Books to read before you die
I was in Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago, and saw this awesome metal bookmark that has a list of 50 books to read before you die. I found the actual list of books on that bookmark, but I found a few other lists, and proceeded to make my own, so it’s going to be more than 50..
I’m also going to blog as I read the books. My challenge is to read all the books on the following list in 938 days. 134 weeks, a book per week. Thats over 2 ½ years! Sheesh..
I’m going to mark off as I read them on this list. I’ve read some of them already, but I’m gonna re-read any of the ones I read in high school, since I pretty much dont remember any of them.
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
7. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
8. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
9. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
10. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
11. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
12. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
13. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
15. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
18. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
20. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
21. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
22. Ulysses by James Joyce
23. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
24. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulk
26. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling [X]
27. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
28. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
29. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
30. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
31. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
33. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
34. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
35. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
36. The Color Purple by Alice Walker [X]
37. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
38. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
39. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
40. Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
41. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
42. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
43. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
44. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
45. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
46. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
47. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
48. The Divine Comedy by Dante
50. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
51. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
52. World War Z by Max Brooks
53. Dracula by Bram Stoker
54. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger [X]
55. The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
56. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
57. The Stand by Stephen King
58. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
59. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
60. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
61. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
62. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
63. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
64. Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
65. Middlemarch by George Eliot
66. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
67. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
68. The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
69. Persuasion by Jane Austen
70. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
71. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
72. Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
73. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
74. Sybil by Flora Rhetha Schreiber
75. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
76. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
77. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray
78. Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding
79. Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
80. Identical by Ellen Hopkins
81. Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
82. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
83. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
84. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
85. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
86. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
87. Matilda by Roald Dahl
88. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
89. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
90. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
91. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
92. House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
93. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
94. Twenty-thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
95. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
96. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
97. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
98. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
99. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
100.Mennonite in a little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
101.Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
102.Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
103.Call of the Wild by Jack London
104.Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
105.Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
106.Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
107.James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
108.Holes by Louis Sachar
109.Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
110.Little Bee by Chris Cleave
111.Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
112.Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
113.Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
114.The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
115.A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
116.The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
117.The Stranger by Albert Camus
118.A Separate Peace by John Knowles
119.A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
120.The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
121.Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
122.The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
123.Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
124.Island of Blue Dolpins by Scott O’Dell
125.Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
126.Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
127.Messenger by Lois Lowry
128.The Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
129.The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkein
130.His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
131.The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
132.Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
133.Crank, Glass, Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
134.A Wrinkle in Time Quartet by Madeleine L’Engle
I’ll probably end up adding books to the list, so if anyone has any recommendations, I’m clearly willing to read almost anything.
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