The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
42. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini (reviewed 10th Oct 2006)
43. One For The Money – Janet Evanovich
44. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
45. The Shadow Of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
46. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (reviewed 25th Oct 2006)
47. Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason – Helen Fielding
48. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
49. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
50. Life Of Pi – Yann Martel
51. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
52. The Poet – Michael Connelly
53. A Child Called It – David Pelzer
54. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
55. On The Road – Jack Kerouac (reviewed 20th Nov 2008 )
56. Tell No One – Harlan Coben
57. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell (reviewed 28th Aug 2007)
58. Almost French – Sarah Turnbull (reviewed 15th Sep 2006)
59. An Equal Music – Vikram Seth
60. The Ancient Future – Tracey Harding
61. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood (reviewed 17th Nov 2006)
62. The Day After Tomorrow – Allan Folsom
63. Desert Flower – Waris Dirie
64. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
65. The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
66. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
67. A Fortunate Life – A.B. Facey
68. Girl With A Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier (reviewed 15th Apr 2009)
69. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
70. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
71. The Horse Whisperer – Nicholas Evans
72. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (reviewed 20th Sep 2006)
73. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
74. The Pact – Jodi Picoult
75. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
76. Wild Swans: Three Daughters Of China – Jung Chang
77. Animal Farm – George Orwell
78. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
79. Atonement – Ian Mcewan (reviewed 28th Mar 2008 )
80. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
81. Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
82. Crime And Punishment – F.M. Dostoevsky (reviewed 7th Aug 2008 )
83. Emma – Jane Austen (reviewed 6th May 2007)
84. Enduring Love – Ian Mcewan
85. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
86. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
87. Interview With The Vampire – Anne Rice
88. It – Stephen King
89. Like Water For Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
90. Not Without My Daughter – Betty Mahmoody
91. Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult
92. 1st To Die – James Patterson
93. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
94. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood (reviewed 30th May 2007)
95. Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb
96. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
97. The Potato Factory – Bryce Courtenay
98. The Redemption Of Althalus – David Eddings
99. Retribution – Jilliane Hoffman
100. River God – Wilbur Smith
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October 6, 2006 at 11:20 AM
tricky84
You haven’t read the Harry Potter series?!?!?!!!
My GOD! Where have you BEEN?!
November 5, 2006 at 5:42 AM
solipsist
Can I give you a pre-review of a couple?
The Power of One – brilliant!
Life of Pi – excellent!
River God – very good
On the Road – classic excellence
Like Water for Chocolate – beautiful
Nineteen Eighty-Four – and here we are manifesting it in 2006
Douglas Adams – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, and Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul are his best (in my view)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven – excellent!
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho – all of Coelho’s books are excellent
A beautiful book not on your list – Winter’s Tale by Mark Halprin – highly recommended.
Nice blog!
November 5, 2006 at 12:54 PM
thepocket
I see that you read and liked The Power of One, have you read April Fool’s Day by Bryce Courtenay? I cried it was very emotional. I’m sure he cried writing it.
December 6, 2006 at 4:59 AM
shanna
I see “My Sister’s Keeper” is on your list. If you want to cry, I would highly recomend that book. I loved it, but kept sobbing uncontrollably.
Shanna
December 6, 2006 at 5:02 AM
shanna
sorry, I should have read the entire list before commenting. I loved the Harry Potter books. I actually never bought them, just borrowed them from friends, because I realized I would just read them over and over and never get anything done.
“Middlesex” and “Interview with the Vampire” I also highly recomend as both great reads. Just to warn you, once you start “Interview” you will want to read them all.
Sshanna
February 23, 2007 at 10:49 AM
Rebecca
I found this site and am wondering if you could tell me where the Top 100 list originated? I looked but couldn’t find a list that matched the one you have here. Thank you.
February 23, 2007 at 11:53 AM
thepocket
My Top 100 list came from Angus and Robertson it is a bookshop in Australia. If you type there name and top 100 in to google it should come up. If you want something more challenging there is a book title ‘1001 Books you must read before you die’ seems a little heavy for me.
May 14, 2007 at 8:59 AM
Moonwaves
Hi there
Just found your site (linked to it from someone else’s blog but now can’t remember whose as I just bookmarked here to come back to it later!). Really like the idea and have been planning anyway to start reviewing whatever book I’m reading on my blog as well. I also recently joined a fledgling book club in work after years of wanting to join one. Only a week or so left till our first proper meeting and I still haven’t even gotten the books. Oh well.
Looking through that list there were a good few titles where I found myself wanting to say “yes, read that one, it’s brilliant”. Then I’d read down two or three more and think the same thing.
Have you ever created a list of your personal Top 100 – ones you’ve read and loved and will always have a copy of? I start sometimes but never get too far – I think I’m going to try and finally do one, perhaps adding to it every couple of weeks until it’s finished. Am definitely going to cheat though and consider trilogies/series to be just one book – that way I get way more than 100 books into my top 100
I’d highly recommend the Robin Hobb books – you have one in the list above, that’s part of the Farseer trilogy, which is followed by the Liveship trilogy (same world but different characters) and then the Tawny Man trilogy which brings the two together. Great books.
So many other good books on that list – it makes me wish I had much more time for reading. Rarely manage more than 20 or 30 minutes a day any more and haven’t had a full day reading for months and months. Look forward to reading more of your blog.
September 5, 2007 at 12:00 PM
chauceriangirl
You’ve got some great books on your list! I love the Harry Potter books, and have read them all multiple times. And I think you’ll really like “The Handmaid’s Tale”–Margaret Atwood is just superb. I’ve got to read some more by her once I plow my way through the books already sitting around waiting for me to read.
I’ve read 31 of the books on your list, and of those I own 23, some in multiple languages (I have one Harry Potter book in Spanish, and two in French). I’m going to add some of yours to my list.
February 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Stewart
I think that should be ll of Coelho’s books are excellent…as kindling.
March 8, 2009 at 1:44 AM
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