Here's an interesting list. How many have you read? Thanks to Ingrid Pierson for the link to the list (via Facebook). My wife and I each worked through the list. That she's read three more than me only surprises me because its not a
greater differential.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen XO
2 The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien XO
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte XO
4 Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling O
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee XO
6 The Bible XO (not all of it)
7 Wuthering Heights – X
8 1984 – George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman O
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens XO
Total: X=7, O=8
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott XO
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy XO
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller XO
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X (not all) O
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien O
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger XO
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger O
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot X
Total: X=6, O=7
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell O
22 The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald XO
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy O
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky XO
28 The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck XO
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Total: X=4, O=5
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy XO
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens O
33 The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis O
34 Emma – Jane Austen XO
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis O
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini XO
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden XO
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne XO
Total: X=5, O=8
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell X
42 The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown O
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez XO
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving XO
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy X
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding XO
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan XO
Total: X=6, O=5
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel XO
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen XO
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens XO
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon O
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez XO
Total: X=5, O=5
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck XO
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov X
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt O
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold O
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac X
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding O
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie O
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville X
Total: X=4, O=5
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens O
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce X
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray X
Total: X=2, O=1
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens XO
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker XO
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert XO
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White XO
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
Total: X=4, O=4
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad X
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery XO
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams XO
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole XO
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare XO
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Total: X=6, O=4
Grand Total X=49, O=52
X= Mike
O= Judy
