100 books to read before you die

[Lizzie]

Yep, stolen from the movie thread! Same rules apply, I think. For series (such as LotR) that the author intended to be seen as one, I think it only counts for one. HP is 6 books. Please include the author!


1984 - George Orwell

A Game of Thrones - George R.R Martin
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume,
Among the Hidden - Margaret Peterson
Angel's Blood - Nalini Singh

Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson

The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger,
Club Dead - Charmaine Harris
Cross Stitch (US Outlander) - Diana Gabaldon

The da Vinci Code - Dan Brown,
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay,
The Bible (Book of Genesis)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby

Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik,
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
The Giver - Lois Lowry

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner from Azkaban - J.K Rowling
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

It - Stephen King,
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott.

Legend by David Gemell
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott,
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien,
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov,
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

Mindhunter - John Douglas,
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett,
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides,
Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way - Bruce Campbell.

Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
On Dangerous Ground - Jack Higgens,
The Outsiders - S.E. Hilton

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Rick Riorden
Pride and Prejudice-- Jane Austen

Red Dragon - Thomas Harris,
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare,

Sahara - Clive Cussler,
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions - Neil Gaiman
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Thunderpoint - Jack Higgens,
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee, The Things
They Carried - Tim O'Brien,
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
Tomorrow, When the War Began - John Marsden

The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice

Wicked - Gregory Maguire.
Wheel of Time Book 1 "The Eye of the World" - Robert Jordon

edit: Updated up to number 52.

[Beck]

Thunderpoint, by Jack Higgens

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

[Allan]

Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik

[Beck]

I'm going to just ask, can we do this book by book and not lump books in as 'series'? Because a lot of books I like, they have loads of books in a series, but they are seperate stories. Same with HP, I think all books should be classed on individual merit and not in a series

[ryley]

I think that's a better way of doing it

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.

[Beck]

Yup so I'll hold off choosing any HP book until Liz picks which one she's choosing.

On Dangerous Ground, by Jack Higgens

[Bre]

The da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

[buffymanic]

can plays count? or is it strictly fiction books?

If it counts: Romeo & Juliet- William Shakespear

[Shaun]

It, Stephen King

[Bre]

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

(sorry Beck but I think that one should count as one because you can't read one without the other and Tolkien intended for it to be one book anyway. I could change it but then I wouldn't recommend the book because you shouldn't read one and not the others)

Or am I doing that just to give you a hard time?!

6/50

[Alissa]

Pride and Prejudice-- Jane Austen

[Laura]

The Outsiders- S.E. Hilton

[Amber]

Wicked by Gregory Maguire.

[Beck]

Sahara - Clive Cussler

[Lizzie]

To Kill A Mockingbird (15)

[Loz]

Aren't we meant to put the author as well?

Mindhunter - John Douglas

[Lizzie]

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger (17)

[Alissa]

The Things They Carried-- Tim O'Brien

[Lizzie]

1984 by George Orwell (19)