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Here are 100 top movies as selected in 1998. Bold ones you've seen, and italicize ones you plan to see.

1. Citizen Kane (ROSEBUUUUUUUUD)
2. Casablanca
3. The Godfather
4. Gone with the Wind (I guess I might see it, if for the sake of "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. XD")
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. The Graduate
8. On the Waterfront
9. Schindler's List
10. Singin' in the Rain ("NO! NO! NO!" "YES!" "NO! NO! NO!" "YES!")
11. It's a Wonderful Life (Best feel-good holiday movie ever. T____T)
12. Sunset Boulevard
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Some Like It Hot
15. Star Wars (All of 'em. I LOVE THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY LIKE IM BLIIIIIND)
16. All About Eve
17. The African Queen
18. Psycho
19. Chinatown
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21. The Grapes of Wrath (I aught to read the book sometime. :o)
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (w00t! DAISIIIIIIIIIE)
23. The Maltese Falcon
24. Raging Bull
25. E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Didn't really like it much, though.) <--- (Haha, same here. XDDD!)
26. Dr. Strangelove
27. Bonnie and Clyde ("Hi guys! We rob banks! :D")
28. Apocalypse Now
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
31. Annie Hall
32. The Godfather Part 2
33. High Noon
34. To Kill a Mockingbird (Gods, I want to see this. And read the book. T____T)
35. It Happened One Night
36. Midnight Cowboy
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. Double Indemnity
39. Doctor Zhivago
40. North by Northwest
41. West Side Story (Most people I know didn't like it or find it too cheesy. I LOVED IT)
42. Rear Window
43. King Kong (As in the original. I only saw Peter Jackson's version)
44. The Birth of a Nation
45. A Streetcar Named Desire
46. A Clockwork Orange
47. Taxi Driver
48. Jaws
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (Ah, one of my least favourite Disney films. I find it too boring, hehe... BLASPHEMY!) <----- (I blame Snow White's voice sounding too screechy. XDDDD!)
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ("Badges? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' BADGES")
51. The Philadelphia Story
52. From Here to Eternity
53. Amadeus (Saw clips. :o Didn't really like it though)
54. All Quiet on the Western Front
55. The Sound of Music (I saw it a lot, but it only took until last year I got to the part where the von Trapps escape the Nazis. XDD;;; Tire-stomping nuns FTW)
56. M*A*S*H (What the hell, I've heard so much about it in fandom. XD)
57. The Third Man
58. Fantasia (HELL YES) <---- (FUCK YEAH. The Alligator/Hippo ballet dance, and gosh so many gorgeous things. Fantasia 2000 kicks ass too. :o)
59. Rebel Without a Cause
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (GOD I NEED TO HANG MYSELF. I NEVER SAW A SINGLE INDIANA JONES FILM SOMEONE SHOOT ME OUT OF MY MISERY)
61. Vertigo
62. Tootsie
63. Stagecoach
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Huh, what's that? Sounds familiar...)
65. The Silence of the Lambs
66. Network
67. The Manchurian Candidate
68. An American in Paris
69. Shane
70. The French Connection
71. Forrest Gump (Run Forrest! Run! :o)
72. Ben-Hur
73. Wuthering Heights (Eww...)
74. The Gold Rush
75. Dances With Wolves
76. City Lights
77. American Graffiti
78. Rocky
79. The Deer Hunter
80. The Wild Bunch
81. Modern Times
82. Giant
83. Platoon
84. Fargo (I saw clips. :o)
85. Duck Soup
86. Mutiny on the Bounty
87. Frankenstein
88. Easy Rider
89. Patton
90. The Jazz Singer
91. My Fair Lady (Sounds funny from what I've read about it. XD! Same with Pygmolion.)
92. A Place in the Sun
93. The Apartment
94. Goodfellas
95. Pulp Fiction
96. The Searchers
97. Bringing up Baby
98. Unforgiven
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy

The 100 books the BBC says we should all read
(bold what you've read, italics what you've started, * underline for going to read)

