Books For A Year

Here’s the list of books I’m going to attempt to tackle in 2010.

(Legend: Strikethrough = Read; Red Strikethrough = Will not attempt; Blue = Especially looking forward to)

Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold – Finished
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden – Finished (no post)
Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
Possession, AS Byatt
The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger – Finished
Notes From A Small Island, Bill Bryson
Dracula, Bram Stoker – Finished
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Bleak House , Charles Dickens
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Shadow of the Wind, Charlos Ruiz Zafon
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Charlotte’s Webb, EB White
Germinal, Emile Zola
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The Faraway Tree Collection, Enid Blyton
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dune, Frank Herbert
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell
Animal Farm , George Orwell
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
Atonement, Ian McEwan
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
Ulysses, James Joyce
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen – Finished
Emma , Jane Austen
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
Harry Potter Series, JK Rowling
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Wind in the Willows , Kenneth Grahame
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini – Finished
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy – unsure
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis De Bernieres
Little Women, Louisa M Alcott
Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulk
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
The Bible
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Women in White, Wilkie Collins
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Life of Pi, Yann Martel