Briony's List

Here's my list! It's made up of books I've been meaning to read but haven't, books I think I should have read, books that have won awards, and Australian books I haven't read (which is a horrifyingly large number and makes me a Bad Australian)

1. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
2. The Iliyad - Homer
3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
4. The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
5. Ulysses - James Joyce
6. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
7. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
8. Animal Farm - George Orwell
9. Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
10. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
11. Persuasion - Jane Austen
12. The Boat - Nam Le
13. My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
14. Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
15. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
16. Dirt Music - Tim Winton
17. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
18. 1984 - George Orwell
19. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
20. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
21. Middlemarch - George Eliot
22. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
23. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
24. The White Earth - Andrew McGhan
25. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
26. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
28. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
29. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
30. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
31. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
32. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
33. Everything I Knew - Peter Goldsworthy
34. Wanting - Richard Flannagan
35. A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
36. Schindlers Ark - Thomas Kennally
37. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
38. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
39. The Eye in the Door - Pat Barker
40. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
41. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
42. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
43. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
44. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchel
45. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
46. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
47. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
48. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
49. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
52. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
53. 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
54. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
55. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
56. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
57. The Monkeys Mask - Dorothy Porter
58. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
59. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
60. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
61. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
62. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
63. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
64. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
65. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
66. The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
67. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
68. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
69. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
70. The Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver
71. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
72. Watership Down - Richard Adams
73. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
74. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
75. The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
76. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
77. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
78. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
79. Tbe Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
80. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
81. The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
82. March - Geraldine Brooks
83. The Thornbirds - Colleen McCullough
84. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
85. Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides
86. Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
87. The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
88. Sophie’s Choice - William Styron
89. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
90. The Gathering - Anne Enright
91. Life & Times of Michael K - J M Coetzee
92. The Sea – John Banville
93. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
94. The Divine Comedy - Dante
95. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
96. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
97. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
98. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
99. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
100. Breakfast at Tiffanys - Truman Capote