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (I got lost around The Two Towers. XDDD I'll have to try again later)
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (Tried starting Golden Compass... it isn't really grabbing me though. D: Heard Subtle Knife was better though. :o)
- The Golden Compass
- The Subtle Knife
- The Amber Spyglass
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter, JK Rowling (They're not all listed here. Hm.) <---- (I'll fix that. XDDDD!)
- Philosopher's Stone
- Chamber of Secrets
- Prisoner of Azkaban
- Goblet of Fire
- Order of the Phoenix
- Half-Blood Prince
- Deathly Hallows
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (See earlier comments in the movie meme)
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne (Dad's constantly bitching about Disney because of this book. XD)
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (Big Brother is Watching j00. :o)
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis (And the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia too! :D I think I liked Voyage of the Dawn Treader best)
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (Read the first couple chapters and gave up. Eww)
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller (I never heard of it, but I got that as a result on a book meme. :o Huh. Wonder if it's telling me something)
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (Not touching that one with a 9-foot-pole. Yuck!)
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger (Dad HATED this book. XDDDD! I never read it though)
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (Too slow-paced for me. DDD: NOTHING HAPPENED EXCEPT MOLE GETTING LOST IN THE WOODS IN WINTER AND THE ODYSSEY ALLEGORIES AT THE END)
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (only an abridged version so it doesn't count. Hated the story though. And I wanted to punch Ms. Havisham in her wrinkled face. ~~At least she burned in a fire. :D~~)
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (Saw the movie. Hated it. XD)
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (My Professor Frankly desktop wallpaper quotes excerpts from this book! XDDD)
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling (What? You went through these already!)
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien (That, I read in 7th grade. <3333)
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck (I hear that's a good book. :o And I loved Of Mice and Men, sad as it was)
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (Like Indiana Jones: WHY HAVE I NOT READ THIS YET!? Same with Through the Looking Glass. God! T______T)
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez ("Sounds like an awful lot of solitude...") <----- (That guy's a professional hermit! :D)
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl (THE AMAZING CHOCOLATIER)
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (I have the book. :o I NEED TO READ IT)
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen\
39. Dune, Frank Herbert (I started it and forgot about it. Should try again later)
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams (LOVE THIS BOOK TOO!) <------- (Again with Alice and Indiana Jones: GOD I NEED TO READ THIS IF MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT. WHY DO I KEEP MISSING OUT ON THE COOL STUFF!?)
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald (Another question. Why do I keep missing out on awesome books like Watership Down and Alice and read FUCKING CRAP LIKE THE GREAT GATSBY!? No, seriously. I hated that book. Not as much as The Scarlet Letter, but still. Disgusting book. About pompous rich people. XD)
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (Started it, but it was a HUUUUUUUUUGE book. XDDD;;; Again, should try again later)
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell (LOVED THIS BOOK. FUCKING LOVED IT)
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (I was reading an edition with illustrations by Quentin Blake, the guy that does the drawings for Roald Dahl's books. :o Lost it though. Fuck, because this is probably the only Dickens story I like! XDDD)
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (Due to me not understanding the movie as a kid, I was worried this book was gonna be nothing but misery instead of the healing it "promised" to be. Thankfully, it was a great book. It's like a little bit of sunshine comes with each chapter. :o)
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck (As I said earlier, I read it. :o The ending felt like a punch to the gut. T-T)
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (Kinda? Sorta?)
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (I NEED TO FINISH THIS)
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding (People are always telling me thay hated it. But I want to try) <----- (It's a good book. :o Just watch out--Golding describing in verbose detail the same places of the island over and over and over again gets tiring REALLY fast. @.@;;;)
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl (After seeing the film, I tried for weeks to move things with my mind. ~~I still do sometimes~~) <------ (Awww! And dude. MATILDA WAS MY FUCKING HERO. 'Prolly my favorite Dahl book. AND the movie was awesome and cute too. <333)
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar (Read twice, it's pretty kickass.) <----- (I aughta see the movie sometime. :o Gosh, I felt sorry for Zero in this book. He was my favorite. T____T)
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (I've heard about this book! :o I need to read it)
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel (Oh god. XDDD I'd scanned portions of later books and I was just ROFL)
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett (I own it! :o I just need to read it. *nod!*)
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot (EWW. What's that doing on there? DD:)
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

P.S. Pippi from Mother 1 is fucking awesome.