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In 2007, 2,000 people who took part in the poll online at worldbookday.com nominated their top 10 titles that they could not live without. The result is a compilation of the top 100 books. Agree or Disagree, Which books have you read or plan to read?
1. Put an (x) after those you have read.
2. Put (#) those you plan on reading.
3. Put (~) next to those you didn't finish reading for whatever reason.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [x]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x]
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman []
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [x]
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller []
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [x] Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk []
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [x]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot []
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [x]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x]
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [~]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens []
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [x]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [~]
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis[x]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini []
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres []
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [x]
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 [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy []
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood []
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [x]
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [#]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [x]
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons []
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen[x]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth []
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [ ]
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x]
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 [x]
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [~]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal - Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt []
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell []
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [x]
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 [x]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom []
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton []
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad []
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x]
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks []
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams [x]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole []
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [ ]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas []x
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [x]
1. Put an (x) after those you have read.
2. Put (#) those you plan on reading.
3. Put (~) next to those you didn't finish reading for whatever reason.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling[x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible [x]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x]
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell [x]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman []
10 Great Expectation - Charles Dickens [x]
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller []
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [x] Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk []
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [x]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot []
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [x]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x]
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [~]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens []
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x]
34 Emma - Jane Austen [x]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [~]
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis[x]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini []
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres []
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [x]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [x]
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 [x]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy []
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood []
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [x]
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [#]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [x]
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons []
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen[x]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth []
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [ ]
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x]
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 [x]
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x]
62 - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [~]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [x]
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal - Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x]
80 Possession - AS Byatt []
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell []
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [x]
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 [x]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom []
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton []
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad []
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x]
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks []
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams [x]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole []
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [ ]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas []x
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [x]
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Quote by Rumple_deWriter
In addition to the warm feeling commenters no doubt get for supporting other writers there's another benefit that comes to the commenter, honest.
A comment on the writing forces the person giving the comment to actually think like a writer. While 'atta boys' and 'way to go' are okay, they don't require any thoughts on the quality of the writing. If, in your considered opinion, the story sucks, just move on. Save 'constructive criticism' for PM's. But taking a minute to mention something you thought was well done is a goodness both for the those getting the comment and for those doing the giving.
Give commenting on stories and poems a try. It won't hurt much, probably.
I am awful at this. I overthink it and feel like everything I say will sound stupid, but you are absolutely right. I really should start voting and commenting more. It's always nice to hear praise for your hard work.
