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Jeffrey (wordsmith2294) | 26 comments I've read each of these:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
The Bible by Various
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Outsider by Albert Camus
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I have these left:
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Way We Live Now by Antony Trollope
Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

That means I'm over halfway! My favorite is a tie between Harry Potter and Ulysses. Least favorite is A Bend in the River (racism abounds and it's too cynical to be enjoyable, even if the writing is beautiful).


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