Top 100 Books

These are the Whitcoulls top 100 books & I have read a few of them, but there are some I haven't read that have always been on my "to read at some stage" list, for instance the whole Harry Potter series.



The ones in blue are the ones I have read.



1. Lord of the rings / JRR Tolkien

2. My sister's keeper / Jodi Picoult

3. Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen

4. Cross stitch / Diana Gabaldon

5. Harry Potter & the dealthy hallows / JK Rowling

6. The bronze horseman / Paullina Simons

7. The Da Vinci code / Dan Brown

8. The power of one / Bryce Courtenay

9. The pillars of the earth / Ken Follet

10. The other Boleyn girl / Phillipa Gregory

11. The lovely bones: a novel / Alice Sebold

12. To kill a mocking bird / Harper Lee

13. The kite runner / Khaled Hosseini

14. The time traveler's wife / Audrey Niffenegger

15. Holy Bible - not all of it word for word

16. The hobbit / J R R Tolkien

17. Magician / Raymond Feist

18. The clan of the cave bear / Jean M Auel

19. Nineteen minutes / Jodi Piccoult

20. Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell

21. Angels and Demons / Dan Brown

22. Harry Potter and the half-blood prince / J K Rowling

23. The Poisonwood bible / Barbara Kingsolver

24. Into the wilderness / Sara Donati

25. A thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini

26. Life of Pi / Yann Martel

27. Memoirs of a geisha / Arthur Golden

28. Jessica / Bryce Courtenay

29. Birdsong / Sebastian Faulks

30. Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone / J K Rowling

31. Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix / J K Rowling

32. A fine balance / Rohinton Mistry

33. The lion, the witch and the wardrobe / C S Lewis

34. Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte

35. Rachel's holiday / Marian Keyes

36. The memory keeper's daughter / Kim Edwards

37. Shantaram: a novel / Gregory Roberts

38. Pact: a love story / Jodi Picoult

39. Tea Rose / Jennifer Donnelly

40. Change of heart / Jodi Picoult

41. Angela's ashes / Frank McCourt

42. Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones

43. The girl in Times Square / Paullina Simons

44. Twilight / Stephanie Meyer

45. This charming man / Marian Keyes

46. Wuthering heights / Emily Bronte
47. River God / Wilbur Smith

48. The Persimmon Tree / Bryce Courtenay

49. World without end / Ken Follet

50. Dune / Frank Herbert

51. Wild Swans: three daughters of China / Jung Chang

52. April Fools Day / Bryce Courtenay

53. Atonement / Ian McEwan

54. The bone garden / Tess Gerritsen

55. The alchemist / Paulo Coelho

56. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / J K Rowling

57. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Askaban / J K Rowling

58. Sushi for beginners / Marian Keyes

59. The curious incident of the don in the night-time / Mark Haddon

60. Catcher in the rye / J D Salinger

61. I know this much is true / Wally Lamb

62. Eragon / Christopher Paolini

63. Tomorrow with the war began / John Marsden

64. Northern lights / Philip Pullman

65. Captain Corelli's mandolin / Louis De Bernieres

66. Kane and Abel / Jeffrey Archer

67. Tully / Paullina Simons

68. Catch -22 / Joseph Heller

69. No. 1 ladies detective agency / Alexander McCall Smith

70. Watermelon / Marian Keyes

71. We need to talk about Kevin / Lionel Shriver

72. Anybody out there / Marian Keyes

73. Chocolat / Joanne Harris

74. Winter Rose / Jennifer Donnelly

75. Denniston Rose / Jenny Pattrick

76. Killing Floor / Lee Child

77. A really short history of nearly everything / Bill Bryson

78. Anne of Green Gables / L M Montgomery

79. Nothing to lose / Lee Child

80. The secret / Rhonda Byrne

81. The book thief/ Markus Zusak

82. Galaxy / Douglas Adams

83. The stand / Stephen King

84. Edmonds Cookery Book / Edmonds - not every recipe has been read but it is well used in my kitchen

85. The potato factory / Bryce Courtenay

86. Lucy Sullivan is getting married / Marian Keyes

87. The vinter's luck / Elizabeth Knox

88. The red tent / Anita Diamant

89. Bridget Jone's diary: a novel / Helen Fielding

90. The Penguin history of New Zealand / Michael King (It's on my bookshelf!)

91. London / Edward Rutherford

92. The god of small things / Arundhati Roy

93. The shipping news / Annie E Proulx

94. Four fires / Bryce Courtenay

95. Mao's last dancer / Li Gunxin

96. Last chance saloon / Marian Keyes

97. Plain truth / Jodi Picoult

98. Perfume: the story of a murderer / Patrick Suskind

99. The Thorn birds / Colleen McCullough

100. The notebook / Nicholas Spark
Thanks to Penny for this list



I have read a quarter of those books, that's not bad. Now I just want to read the other three quarters should I start with Harry Potter?