"1001 Books to Read Before you Die": Titles I Can Cross Off the List
Submitted by subzero on Sun, 12/19/2010 - 23:01
- 2000s (6)
- 19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
- 26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
- 43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
- 49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
- 52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
- 67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
- 1900s (43)
- 86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
- 93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
- 196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
- 218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
- 236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
- 241. Contact – Carl Sagan
- 256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
- 276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
- 320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
- 358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
- 375. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- 399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
- 417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
- 427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
- 433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- 436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
- 445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
- 456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- 472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- 484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
- 486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
- 494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
- 496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- 508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- 529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- 564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
- 570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
- 587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
- 588. Native Son – Richard Wright
- 592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- 603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
- 608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- 610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
- 619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- 622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
- 649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- 663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
- 667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
- 689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- 708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
- 717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
- 736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
- 781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1800s (14)
- 788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
- 790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
- 791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
- 797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
- 804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- 809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- 866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
- 867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- 897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
- 906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- 913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- 1700s (1)
- Candide – Voltaire
- Pre-1700 (1)
- 996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
65 so far, I feel like that's a decent track record for 19 years. I only have the rest of my life to hit the rest of the list.