Book Challenge
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.
* = 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.
* = 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!
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 ****
-Subtle Knife ****
- Amber Spyglass
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
89Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl ***
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
- Amber Spyglass
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
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
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
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
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
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
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
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
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
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Alborn
89
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
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
-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
1-All's Well That Ends Well
3-Comedy of Errors
4-Love's Labour's Lost
5-Measure for Measure
6-Merchant of Venice
7-Merry Wives of Windsor
9-Much Ado about Nothing
11-Tempest
12-Twelfth Night
13-Two Gentlemen of Verona
14-Winter's Tale
Histories
15-Cymbeline
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
Tragedies
27-Antony and Cleopatra
28-Coriolanus
29-Hamlet
30-Julius Caesar
31-King Lear
32-Macbeth
33-Othello
35-Timon of Athens
37-Troilus and Cressida
