From Harry Potter to The Catcher in The Rye - I will read absolutely anything. This blog will detail my impressions on new releases, old classics, and everything in between! As Dr. Seuss said in 'I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! 'The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.'


The Top 100 Novels - My Unachievable Goal?

I am obsessed with books. I love the look of them, I love the feel of them, I love reading more than one book at the same time, I love everything about BOOKS! Some might say I have a problem, and they might be right. But the fact is, I just don't care.


I wasn't always like this. I used to loath reading - I was allergic to books. I'm not sure what happened and how it all changed, but here I sit, in all my book-obsessed glory.


A couple years ago I decided I needed to catch up on all the classic novels that I refused to read in my school days. So I searched the internet to come up with a list or guideline of books everyone should read. I came up with 100 modern classics and I've been slowly ticking off each book as I read them. I tend to mix my book genres up to avoid boredom and repetition - so I'll read a classic, followed by a YA book, a fantasy, a mystery, etc, so it's been taking longer than expected...but someday it will happen.


The list (in no particular order):


- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- 1984, George Orwell
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinback
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Trustee from the Toolroom, Nevil Shute
- Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Dune, Frank Herbert
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie 
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
- The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
- At
onement, Ian McEwan
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- A Passage to India, E.M. Forster