Clone of Books you should read if you want to consider yourself well-read

Submitted by ncaylin1 on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 18:39
Tags: 
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Technorati
  1. Kit Carson - John Abbott
  2. The King of the Mountains - Edmond About
  3. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  5. Watership Down - Richard Adams
  6. Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus
  7. A Death in the Family - James Agee
  8. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  9. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
  10. Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Anderson
  11. Beowulf - Anonymous
  12. Bible - Anonymous
  13. Davy Crockett - Anonymous
  14. The Epic of Gilgamesh - Anonymous
  15. Koran - Anonymous
  16. Mahabharata - Anonymous
  17. Njal's Saga - Anonymous
  18. Torah - Anonymous
  19. Kane and Abel - Jeffery Archer
  20. Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
  21. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel
  22. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
  23. Emma - Jane Austen*
  24. Persuasion - Jane Austen
  25. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen*
  26. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  27. Daniel Boone - John Bakeless
  28. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
  29. Balzac, Honore de – Old Goriot
  30. Molly, Malone Dies, The Unamable - Samuel Beckett
  31. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
  32. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
  33. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Berniers
  34. The Last Spike - Pierre Berton
  35. Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
  36. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
  37. Decameron - Giovanni Boccacio
  38. Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
  39. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  40. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte*
  41. Fang and Claw - Frank Buck
  42. On Jungle Trails - Frank Buck
  43. Bring 'em Back Alive - Frank Buck and Edward Anthony
  44. Last Days of Pompeii - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  45. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan*
  46. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
  47. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
  48. Marco Polo - Donn Byrne
  49. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
  50. Caesar's Conquests - Julius Caesar
  51. The Stranger - Albert Camus
  52. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll*
  53. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
  54. Poems of Paul Celan - Paul Celan
  55. Journey to the End of Night - Louis-Ferdinana D. Celine
  56. The Adventures of Cellini - Benvenuto Cellini
  57. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes*
  58. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer*
  59. Selected Stories of Anton Chekov - Anton Pavlovich Chekov
  60. The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekov
  61. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
  62. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
  63. The Crises - Winston Churchill
  64. The Oxbow Incident - Walter Van Tillburn Clark
  65. The Life and Adventures of "Buffalo" Bill Cody - William F Cody
  66. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  67. Collected Works - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  68. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
  69. The Moonstone - William Wilkie Collins
  70. The Woman in White - William Wilkie Collins
  71. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad*
  72. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
  73. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
  74. Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimoore Cooper*
  75. The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane*
  76. Charlie and the Chocolate Facotory - Roald Dahl*
  77. Matilda - Roald Dahl*
  78. The BFG - Roald Dahl
  79. The Twits - Roald Dahl
  80. Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana Jr.
  81. The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
  82. Soldiers of Fortune - Richard Harding David
  83. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe*
  84. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (1719)*
  85. Conquest of Mexico - Bernal Diez Del Castillo (1632)
  86. How We Think - Dewey, John
  87. Bleak House - Charles Dickens*
  88. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  89. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1850)*
  90. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861)*
  91. A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens, Charles (1859)*
  92. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  93. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master - Denis Diderot
  94. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
  95. Crime and Punishment - Feodor Dostoyevsky(1866)*
  96. The Brothers Karamazov - Feodor Dostoyevsky
  97. The Idiot - Feodor Dostoyevsky
  98. The Possessed - Feodor Dostoyevsky
  99. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
  100. The Complete Works - Arthur Conan Doyle (1891)
  101. Camille - Alexandre Dumas (1852)
  102. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1844)*
  103. The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas (1850)
  104. The Queen’s Necklace - (Alexandre Dumas (1849)
  105. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (1844)*
  106. Middlemarch - George Eliot*
  107. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot*
  108. Silas Marner - George Eliot (1861)*
  109. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  110. Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson*
  111. Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson*
  112. Waterloo - Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian
  113. Medea - Euripides*
  114. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
  115. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
  116. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
  117. Birdsong - Sebastien Faulks
  118. Magician - Raymond E. Feist
  119. Bridget Jone’s Diary - Helen Fielding*
  120. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding*
  121. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald*
  122. A Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
  123. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert*
  124. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
  125. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
  126. The Magus - John Fowles
  127. Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin(1817)
  128. Arabian Nights - Anthony Galland(1704)
  129. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
  130. Dead Souls - Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
  131. The Cossack Chief - Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (1839)
  132. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  133. The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  134. Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  135. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
  136. Cleopatra - H Rider Haggard (1889)
  137. King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard (1885)
  138. Man Without a Country - Edward Everett Hale (1863)
  139. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
  140. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  141. Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
  142. Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy*
  143. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Bret Harte (1870)
  144. The Outcasts of Poker Flats - Bret Harte (1870)
  145. The Dark Frigate - Charles Boardman Hawes (1923)
  146. The Mutineers - Charles Boardman Hawes (1920)
  147. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
  148. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne*
  149. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
  150. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
  151. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  152. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  153. The Lion of the North - G A Henty (1890)
  154. In the Reign of Terror - G A Henty (1890)
  155. Won by the Sword - G A Henty (1899)
  156. Dune - Frank Herbert*
  157. The Iliad - Homer (962 BCE)*
  158. The Odyssey - Homer (927 BCE)*
  159. The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope (1894)
  160. The Covered Wagon - Emerson Hough (1922)
  161. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
  162. Ton Brown's School Days - Thomas Hughes (1856)*
  163. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  164. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (1831)*
  165. The Man Who Laughs - Victor Hugo (1869)
  166. Toilers of the Sea - Victor Hugo (1866)
  167. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
  168. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  169. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
  170. Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen*
  171. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
  172. Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving
  173. The Headless Horseman - Washington Irving
  174. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
  175. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
  176. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
  177. Ulysses - James Joyce
  178. The Castle - Franz Kafka
  179. The Trial - Franz Kafka
  180. The Recognition of Sakuntala - Kalidasa
  181. Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
  182. The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
  183. Zora the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
  184. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  185. The Stand - Stephen King
  186. Westward, Ho! - Charles Kingsley (1855)
  187. The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
  188. Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling (1897)
  189. Kim - Rudyard Kipling (1901)
  190. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling (1894)*
  191. Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence*
  192. Independent People - Halldor Kiljan Laxness
  193. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  194. Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi - Giacomo Leopardi
  195. The Golden Notebook - Doris M Lessing
  196. The Chronicles of Narnia - C S Lewis*
  197. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
  198. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
  199. The Call of the Wild - Jack London (1903)
  200. The Sea Wolf - Jack London (1904)
  201. White Fang - Jack London (1906)
  202. The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
  203. Courtship of Miles Standish - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1858)
  204. Evangeline - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
  205. The Prince - Machiavelli*
  206. Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
  207. Children of Gebelawi - Naguib Mahfous
  208. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
  209. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
  210. Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  211. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
  212. Mr Midshipman Easy - Captain Frederick Marryat (1836)
  213. The Little Savage - Captain Frederick Marryat (1848)
  214. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  215. Das Kapital - Karl Marx
  216. The Flayed Hand - Guy de Maupassant
  217. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  218. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough
  219. Barteby the Scrivener - Herman Melville
  220. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851)*
  221. Typee - Herman Melville (1846)
  222. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
  223. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
  224. Winnie the Pooh - A A Milne
  225. Paradise Lost - John Milton
  226. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  227. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  228. Tartuffe - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
  229. Essays - Michel De Montaigne
  230. Anne of Green Gables - L M Montgomery
  231. History - Elsa Morante
  232. Beloved - Toni Morrison
  233. King of the Khyber Rifles - Talbot Mundy (1916)
  234. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
  235. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  236. Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1932)
  237. Pitcairn's Island - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1939)
  238. The Octopus - Frank Norris
  239. A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
  240. Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill
  241. 1984 - George Orwell
  242. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  243. Under Two Flags - Ouida (1868)
  244. Metamorphoses - Ovid
  245. The Conspiracy of the Pontiac - Francis Parkman (1851)
  246. The Oregon Trail - Franic Parkman (1849)
  247. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak*
  248. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
  249. The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
  250. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
  251. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath*
  252. The Republic - Plato
  253. The Complete Tales - Edgar Allen Poe*
  254. Travels of Marco Polo - Marco Polo
  255. The Scottish Chiefs - Jane Porter (1809)
  256. Mort - Terry Pratchett
  257. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
  258. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  259. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
  260. Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
  261. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman*
  262. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
  263. Knights of the Round Table - Howard Pyle (1903)
  264. Men of Iron - Howard Pyle (1891)
  265. Robin Hood - Howard Pyle (1883)
  266. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
  267. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
  268. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
  269. The Cloister and the Hearth - Charles Reade (1861)
  270. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (1928)
  271. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
  272. Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand (1897)
  273. Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
  274. The Social Contract - Jean Jacques Rousseau
  275. Harry Potter - J K Rowling
  276. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  277. Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
  278. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
  279. Holes - Louis Sachar
  280. A Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
  281. The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
  282. Blindness - Jose Saramago
  283. Lafitte the Pirate - Lyle Saxon (1930)
  284. Joan of Arc - Frederick Schiller (1801)
  285. William Tell - Frederick Schiller (1804)
  286. The World as Will and Idea - Arthur Schopenhauer
  287. Ivanhoe - Walter Scott (1820)*
  288. Rob Roy - Walter Scott (1818)
  289. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
  290. Katherine - Anya Seton
  291. Lives of the Hunted - Ernest Thompson Seton (1902)
  292. Wild Animals I have known - Ernest Thompson Seton (1898)
  293. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (1860)
  294. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (1603)
  295. King Lear - William Shakespeare*
  296. Macbeth - William Shakespeare (1606)
  297. Othello - William Shakespeare
  298. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (1597)
  299. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
  300. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
  301. The Bostan of Saadi - Sheikh Musliju-d-Din Sa'adi of Shiraz
  302. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818)
  303. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
  304. A Town like Alice - Nevil Shute
  305. With Fire and Sword - Henry Sienkiewicz (1890)
  306. Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko
  307. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
  308. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
  309. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitseyn
  310. Antigone - Sophocles
  311. Oedipus the King - Sophocles
  312. The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler
  313. How I Found Livingstone - Henry M Stanley (1872)
  314. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  315. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck*
  316. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
  317. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
  318. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
  319. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)*
  320. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
  321. The Bottle Imp - Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)
  322. Dracula - Bram Stoker*
  323. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
  324. Mysteries of Pari - Eugene Sue (1842)
  325. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
  326. Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo
  327. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  328. Idyls of the King - Alfred Tennyson
  329. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray*
  330. Abramham Lincoln - Benjamin Thomas (1952)
  331. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
  332. The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
  333. The Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien*
  334. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy*
  335. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  336. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
  337. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
  338. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain (1889)
  339. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (1884)*
  340. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (1876)*
  341. The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain (1882)
  342. Ramayana - Davi Vanamali
  343. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (1870)*
  344. A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne (1864)
  345. Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne (1873)*
  346. From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne (1870)
  347. The Aeneid - Virgil*
  348. Candide - Voltaire
  349. Faust - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1808/1832)
  350. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  351. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
  352. Ben Hur - Lew Wallace (1880)
  353. The Invisible Man - H G Wells (1897)
  354. The Time Machine - H G Wells (1895)
  355. War of the Worlds - H G Wells (1898)
  356. Collected Stories - Eudora Welty
  357. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
  358. The Mathnawi - E H Whinfield
  359. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  360. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  361. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde*
  362. Our Town - Thorton Wilder
  363. The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
  364. Girls in Love - Jacqueline Wilson
  365. The Story of Tracy Baker - Jacqueline Wilson
  366. Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
  367. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  368. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf*
  369. Native Son - Richard Wright
  370. Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss (1813)
  371. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Xun Lu
  372. The Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
  373. The Downfall - Emile Zola (1892)
Author Comments: 

Books you should read if you want to consider yourself well-read: Have you ever felt out of place in a conversation where your friends are referencing books you've never heard of? This list can help end the awkwardness. It's been compiled from "Best Of" lists and recommendations by friends and family. Books will be added and removed as I read them.

I decided to follow misscurly's example and keep track of how many I've read.

* = the ones I own

Current total:

48/374 = 12.8%

Edit: August 25/09 - I've taken off "Brideshead Revisited". It was too boring to be on this list. Honestly, there's no action and hardly anything happens. It was not my kind of book.

Cloned From: 
Original - Books you should read if you want to consider yourself well-read