100 Books Everyone 'should' Read

[Heroine of the Dragon]

...according to the users of Goodreads (and an article on businessinsider).


So, how many have you read?

Here’s the full, ranked list:

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
“The Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank
“1984” by George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
“The Lord of the Rings” (1-3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White
“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott
“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell
“Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain
“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
“The Help” by Kathryn Stockett
“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wadrobe” by C.S. Lewis
“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck
“The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
“Night” by Elie Wiesel
“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare
“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle
“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck
“A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare
“The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein
“Wuthering Heights” Emily Bronte
“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green
“Anne of Green Gables” by L.M. Montgomery
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain
“Macbeth” by William Shakespeare
“The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larrson
“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
“The Holy Bible: King James Version”
“The Colour Purple” by Alice Walker
“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith
“East of Eden” by John Steinbeck
“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll
“In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote
“Catch-22” by Joseph Heller
“The Stand” by Stephen King
“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon
“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by J.K. Rowling
“Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card
“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy
“Watership Down” by Richard Adams
“Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden
“Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier
“A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
“The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle
“Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” by J.K. Rowling
“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel
“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge” by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis
“The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett
“Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl
“Dracula” by Bram Stoker
“The Princess Bride” by William Goldman
“Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd
“The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel” by Barbara Kingsolver
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
“The Time Traveller’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger
“The Odyssey” by Homer
“The Good Earth (House of Earth #1)” by Pearl S. Buck
“Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3)” by Suzanne Collins
“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie
“The Thorn Birds” by Colleen McCullough
“A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving
“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot
“Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy
“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
“Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse
“Beloved” by Toni Morrison
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
“Cutting For Stone” by Abraham Verghese
“The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster
“The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The Story of My Life” by Helen Keller

-https://www.businessinsider.com.au/100- ... ?r=US&IR=T



My short list is as follows:
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
“1984” by George Orwell
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling
“The Lord of the Rings” (1-3) by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White
“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain
“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wadrobe” by C.S. Lewis
“The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare
“The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain
“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll
“The Stand” by Stephen King
“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by J.K. Rowling
“Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card
“A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” by J.K. Rowling
“The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl
“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie
“The Thorn Birds” by Colleen McCullough

Two of my favourite books are in this list... "Ender's Game" and "The Stand".

[CaptHayfever]

I've read (32 from that list):
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride & Prejudice (& Zombies)
(parts of) 1984
Harry Potter (all of them)
(parts of) Fellowship of the Ring
The Hobbit
Animal Farm
Catcher in the Rye
Book Thief
Hunger Games (all of them)
The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe
Hamlet
A Wrinkle in Time
Of Mice & Men
Romeo & Juliet
(parts of) Hitchhiker's Guide
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Tom Sawyer
Macbeth
(parts of) The Bible (mostly the Catholic version)
(parts of) Great Expectations
Sherlock Holmes (not sure if was the same stories, though)
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Princess Bride
The Raven
And Then There Were None
The Things They Carried
Phantom Tollbooth

And I've seen adaptations of (48 from that list):
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride & Prejudice (both regular & Zombies)
Harry Potter (all of them)
Lord of the Rings (all of them, live & animated)
Charlotte's Web (animated)
The Hobbit (live & animated)
Little Women (at least 2 versions)
Gone With the Wind
Book Thief
Hunger Games (all of them)
The Help
Chronicles of Narnia (animated Lion Witch & Wardrobe, all 3 live-actions)
Hamlet (stage & MST3K)
A Wrinkle in Time (both versions)
Of Mice & Men
A Tale of Two Cities (Wishbone)
Romeo & Juliet (stage & Wishbone)
The Secret Garden (2 versions)
A Christmas Carol (several versions)
The Little Prince
The Fault in Our Stars
Anne of Green Gables (2 versions)
Tom Sawyer (2 film versions & Wishbone)
Frankenstein (2 versions)
The Bible (various stories)
Count of Monte Cristo
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Alice in Wonderland (live & animated)
Watership Down
Sherlock Holmes (several versions)
Les Miserables (film musical)
Life of Pi
Scarlet Letter (Easy A)
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (both versions)
Dracula (several versions)
Princess Bride
The Odyssey (Wishbone)
The Good Earth
And Then There Were None (40s version)
Phantom Tollbooth
The Story of My Life (The Miracle Worker)

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

Zero of those in their entirety, and just a few at all. Out of them I've read the Bible the most, but it was out of order and likely around just 50%.

Second place probably goes to the first Lord of the Rings. I definitely got a couple chapters in. I think they met a talking tree or animal or something.

The only other books listed that I've even touched were Charlotte's Web as a kid (I don't remember anything about it) and the first Harry Potter (it read like a newspaper or something as I recall, very strange and boring, hardly got past the first page).

The ones I have the most interest in from that list are Orwell's books, as from what I gather they're rather insightful and very much relevant today. That said, I'm obviously just not much of a reader so I'll have to glean his wisdom through summaries.

[Booyakasha]

On the one hand, that list stinks---------anyone who thinks 'Beloved' is more worthy of people's attention than 'Moby-Dick' or 'Once and Future King' probably eats books instead of reading them.

...on the grudging other hand, I've spent the last week with my sister's kids, and when it comes right down to it, I'd rather see those little goons reading even Archie comics than just playing 'Minecraft' and 'Roblox' endlessly, which seems to be most of what they do for fun. (Hopefully it's just a phase.)