The 100 Book Challenge

I will be attempting the 100 book challenge for 2015. This might be a bit ambitious knowing that I will be starting the year off with writing my Masters’ thesis. But I will attempt to read as many books as I can.

I am compiling a list below of 100 books, in no particular order. Some if these books are books that I previously started but never got around to finishing, or that I have read in Arabic, or of which I have read an abridged version. But this means that I will have to read the complete book, I don’t consider that cheating.

You can probably tell that I enjoy fiction, fantasy, and science fiction the most, but I also enjoy classics and other genres. I also enjoy series, and nothing makes me sadder than finishing a good series.

If you have any recommendations for me, please leave me a comment 🙂

Edit: I started out this list with thought of listing 100 individual books. But since, as I mentioned before, I am a fan of series, I found that most of the items on the list were part of a series. Not that this is a bad thing. What worried me were two things; first, what if I start a series that I hate, then I will have to finish it to commit to the 100-book challenge. Second, what about all the other fantastic books out there that I want to read? Granted, I won’t be able to finish them all in one year – not unless I become unemployed and thesis-free – but I still want them on this list, and 100 is such a pretty number that I don’t want to change.

Therefore, any series in the list is considered as one book, with all the books in that series listed below. This way I can add all the books that I come across during what remains of 2014, and still maintain a 100-book list, that I most likely won’t get through for another decade!

1. A Song of Ice and Fire – George R. R. Martin
   1. A Game of Thrones
   2. A Clash of Kings
   3. A Storm of Swords
   4. A Feast for Crows
   5. A Dance with Dragons
2. Inferno – Dan Brown
3. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
   1. The Hunger Games
   2. Catching Fire
   3. Mockingjay
4. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
6. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
   1. The Golden Compass
   2. The Subtle Knife
   3. The Amber Spyglass
7. The Prophet – Khalil Gibran
8. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire
9. Mirror, Mirror – Gregory Maguire
10. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
11. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
12. Colomba – Prosper Mérimée
13. Fahrenheit – Ray Bradbury
14. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
    1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    3. Life, the Universe and Everything
    4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
    5. Mostly Harmless
15. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
17. Cairo Trilogy – Naguib Mahfouz
    1. Palace Walk
    2. Palace of Desire
    3. Sugar Street
18. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
19. The Vampire Diaries – L. J. Smith
    1. The Awakening
    2. The Struggle
    3. The Fury
    4. Dark Reunion
20. Shifters – Rachel Vincent
    1. Stray
    2. Rogue
    3. Pride
    4. Prey
    5. Shift
    6. Alpha
21. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
22. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
23. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
24. Emma – Jane Austen
25. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
26. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
27. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
28. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
29. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
30. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo
31. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
32. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
33. Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzakis
34. The Forty Rules of Love – Elif Shafak
35. How to Be Good – Nick Hornby
36. Camille: The Lady of the Camellias – Alexandre Dumas fils
37. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
38. Rhinoceros – Eugene Ionescu
39. The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
40. The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
41. Foreign Affairs – Alison Lurie
42. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
43. The Razor’s Edge – Somerset Maugham
44. A Room with a View – E.M.Forster
45. The Longest Journey – E.M.Forster
46. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M.Forster
47. The Sound and the Fury –  William Faulkner
48. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
49. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
50. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
51. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
52. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
53. Persuasion – Jane Austen
54. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
55. The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel – Michael Scott
    1. The Alchemyst
    2. The Magician
    3. The Sorceress
    4. The Necromancer
    5. The Warlock
    6. The Enchantress
56. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
57. House of Night – P. C. Cast + Kristin Cast
    1. Marked
    2. Betrayed
    3. Chosen
    4. Untamed
    5. Hunted
    6. Tempted
    7. Burned
    8. Awakened
    9. Destined
    10. Hidden
    11. Revealed
    12. Redeemed
58. Dune – Frank Herbert
    1. Dune
    2. Dune Messiah
    3. Children of Dune
    4. God Emperor of Dune
    5. Heretics of Dune
    6. Chapterhouse: Dune
59. Girl Online – Zoe Sugg
60. Graceling – Kristin Cashore
    1. Graceling
    2. Fire
    3. Bitterblue
61. Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
    1. Inkheart
    2. Inkspell
    3. Inkdeath
62. Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
63. The Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker
64. Post-Human – David Simpson
    1. Sub-Human
    2. Post-Human
    3. Trans-Human
    4. Human Plus
    5. Inhuman
65. The Enchantress of Florence – Salman Rushdie
66. A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
67. The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
68. The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. – Adelle Waldman
69. The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
70. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
71. Kissing the Witch – Emma Donoghue
72. The Lunar Chronicles – Marissa Meyer
    1. Cinder
    2. Scarlet
    3. Cress
    4. Winter (release on November 10, 2015)
73. Cruel Beauty – Rosamund Hodge
74. Scarlet – A.C. Gaughen
75. Winterspell – Claire Legrand
76. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
77. The Maze Runner – James Dashner
    1. The Maze Runner
    2. Scorch Trials
    3. The Death Cure
    4. The Kill Order
78. Hyperion – Dan Simmons
79. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
80. Apprentice Adept – Piers Anthony
    1. Split Infinity
    2. Blue Adept
    3. Juxtaposition
    4. Out of Phaze
    5. Robot Adept
    6. Unicorn Point
    7. Phaze Doubt
81. The Dark Tower – Stephen King
    1. The Gunslinger
    2. The Drawing of the Three
    3. The Waste Lands
    4. Wizard and Glass
    5. Wolves of the Calla
    6. Song of Susannah
    7. The Dark Tower
    8. The Wind Through the Keyhole
82. The Wheel of Time – Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
    1. New Spring
    2. The Eye of the World
    3. The Great Hunt
    4. The Dragon Reborn
    5. The Shadow Rising
    6. The Fires of Heaven
    7. Lord of Chaos
    8. A Crown of Swords
    9. The Path of Daggers
    10. Winter’s Heart
    11. Crossroads of Twilight
    12. Knife of Dreams
    13. The Gathering Storm
    14. Towers of Midnight
    15. A Memory of Light
83. The Iron Druid Chronicles – Kevin Hearne 
    1. Hounded
    2. Hexed
    3. Hammered
    4. Tricked
    5. Trapped
    6. Hunted
    7. Shattered
    8. Staked
84. The Sword of Truth – Terry Goodkind
    1. The First Confessor: The Legend of Magda Searus
    2. Debt of Bones
    3. Wizard’s First Rule
    4. Stone of Tears
    5. Blood of the Fold
    6. Temple of the Winds
    7. Soul of the Fire
    8. Faith of the Fallen
    9. The Pillars of Creation
    10. Naked Empire
    11. Chainfire
    12. Phantom
    13. Confessor
    14. The Omen Machine
    15. The Third Kingdom
    16. Severed Souls
    17. The Law of Nines
85. Jack West Jr. Series – Matthew Reilly
    1. Seven Ancient Wonders
    2. The Six Sacred Stones
    3. The Five Greatest Warriors
86. Red Rising – Pierce Brown
87. The Riftwar Saga – Raymond E. Feist
    1. Magician
    2. Silverthorn
    3. A Darkness at Sethanon
88. The Deed of Paksenarrion – Elizabeth Moon
    1. The Deed of Paksenarrion
    2. The Legacy of Gird
    3. Paladin’s Legacy
89. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier