Top 100 Books

[absdax]

ezzles posted this on her journal and i was also curious as to how many I'd read and seen...

 According to Angus & Robertson, these are Australia's top 100 favourite books. I thought it'd be interesting to see how many I've read and/or seen the movie of. Bold means I've read it, italics means I've seen the movie or Tv version, bold italics means I've read it AND seen it.

1) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
2) The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (cos i seen the BBC version will see film soon)
4) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
6) Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
7) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
8) My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
9) Tomorrow When The War Began - John Marsden
10) Magician - Raymond E. Feist
11) The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
12) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling (will get italics soon...yay, new movie!)
13) The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
14) Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
15) Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
16) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
17) The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
18) April Fool's Day - Bryce Courtenay
19) Tully - Paullina Simons
20) Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
21) The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
22) The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
23) Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
24) The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
25) Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Alborn
26) Perfume - Patrick Suskind
27) The Bible (italicsed because of movies like The Passion of the Christ, based on bits of it )
28) The Bride Stripped Bare - Anon
29) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K.Rowling
30) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
31) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (seen BBC version)
32) Cross Stitch - Diana Gabaldon
33) Looking For Alibrandi - Marlena Marchetta
34) Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
35) Secret History - Donna Tartt
36) Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
37) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
38) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy - Douglas Adams
39) Jessica - Bryce Courtenay
40) The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
41) The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
42) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43) One For The Money - Janet Evanovich
44) Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
45) The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
46) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
47) Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - Helen Fielding
48) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
49) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
50) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51) The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
52) The Poet - Michael Connelly
53) A Child Called It - Dave Pelzer
54) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
55) On The Road - Jack Kerouac
56) Tell No One - Harlan Coben
57) 1984 - George Orwell
58) Almost French - Sarah Turnbull
59) An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
60) The Ancient Future: The Dark Age - Traci Harding
61) The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
62) The Day After Tomorrow - Allan Folsom
63) Desert Flower - Waris Dirie
64) The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
65) The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
66) Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik
67) A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey
68) Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
69) The Godfather - Mario Puzo
70) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
71) The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans
72) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
73) Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
74) The Pact - Jodi Piccoult
75) The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
76) Wild Swans - Jung Chang
77) Animal Farm - George Orwell (thats english lessons for ya!!)
78) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
79) Atonement - Ian McEwan
80) Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
81) Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
82) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
83) Emma - Jane Austen
84) Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
85) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
86) The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
87) Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
88) It - Stephen King
89) Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
90) Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mahmoody
91) Plain Truth - Jodi Piccoult
92) First To Die - James Patterson
93) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
94) Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
95) Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb
96) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
97) The Potato Factory - Bryce Courtenay
98) The Redemption of Althalus - David Eddings
99) Retribution - Jilliane Hoffman
100) River God - Wilbur Smith

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