I also came up with my own key and have a note of explanation: I got a jumpstart on some of these titles because a high school English teacher gave me a list of 100 books a college graduate should have read by graduation (on a piece of paper photocopied from some book, not off the internet, which was at the time still restricted to colleges and research institutions). Hats off to motivational English teachers! Since I didn't have a social life, I read two books a week to get through the list. Needless to say, I could not pass a pop quiz on a number of those, except for the ones I reread as an adult. I'd hazard a guess that that list had better titles than this list. Also, joining book clubs has upped the number of contemporary titles I've read - and also forgotten much of, aside from rudimentary plot elements. So even though I've read 79 of the books, I can't really claim to "know" more than maybe a third.
Haven't read
Read it
Read it
Reread*
Read in high school
or before
LOVE
Interested in
reading, based on what I know of it
Saw the movie
- To Kill a
Mockingbird*
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Fellowship of the Ring*
- Pride and Prejudice*
- Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone
- Romeo and Juliet*
- Jane Eyre*
- 1984
- Hamlet*
- The Hobbit*
- Brave New World
- The Lion, The
Witch, and the Wardrobe*
- The Great Gatsby*
- The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn*
- Fahrenheit 451
- Wuthering Heights*
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*
- The Secret Garden
- Green Eggs and Ham*
- Little Women*
- Of Mice and Men
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Lord of the Flies
- The DaVinci Code
- Frankenstein
- Dune
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Gone With The Wind*
- Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory
- A Wrinkle in Time*
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Slaughterhouse Five
- Anne of Green
Gables*
- Twilight
- Where the Sidewalk Ends*
- Le Petit Prince *
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- The Princess Bride
- The Picture of Dorian Grey
- The Hunger Games
- Sense and Sensibility*
- The Golden Compass
- Dracula
- The Color Purple
- The Kite Runner
- The Odyssey*
- Anna Karenina* (Currently rereading)
- And Then There Were None
- Interview with the Vampire
- The Book Thief
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- The Joy Luck Club
- Little House on
the Prairie*
- The Giver
- Life of Pi
- Rebecca
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Ender's Game
- A Tale of Two Cities
- L'Étranger
- East of Eden
- Les Miserables
- The Bell Jar
- Lolita*
- The Road
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- The Stand
- Catch-22
- The Sun Also Rises
73. The Pillars of the Earth
74. Crime and Punishment
75. The Good Earth
76. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
77. The Help
78. Watchmen
79. Lonesome Dove
80. Water for Elephants
81. Outlander
82. American Gods
83. The Poisonwood Bible
84. My Sister's Keeper
85. The Master and Margarita
86. The Notebook
87. Like Water for
Chocolate
88. Beloved*
89. Their Eyes Were Watching God
90. Invisible Man
91. A Game of Thrones
92. The Fountainhead*
93. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar
Wao
94. Ulysses
95. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
96. The Brothers Karamazov*
97. The House of the Spirits
98. Fight Club
99. Middlesex
100.
Interpreter of Maladies (read some short stories by Lahiri)
I should have coded the ones I want to reread - Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Secret Garden, maybe East of Eden, maybe the Vonnegut just to remember why I liked him ...but I think as an adult I wouldn't like Vonnegut anymore, even if he was a Hoosier.

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