MEME: Top 100 Books of All Time!

Stolen from here (I’m only using the top 100 because 778 is way too big). I’m going to mix up the rules a bit this time.

Rules:

• Bold the titles you’ve read.
• Italicize the titles you really want to read.
• Put ** by titles you hated or couldn’t finish reading or won’t read again.
• If you’ve read the book more than once, put the number of times you’ve read it in ( )s somewhere.
• Tag people.

I’m tagging SQT, Tia, and Carraka. Anyone else who wants to do this is more than welcome.

Here goes:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (2)
2. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
3. 1984 by George Orwell (5)
4. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (3)
5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
6. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (3)
7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
8. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
9. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (2)
10. Night by Elie Wiesel
11. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
12. The Bible
13. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
15. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
16. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
18. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
19. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
20. Dune by Frank Herbert
21. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
23. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
24. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
25. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
26. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
27. The Stand by Stephen King**
28. Ulysses by James Joyce
29. Paradise Lost by John Milton** (2)
30. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
31. Watership Down byRichard Adams
32. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
33. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
34. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
35. Roots by Alex Haley
36. The Giver by Lois Lowry
37. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (3)
38. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
39. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
40. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
41. Animal Farm by George Orwell
42. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
43. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
44. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
45. The World According to Garp by John Irving
46. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
47. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
48. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
49. Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
50. King Lear by William Shakespeare
51. A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
52. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
53. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
54. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
55. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer** (3)
56. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
57. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
58. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
59. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
60. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
61. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
62. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri (2)
63. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
64. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
65. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
66. Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann
67. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling**
68. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
69. The Trial by Franz Kafka
70. Ada by Vladimir Nabokov
71. Middlemarch by George Elliot
72. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
73. Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
74. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
75. The Way Things Work by David Macauly
76. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
77. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
78. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
79. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
80. Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo
81. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
82. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berndt
83. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
84. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
85. My Name is Asher by Lev Chaim Potok
86. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
87. A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
88. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
89. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
90. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
91. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
92. Neuromancer by William Gibson
93. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
94. Prufrock and Other Observations by T.S. Eliot
95. Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams
96. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
97. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
98. Exodus by Leon Uris
99. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl
100. Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick

And there you go. So I’ve read a pathetic 29 of the 100 on this list. Very sad indeed.

What about you?