Book List Challenge

 Hello All, 

Lately I have  been feeling like I don't read enough.  So I want to do some thing about it.  I found the list below on facebook of all places.  It was supposedly a list from the BBC.  However, this has turned to be bogus.  Still, it is a pretty comprehensive list of all different types of books.  I have made few changes to the list.  I have switched out a couple of books ( I don't remember which) My goal is to read them all.  There are 100 books, however, this number doesn't take in to account that there are 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, 3 books in His Dark Materials and 37 Shakespeare plays.  I don't really have a time frame in mind right now.  But I would like to make my way through the list in a reasonable amount of time.

The Challenge is to read All the books on this list.  I will keep track of when I finished the book and give it a rating.  If it doesn't have a date, that means I had read the book before starting the challenge.

Here is the Rating System.

* = Didn't like it, barely made it through.
** = It was ok, took some effort to finish
*** = Liked this book.  An enjoyable Read
****= Couldn't Put it down.

I invite anyone who would like to, to join me in this challenge.  Just comment on this post and I will include your name and a link to your website/ blog.  I will let you all know what I am currently reading as I move through the list.

Happy Reading!

Currently Reading 

The Subtle Knife By Philip Pullman

I had started this book previously and really want to finish this series!

Retrophile's Book Challenge.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 Incidents in the Life of a Slace Girl- Harriet Jacobs
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
   -Golden Compass ****
   -Amber Spyglass ****
   - Subtle Knife
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien***
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot – maybe
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald ****
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll ****
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne ****
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown *
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck ***
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville *
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce **
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker **
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White ****
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Alborn
89 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl ***

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad started but never finished
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adam
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
99 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

     -A Scandal in Bohemia
     -The Adventure of the Red-Headed League
     -A Case of Identity
     -The Boscombe Valley Mystery
     -The Five Orange Pips
     -The Man with the Twisted Lip
     -The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
     -The Adventure of the Speckled Band
     -The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
     -The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
     -The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
     -The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

100 Complete Works of Shakespeare

     Comedies
    1-All's Well That Ends Well
     2-As You Like It ***
     3-Comedy of Errors
     4-Love's Labour's Lost
     5-Measure for Measure
     6-Merchant of Venice
     7-Merry Wives of Windsor
     8-Midsummer Night's Dream ****
     9-Much Ado about Nothing
     10-Taming of the Shrew ***
     11-Tempest
     12-Twelfth Night
     13-Two Gentlemen of Verona
     14-Winter's Tale
Histories
     15-Cymbeline
     16-Henry IV, Part I **
     17-Henry IV, Part II **
     18-Henry V
     19-Henry VI, Part I
     20-Henry VI, Part II
     21-Henry VI, Part III
     22-Henry VIII
     23-King John
     24-Pericles
     25-Richard II
     26-Richard III **
Tragedies
     27-Antony and Cleopatra
     28-Coriolanus
     29-Hamlet
     30-Julius Caesar
     31-King Lear
     32-Macbeth
     33-Othello
     34-Romeo and Juliet
     35-Timon of Athens
     36-Titus Andronicus ***
     37-Troilus and Cressida