I just finished telling people that I had no desire to do another "list of 100 titles" meme in my journal, and then sexychicken
1. | The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien | All books and movies |
2. | Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen | |
3. | His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman | |
4. | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams | All books/movies/TV/radio/Infocom game... |
5. | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling | All books and movies |
6. | To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee | Read the book |
7. | Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne | Read and seen as a kid, only bits thereafter |
8. | Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell | Book and movie |
9. | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis | All of the books, none of the movies (the old cartoon, though...) |
10. | Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë | |
11. | Catch-22, Joseph Heller | |
12. | Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë | |
13. | Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks | |
14. | Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier | |
15. | The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger | |
16. | The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame | Saw the Disney version |
17. | Great Expectations, Charles Dickens | Saw the South Park version |
18. | Little Women, Louisa May Alcott | |
19. | Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres | |
20. | War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy | |
21. | Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell | Some of the movie, none of the book |
22. | Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling | All books and movies |
23. | Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, J. K. Rowling | All books and movies |
24. | Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling | All books and movies |
25. | The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien | Book and cartoon |
26. | Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy | |
27. | Middlemarch, George Eliot | |
28. | A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving | |
29. | The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck | |
30. | Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll | Partial book, various screen adaptations |
31. | The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson | |
32. | One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garc¡a M rquez | |
33. | The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett | |
34. | David Copperfield, Charles Dickens | |
35. | Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl | Both books, both movies |
36. | Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson | Various film adaptations |
37. | A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute | |
38. | Persuasion, Jane Austen | |
39. | Dune, Frank Herbert | Six or seven of the books, 2½ screen adaptaions |
40. | Emma, Jane Austen | |
41. | Anne Of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery | |
42. | Watership Down, Richard Adams | Book and cartoon |
43. | The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald | Book |
44. | The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas | Book (huge unabridged) and multiple adaptations (including anime) |
45. | Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh | |
46. | Animal Farm, George Orwell | Two different movie versions |
47. | A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens | Book, untold screen adaptations |
48. | Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy | |
49. | Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian | |
50. | The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher | |
51. | The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
52. | Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck | |
53. | The Stand, Stephen King | Both versions of the novel, and the miniseries |
54. | Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy | |
55. | A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth | |
56. | The BFG, Roald Dahl | I'm not sure which Dahl books I have and haven't read. There were several |
57. | Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome | |
58. | Black Beauty, Anna Sewell | |
59. | Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer | |
60. | Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Nope, but I wrote a paper on it anyway. |
61. | Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman | |
62. | Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden | |
63. | A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens | |
64. | The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough | |
65. | Mort, Terry Pratchett | Read this and many other the Discworld books |
66. | The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton | |
67. | The Magus, John Fowles | |
68. | Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman | Read it |
69. | Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett | Read this and many other the Discworld books |
70. | Lord Of The Flies, William Golding | Read it |
71. | Perfume, Patrick Süskind | |
72. | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell | |
73. | Night Watch, Terry Pratchett | Read this and many other the Discworld books |
74. | Matilda, Roald Dahl | I'm not sure which Dahl books I have and haven't read. There were several |
75. | Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding | |
76. | The Secret History, Donna Tartt | |
77. | The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins | |
78. | Ulysses, James Joyce | |
79. | Bleak House, Charles Dickens | |
80. | Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson | |
81. | The Twits, Roald Dahl | I'm not sure which Dahl books I have and haven't read. There were several |
82. | I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith | |
83. | Holes, Louis Sachar | |
84. | Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake | |
85. | The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy | |
86. | Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson | |
87. | Brave New World, Aldous Huxley | Read it. |
88. | Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons | |
89. | Magician, Raymond E Feist | |
90. | On The Roda, Jack Kerouac | |
91. | The Godfather, Mario Puzo | Neither read the books nor saw the movies. |
92. | The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel | |
93. | The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett | Read this and many other the Discworld books |
94. | The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho | |
95. | Katherine, Anya Seton | |
96. | Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer | |
97. | Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garc¡a M rquez | |
98. | Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson | |
99. | The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot | |
100. | Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie | |
101. | Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome | |
102. | Small Gods, Terry Pratchett | I'm not sure about this one. Discworld? |
103. | The Beach, Alex Garland | |
104. | Dracula, Bram Stoker | Read it, and screen adaptations. |
105. | Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz | |
106. | The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens | |
107. | Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz | |
108. | The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks | |
109. | The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth | |
110. | The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson | |
111. | Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy | |
112. | The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾, Sue Townsend | |
113. | The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat | |
114. | Les Misérables, Victor Hugo | Saw the musical on Broadway |
115. | The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy | |
116. | The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson | |
117. | Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson | |
118. | The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde | Read it |
119. | Shogun, James Clavell | Saw the miniseries when it originally aired |
120. | The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham | |
121. | Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson | |
122. | Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray | |
123. | The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy | |
124. | House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski | |
125. | The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver | |
126. | Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett | |
127. | Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison | |
128. | The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle | I've read every Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
129. | Possession, A. S. Byatt | |
130. | The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov | |
131. | The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood | Book and movie |
132. | Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl | I'm not sure which Dahl books I have and haven't read. There were several |
133. | East Of Eden, John Steinbeck | |
134. | George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl | |
135. | Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett | Read this and many other the Discworld books |
136. | The Color Purple, Alice Walker | |
137. | Hogfather, Terry Pratchett | Read this and many other the Discworld books |
138. | The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan | |
139. | Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson | |
140. | Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson | |
141. | All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque | |
142. | Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson | |
143. | High Fidelity, Nick Hornby | |
144. | It, Stephen King | Book and miniseries |
145. | James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl | Just the movie |
146. | The Green Mile, Stephen King | Just the book (in six separate pieces) |
147. | Papillon, Henri Charriere | |
148. | Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett | I'm not sure about this one. Discworld? |
149. | Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian | Movie |
150. | Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz | |
151. | Soul Music, Terry Pratchett | |
152. | Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett | |
153. | The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett | Read this and many other the Discworld books |
154. | Atonement, Ian McEwan | |
155. | Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson | |
156. | The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier | |
157. | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey | Book and movie, multiple times each |
158. | Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad | Read it |
159. | Kim, Rudyard Kipling | |
160. | Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon | |
161. | Moby Dick, Herman Melville | |
162. | River God, Wilbur Smith | |
163. | Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon | |
164. | The Shipping News, Annie Proulx | |
165. | The World According To Garp, John Irving | Book and movie |
166. | Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore | |
167. | Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson | |
168. | The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye | |
169. | The Witches, Roald Dahl | I belive so |
170. | Charlotte's Web, E. B. White | Book and movie, not the sequel |
171. | Frankenstein, Mary Shelley | Book and various adaptations |
172. | They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams | |
173. | The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway | |
174. | The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco | Movie |
175. | Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder | |
176. | Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson | |
177. | Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl | |
178. | Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov | |
179. | Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach | |
180. | The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exup‚ry | Book |
181. | The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson | |
182. | Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens | Various screen adaptations |
183. | The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay | |
184. | Silas Marner, George Eliot | |
185. | American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis | |
186. | The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith | |
187. | Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh | Movie |
188. | Goosebumps, R. L. Stine | |
189. | Heidi, Johanna Spyri | |
190. | Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence | |
191. | The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera | |
192. | Man And Boy, Tony Parsons | |
193. | The Truth, Terry Pratchett | |
194. | The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells | Book and various adaptations |
195. | The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans | |
196. | A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry | |
197. | Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett | |
198. | The Once And Future King, T. H. White | |
199. | The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle | |
200. | Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews | And some sequels |