The Bookworm Chronicles

The Rules: 

• No particular order: I can read any book I want as long as it is on this list.  
• No pressure:  There is no time line to complete this list as some books may take longer to read
• No cheating: I commit to read each book, even if I don’t like it.

You are welcome to join me in this adventure! 

Started October 2007

1. Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes                                                      
2. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
3. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
4. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift - I’m done, finally.  That guy had to be crazy!  I liked it better as a children’s book.  I fell asleep every-time I read it. I’m tired just thinking about it. Next. Finished 10/07
5. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
6. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
7. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
8. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
9. Emma – Jane Austen
10. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
11. Nightmare Abbey – Thomas Love
12. The Black Sheep – Honore De Balzac
13. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
14. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
15. Sybil – Benjamin Disraeli
16. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
17. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte   In a word… DRAMA!  I kept thinking to myself as I read this, “I think I’ve seen this story before on a badly written soap opera.”  I had a hard time keeping up with at first were all of the characters that were named after each other.  Heathcliff has to be the most miserable man I’ve ever read.  I couldn’t even feel sorry that he lost Catherine to Edgar.  Finished 11/07   
18. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte-CURRENTLY READING finished 9/20/09   What a heartwrenching story, but also amazing how Jane’s life’s tragedies and struggles never hardened her heart.  She never lost sight of who she was and what was right.  I admire her for it.  Thankgoodness it had a happy ending!  She deserved it!
19. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
20. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
22. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
23. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
24. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
25. Little Women – Louisa M. Alcott- I can honestly say now that I LOVE this book.  It is warm, touching and funny all at the same time and the characters are so loveable.  This is definitely a book you should read before you see the movie, it’s just so much better.  Beth is still my favorite of the four sisters. Finished 12/07
26. The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope
27. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy CURRENTLY READING: STARTED 10/09 (THIS ONE WILL TAKE ME AWHILE)
28. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
29. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
31. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
32. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson-An easy read once I got started.  An interesting story of the moral and the sinful nature of man.  Romans 7:20 “Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.” Finished 10/07
33. Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
35. The Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith
36. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
37. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
38. The Call of the Wild – Jack London Finished 9/09.  I enjoyed this story, but probably shouldn’t have read it the week we put our beloved husky dog to sleep.  Any dog lover would appreciate this book.
39. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
40. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
41. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
42. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
43. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
44. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
45. Ulysses – James Joyce
46. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
47. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
48. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. The Trial – Franz Kafka
50. Men Without Women – Ernest Hemingway
51. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Celine
52. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
53. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
54. Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
55. USA – John Dos Passos
56. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
57. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
58. The Plague – Albert Camus
59. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
60. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
61. Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
62. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
63. Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White – I read this a lot growing up.  I still have my original copy.  My favorite book.
64. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
65. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
66. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
67. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
68. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
69. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
70. The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
71. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
73. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee- I read this in High School and loved it.  Beautifully written.
74. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
75. Herzog – Saul Bellow
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
77. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont – Elizabeth Taylor
78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carre
79. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
80. The Bottle Factory Outing – Beryla Bainbridge
81. The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer
82. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
83. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
84. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
85. Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
86. Lanark – Alasdair Gray
87. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
88. The BFG – Roald Dahl
89. The Periodic Table – Primo Levi
90. Money – Martin Amis
91. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
92. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
94. Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie
95. LA Confidential – James Ellroy
96. Wise Children – Angela Carter
97. Atonement – Ian McEwan
98. Northern Lights – Philip Pullman
99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
100. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald