Good day lovely people. Today I am bringing you a list of my top hundred favourite books. These aren't necessarily the greatest books ever, but simply the ones I like best and that I would most like to re-read. The only rule is a maximum of one book per author. This list is changeable!
Let me know what you think of my list and comment your own personal top three!
1. Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkein
2. The Three Musketeers, by Alexander Dumas
3. Cider House Rules, by John Irving
4. Crime and Punishment, Fyedor Dostoyesvsky
5. Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
6. A Song of Ice and Fire, by GRR Martin
7. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
8. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
9. David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
10. Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
11. A Fraction of the Whole, by Steve Toltz
12. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
13. Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake
14. Villette, by Charlotte Bronte
15. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
16. Matilda, by Roald Dahl
17. A Secret History, Donna Tartt
18. Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger
19. Human Traces, by Sebastian Faulks
20. Jane of Lantern Hill, by LM Montgomery
21. The Honey Siege, by Gil Buhet
22. Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
23. The Grand Meaulnes, by Alain-Fournier
24. All Quiet on the Western Front, by E.M. Remarque
25. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
26. Sunset Song, by Lewis Grassic Gibbons
27. The Scarlet and the Black, by Stendahl
28. The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
29. Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges
30. A Pair of Blue Eyes, by Thomas Hardy
31. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
32. The 39 Steps, by John Buchan
33. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
34. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
35. Miss Wyoming, by Douglas Coupland
36. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
37. The Time Traveller’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenberger
38. The Dice Man, by Luke Rinehart
39. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
40. Bonjour Tristesse, by Francoise Sagan
41. Pollyanna, by Eleanor Porter
42. Girl with the Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier
43. Mike and Psmith, by P.G. Wodehouse
44. As I walked out one Midsummer morning, by Laurie Lee
45. Zigzag Street, by Nick Earls
46. Journey to the River Sea, by Eva Ibbotsen
47. Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
48. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
49. Room with a view, by EM Forster
50. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
51. Jamaica Inn, by Daphne du Maurier
52. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
53. Stoneheart, by Charlie Fletcher
54. A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
55. Perfume, by Patrick Suskind
56. White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
57. Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre
58. Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami
59. Espedair Street, by Iain Banks
60. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
61. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, by Kiran Desai
62. Little Women, by Louisa M. Alcott
63. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khalid Hosseni
64. The Beach, by Alex Garland
65. The History of Mr Polly, by H.G. Wells
66. The Prisoner of Azkaban, by J K Rowling
67. By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept, by Elizabeth Smart
68. North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell
69. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce
70. Petronille, by Amelie Nothomb
71. Beau Geste, by PC Wren
72. Five people you meet in heaven, by Mitch Albom
73. Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafön
74. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
75. Native son, by Richard Wright
76. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
77. The Wall and the Wing, by Laura Ruby
78. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
79. The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope
80. Therese Raquin, by Emile Zola
81. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte
82. The Buddha of Suburbia, by Hanif Kureshi
83. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
84. Any Human Heart, by William Boyd
85. Middlemarch, by George Eliot
86. Eugenie Grandet, by Honore de Balzac
87. Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
88. The Grass Harp, by Truman Capote
89. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
90. Manon Lescaut, by Abbe Prévost
91. The Heart of a Dog, by Mikael Bulgakov
92. Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
93. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
94. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
95. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
96. Goodbye to all that, by Robert Graves
97. The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
98. Sidharrta, by Herman Hesse
99. The Colour Purple, by Alice Walker
100. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
That’s a very fine list Mr P&B! But don’t torture me asking for my top three.
This is a great list, I've only read about 50% of these and there are many on my tbr list. I'd have to think long and hard about my own top three but Wuthering Heights would definitely be one of them. Also possibly Anne Frank's Diary, and The White Hotel by D.M Thomas, which is an uncomfortable but unforgettable read.