My Ultimate Reading List

Submitted by Veritas on Tue, 05/09/2006 - 04:22
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  1. My Ultimate Reading List: 84, Charing Cross Rd - Helene Hanff
  2. 1001 Arabian Nights - Anon
  3. A Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
  4. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
  5. All Quiet On the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
  6. American Gods - Neil Gaimon
  7. Analects - Confucious
  8. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
  9. Apocrypha, The - Various
  10. Art of War - Sun Tzu
  11. Artist's Way: Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity - Julia Cameron
  12. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
  13. Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
  14. Birth of Venus - Sandra Dunant
  15. Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass (or, Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office) Confessions of a - Jen Lancaster (6/7/06)
  16. Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller
  17. Bookseller of Kabal - Asne Seierstad
  18. Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
  19. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote (05/31/06)
  20. Briar Rose - Jane Yolen
  21. Call of the Wild - Jack London
  22. Carry on Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
  23. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennesee Williams
  24. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  25. Catcher In the Rye - J.D. Salinger
  26. Chosen, The - Chaim Potok
  27. Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  28. Cider House Rules - John Irving
  29. "Civil Disobedience" - Henry David Thoreau
  30. Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  31. Collected Poems - Robert Frost
  32. Collected Poems - T.S. Eliot
  33. Collected Poems - Emily Dickenson
  34. Collected Poems - William Wordsworth
  35. Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
  36. Count of Monte Christo - Alexander Dumas
  37. Courts of Love: Eleanor of Aquataine - Jean Plaidy
  38. Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevski
  39. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
  40. DaVinci Code - Dan Brown (7/15/06)
  41. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (9/25/06)
  42. Democracy in America - Alexis de Toqueville
  43. Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
  44. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  45. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
  46. Drowned & the Saved - Primo Levi
  47. Dune - Frank Herbert
  48. Eleanor of Aquatain - Alison Weir
  49. Emma - Jane Austen
  50. English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
  51. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
  52. Faerie Queen, The - Edmund Spenser
  53. Farewell to Arms - Earnest Hemmingway
  54. Faust - Johann von Goethe
  55. Federalist Papers - Various
  56. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
  57. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  58. Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt
  59. Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg
  60. Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
  61. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
  62. Glass Menagerie - Tenessee Williams
  63. Godfather, The - Mario Puzo
  64. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  65. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 9/25/06)
  66. Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
  67. Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift
  68. Gunpowder Plot: Terror & Faith in 1605 - Antonia Fraser
  69. Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (6/27/06)
  70. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  71. Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
  72. Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
  73. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
  74. Hiroshima - John Hersey
  75. History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
  76. Histories - Herodotus
  77. Howl - Alan Ginsburg
  78. Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
  79. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Mya Angelou
  80. Iliad - Homer
  81. Illuminator, The - Brenda Rickmand Vantrease
  82. Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  83. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  84. Inferno - Dante Alighieri
  85. Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice (5/23/06)
  86. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  87. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  88. Joan of Arc - George Bernard Shaw
  89. Josephine: Life of an Empress - Carolly Erickson
  90. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
  91. Jungle, The - Upton Sinclair
  92. Jungle Book - Ruyard Kipling
  93. King Lear - William Shakespeare
  94. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
  95. Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart
  96. Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
  97. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  99. Letters from the Earth - Mark Twain
  100. Life, the Universe & Everything (3) - Douglas Adams
  101. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
  102. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  103. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  104. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
  105. Lost - Gregory McGuire
  106. Lovely Bones, The - Alice Sebold (5/31/06)
  107. MacBeth - William Shakespeare
  108. Magus, The - John Fowles
  109. Maltese Falcon - Dashielle Hammett
  110. Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
  111. Mein Kamf - Adolph Hitler
  112. Mirror, Mirror - Gregory McGuire
  113. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  114. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
  115. Mostly Harmless (5) - Douglas Adams
  116. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
  117. My Bondage & My Freedom - Frederick Douglass
  118. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
  119. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
  120. Odyssey - Homer
  121. Oedipus the King - Sophocles
  122. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  123. On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
  124. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
  125. Once & Future King - T.H. White
  126. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
  127. Othello - William Shakespeare
  128. Other Boylen Girl - Phillipa Gregory
  129. Passage to India - E.M. Forrester
  130. Paradise Lost - John Milton
  131. Phantom of the Opera - Victor Hugo
  132. Phantom of Manhattan - Frederick Forsythe
  133. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
  134. Prince, The - Niccolo Machiavelli
  135. Princes In the Tower - Alison Weir
  136. Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
  137. Purpose-Drive Life - Rick Warren
  138. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
  139. Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning
  140. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
  141. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  142. Resteraunt at the End of the Universe (2) - Douglas Adams
  143. Romance of Tristan & Isuelt - Joseph Bedier
  144. Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
  145. Republic - Plato
  146. Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby
  147. Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robery Kiyosaki
  148. Rubaiyat of Omar - Khayyam
  149. Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  150. Scarlet Pimpernell - Baroness Orczy Emmuska
  151. Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
  152. Schindlar's List - Thomas Keneally
  153. Second Treatise on Government - John Locke
  154. Sense & Sensability - Jane Austen
  155. Shogun - James Clavell
  156. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
  157. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
  158. So Long & Thanks for All the Fish (4) - Douglas Adams
  159. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
  160. Song of Roland - Anon
  161. Sophie's Choice - William Styron
  162. Sophie's World - Jostien Gaarder
  163. Souls of Black Folks - W.E.B. DuBois
  164. Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
  165. Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
  166. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
  167. Sybil - Flore Rhete Schreiber
  168. Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  169. Tales of Mystery & Imgination - Edgar Allan Poe
  170. Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
  171. Tempest, The - William Shakespeare
  172. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  173. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
  174. Time Machine - H.G. Wells
  175. Trainspotting - Irving Walsh
  176. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
  177. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
  178. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriett Beacher Stowe
  179. Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
  180. Utopia - Thomas More
  181. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
  182. Veronika Decides to Die - Paul Coelho
  183. Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides
  184. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
  185. War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  186. War of the Roses - Alison Weir
  187. War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
  188. Wicked Day - Mary Stewart
  189. Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  190. Witch of Cologne - Tobsha Learner
  191. Woman Who Walks Into Doors - Roddy Doyle
  192. Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum (9/1/06)
  193. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  194. Year of Living Dangerously - Christopher Koch
  195. Zen & the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
Author Comments: 

This is my "before I die" list.

Or perhaps... "before I have kids, while I still have a life of my own" list. Anyway. It's a long & eclectic list, to say the least. Some are on my list because as a History/Art History student... I feel they are educationally neccessary. Some are ones I was forced to read or read at a very young age, so I didn't have the appropriate mindset to appriciate them... so I'm going to give those a second chance. Others are purely for fun.

Hello... my name is Amanda & I am a book-a-holic.

List Created: May 8, 2006 (& continually added on to)