100 Books Scratch Off Bucket List #2

Hello!

I thought it was high time I tried to make some progress on my 100 Books Bucket List. My original post was back in 2019. If you wish to check out the post it is here. I will be honest I haven’t made as much progress as I would like so I think I need to make an effort and try and get some ticked off. Some of the classics that are on the list are also on my Classics Club list so there is a stronger chance I will get those read sooner rather than later.

So here are the books I have read:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Complete Art of War by Sun Tzu
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Harry Potter (Series) by J. K. Rowling
The Picture of Dorain Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
A Game of Thrones (Series) by George R. R. Martin
MacBeth by William Shakespeare
The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Winnie the Pooh (Complete Collection) By A. A. Milne
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Watership Down by Richard Adam
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Bird Song by Sebastian Faulks
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Dissolution by C. J. Sansom
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Odyssey by Homer

I have sadly only added 4 books to the read list since 2019.

The books I have left to read are:

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
Naughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Stieg Larsson
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
His Dark Materials (Trilogy) By Philip Pullman
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Ulysees by James Joyce
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
London Fields by Martin Amis
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
Gladys Aylward the Little Woman by Gladys Aylward
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Misery by Stephen King
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Moby – Dick by Herman Melville
Middlemarch by George Eliot

I am not sure if I will be able to read anymore off this list before the end of this year but I am definitely planning some kind of challenge for next year which will get more of these books ticked off. Perhaps I will try and read one book a month from the list. I will get thinking and see what I come up with but I really would like to get moving with this challenge.

Do you have any long term book challenges that you have perhaps forgotten about like I have?

Happy Reading