101 Books to read before you die
- The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Kite Runner–Khaled Hosseini
Pride and Prejudice–Jane Austen(I think I want to read this one again...)
To Kill a Mockingbird–Harper Lee(This one too....)
- The Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
- The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Da Vinci Code–Dan Brown
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
- Spud – John van de Ruit
- The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
- Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Jane Eyre–Charlotte Bronte
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
My Sister’s Keeper–Jodi Picoult
- The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (Great movie!)
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
- Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Atonement – Ian McEwan (I got about halfway through this book...it was a bit of a hard read...but I will try again!)
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje (Another great movie!)
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- I Know This Much is True – Wally Lamb
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
- War And Peace – Leo Tolstoy (Seriously?!)
- Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M. Auel
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
- The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- Possession – A. S. Byatt
- Perfume – Patrick Suskind
- The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
- Chocolat – Joanne Harris
- The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith
- Q & A – Vikas Swarup
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
- Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
- River God – Wilbur Smith
Little Women–Louisa May Alcott(It's been ages since I read it, so I will read it again)
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe–C.S. Lewis
- Mort – Terry Pratchett
- Crime and Punishment – Feodor Dostoyevsky
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
- East of Eden – John Steinbeck
- The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The Other Boleyn Girl–Philippa Gregory(Great book!)
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
- The Prince of Tides – Pat Conroy
- Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
- Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding (hilarious movie! hehe!)
- The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm–George Orwell
- The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
- Watership Down – Richard Adams
- Magician – Raymond E Feist
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth
- We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
- The Magus – John Fowles
- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Agaat – Marlene van Niekerk
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (One of my favourite movies!)
- The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
- The Beach House – James Patterson
- Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
- Kringe in ‘n Bos – Dalene Matthee
- The World according to Garp – John Irving
- Northen Lights – Phillip Pullman
- Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
- Shades – Marguerite Poland
- Kane and Abel – Jeffrey Archer
- Fiela se kind – Dalene Matthee
- Story of an African Farm – Olive Schreiner
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- The Magic Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- Winnie-the-Pooh – A.A. Milne
I'm really excited to start reading!! I will try to review them as I get through them....we'll see how it goes! :) It will be a pretty long project I think, but it should be fun, and possibly educational! :)
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