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