I found this great list on Habitual's blog. I really like the idea of reading the classics so lets see how I do.
Instructions:  
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.  
2) Underline those you intend to read.  
3) Italicize the books you LOVE.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen   
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien    
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte    
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling       
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee        
6 The Bible    
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte    
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell    
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (just book 1)    
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens    
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott    
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy    
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller    
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare  
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier    
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien    
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks    
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger     
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger    
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot    
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell    
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald    
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens    
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy    
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams    
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh    
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky    
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck    
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll    
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame    
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy    
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens    
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis    
34 Emma - Jane Austen    
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen    
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis    
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini     
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres    
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden    
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne    
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell    
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown    
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez    
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins    
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery    
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy    
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood    
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding     
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan    
52 Dune - Frank Herbert    
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons    
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen    
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth    
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon    
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens    
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley    
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon    
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez    
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck    
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov    
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt    
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold    
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas    
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac    
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy    
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding     
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie    
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville    
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens    
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker    
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett    
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson    
75 Ulysses - James Joyce    
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath    
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome    
78 Germinal - Emile Zola    
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray    
80 Possession - AS Byatt    
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens    
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell    
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker     
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro    
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert    
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry    
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White     
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom     
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle    
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton    
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad    
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery       
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks    
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams    
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole    
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute    
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas    
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare    
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl     
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I didn't do very well, but now I know what I should be reading... A great resolution for the new year.
 
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