Top 100 Books

I was reading Red Dirt Mummy and she mentioned her post here that the West Australian newspaper recently released a list of Top 100 books as voted by their readers, and highlighted how many of those she had read.

I've decided to do the same and my result is 7 out of 100 (the ones I've read are in bold below).  Very poor indeed!  However, I'm part way through two series mentioned on the list (Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis), in the middle of Maralinga by Judy Nunn, and I have The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, and Tuscan Rose by Belinda Alexandra in my bookshelf ready.

The Top 100 List

1. The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
2. Harry Potter 1-7 by J.K. Rowling
3. The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
8. Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris
9. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
10. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
11. Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
12. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
13. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
14. 61 Hours by Lee Child
15. Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb
16. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
17. The Silent Sea by Clive Cussler
18. Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
19. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
20. Tuscan Rose by Belinda Alexandra
21. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
22. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
23. The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose
24. Ransom by David Malouf
25. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
26. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
27. Magician by Raymond E. Feist
28. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
29. House Rules by Jodi Picoult
30. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
31. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
32. Marley & Me by John Grogan
33. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls Jane Austen & Steve
34. Breath by Tim Winton
35. The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
36. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
37. The People's Train by Thomas Keneally
38. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
39. Truth by Peter Temple
40. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
41. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
42. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
43. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
44. The Book of Emmett by Deborah Forster
45. Ice Station by Matthew Reilly
46. The Road by Cormac Macarthy
47. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
48. Persuasion by Jane Austen
49. Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
50. Atonement by Ian McEwan
51. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
52. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
53. The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
54. April Fool's Day by Bryce Courtenay
55. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
56. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
57. The Pact by Jodi Picoult
58. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
59. Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
60. Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox
61. Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly
62. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
63. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
64. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Burrows
65. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
66. Solar by Ian McEwan
67. Fallen by Lauren Kate
68. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
69. P.S. I Love You by Cecila Ahern
70. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
71. Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody
72. A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey
73. Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
74. Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
75. Dirt Music by Tim Winton
76. It by Stephen King
77. Hourglass by Claudia Gray
78. Tully by Paullina Simons
79. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
80. Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts
81. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
82. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
83. Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton
84. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
85. Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
86. Animal Farm by George Orwell
87. The Six Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly
88. The Five Greatest Warriors by Matthew Reilly
89. Maralinga by Judy Nunn
90. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
91. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
92. Worst Case by James Patterson
93. Once in a Lifetime by Cathy Kelly
94. The Stand by Stephen King
95. Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes
96. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
97. Temple by Matthew Reilly
98. All That Remains by Patricia Cornwall
99. The Slap by Christos Tsolkias
100. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Maybe one day my book will make it onto that list.  I can only dream...

How many have you read and which ones?