43-- mildly well-read

Here is a list of top 101 books voted on by customers in an Australian bookstore. Bold the ones you've read:

1. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
2. Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
5. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
6. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
7. Harry Potter 1-7 (J.K. Rowling)
8. The Power Of One (Bryce Courtenay)
9. Magician (Raymond E. Feist)
10. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

11. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
12. Cloudstreet (Tim Winton)
13. Cross Stitch (Diana Gabaldon)
14. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
15. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
16. Tuesdays With Morrie (Mitch Albom)
17. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
18. The Alchemist (Paulo Coehlo)
19. Mao's Last Dancer (Li Cunxin)
20. Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)

21. Little Women (Louise May Alcott)
22. The Bronze Horseman (Paulina Simmons)
23. The Bible (God and assorted others)
24. Eragon (Christopher Paolini)
25. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
26. The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
28. Tomorrow, When the War Began (John Marsden)
29. Ice Station (Matthew Reilly)
30. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)

31. The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
32. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
33. Perfume (Patrick Suskind)
34. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
35. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
36. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
37. Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
38. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
39. The Pact (Jodi Picoult)
40. A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)

41. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
42. April Fool's Day (Bryce Courtenay)
43. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres)
44. Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
45. Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts)
46. The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
47. Tully (Paulina Simmons)
48. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
49. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
50. A Fortunate Life (A.B. Facey)

51. Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)
52. River God (Wilbur Smith)
53. Wild Swans (Jung Chang)
54. Nineteen Eighty Four (George Orwell)
55. Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
56. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
57. Persuasion (Jane Austen)
58. The Shipping News (Annie Proulx)
59. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
60. The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)

61. Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
62. Possession (A.S. Byatt)
63. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver)
64. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
65. My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell)
66. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
67. Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
68. Dune (Frank Herbert)
69. Emma (Jane Austen)
70. Marley and Me (John Grogan)

71. Middlemarch (George Eliot)
72. Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
73. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
74. The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
75. Chocolat (Joanne Harris)
76. Dirt Music (Tim Winton)
77. Looking for Alibrandi (Melina Marchetta)
78. My Brilliant Career (Miles Franklin)
79. The Ancient Future (Traci Harding)
80. The Belgariad (David Eddings)

81. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
82. The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde)
83. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
84. The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
85. The Stand (Stephen King)
86. It (Stephen King)
87. Northern Lights (Nora Roberts)
88. Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
89. The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Kim Edwards)
90. The Outsider (Albert Camus)

91. The Riders (Tim Winton)
92. Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
93. Across the Nightingale Floor (Lian Hearn)
94. Atonement (Ian McEwan)
95. Circle of Friends (Maeve Binchy)
96. Seven Ancient Wonders (Matthew Reilly)
97. Tess of the D'Ubervilles (Thomas Hardy)
98. The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
99. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
100. The Other Boleyn Girl (Phillippa Gregory)
101. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)