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Thursday, January 5, 2017

2017 Reading Challenge!

It just happened one day that I thought I wanted to challenge my self to read the best books of all time without considering their genre or anything. So my husband-who-loves-making-a-list-of-anything made a list of books I should read from these 6 sites:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books
2. http://www.alistofbooks.com/
3. http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-books-of-all-time-_fiction_
4. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/100-novels-everyone-should-read/
5. http://thegreatestbooks.org/
6. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1.Best_Books_Ever

The only requirement for my list is the book should be at least on the 4 out of those 6 lists. Here is the result in the chronological order:

NoTitleAuthorYearCountryGenreFormat







1OdysseyHomer-800Greeceepicpoem
2Don QuixoteCervantes1615Spain
novel
3Robinson CrusoeDefoe1719United Kingdomhistoricalnovel
4Pride and PrejudiceAusten1813United Kingdom
novel
5FrankensteinShelley1818United Kingdomgothic novel, horror, soft science fictionnovel
6Wuthering HeightsBronte1847United Kingdom
novel
7Jane EyreBronte1847United Kingdom
novel
8David CopperfieldDickens1850United Kingdombildungsroman*novel
9Moby-DickMelville1851United Statesadventure, epic, sea, encyclopedicnovel
10Great ExpectationsDickens1861United Kingdom
novel
11Les MiserablesHugo1862Franceepic, historicalnovel
12Alice's Adventures in WonderlandCarroll1865United Kingdomchildren's fictionnovel
13Crime and PunishmentDostoyevsky1866Russiapsychological, philosophicalnovel
14War and PeaceTolstoy1867Russiahistoricalnovel
15Anna KareninaTolstoy1877Russiarealistnovel
16Adventures of Huckleberry FinnTwain1884United Kingdomsatiricalnovel
17Heart of DarknessConrad1899United Kingdom
novella
18UlyssesJoyce1920Irelandmodernistnovel
19The Great GatsbyFitzgerald1925United States
novel
20Brave New WorldHuxley1932United Kingdomscience fiction, dystopian**novel
21Gone with the WindMitchell1936United Stateshistoricalnovel
22The HobbitTolkien1937United Kingdomhigh fantasy, juvenile fantasynovel
23The Grapes of WrathSteinbeck1939United Statesrealistnovel
24Nineteen Eighty-FourOrwell1949United Kingdomdystopian, political fiction, social science fictionnovel
25The Chronicles of NarniaLewis1950United Kingdomchildren's fantasy, Christian literaturenovel
26The Catcher in the RyeSalinger1951United Statesrealistic fiction, coming-of-age fictionnovel
27Charlotte's WebWhite1952United Stateschildren's fictionnovel
28The Old Man and the SeaHemingway1952United States
short novel
29The Lord of the RingsTolkien1954United Kingdomfantasynovel
30LolitaNabokov1955France
novel
31To Kill a MockingbirdLee1960United Statessouthern Gothic novel
32Catch-22Heller1961United Statesblack humor, absurdist, satire, war, historicalnovel
33DuneHerbert1965United Statessoft science-fictionnovel
34One Hundred Years of SolitudeMarquez1967Columbiamagic realismnovel
35Watership DownAdams1972United Kingdomfantasynovel
36The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams1979United Kingdomcomedy, science fictionnovel
37The Handmaid's TaleAtwood1985Canadadystopian novel, science fiction, speculativenovel
38Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneRowling1998United Kingdomfantasynovel
 *bildungsroman: A literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age),[3] in which character change is extremely important. (Wikipedia)
**dystopian: A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian (Wikipedia)