My Ultimate Reading List

Submitted by Veritas on Tue, 05/09/2006 - 04:22
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  1. 84, Charing Cross Rd - Helene Hanff
  2. 1001 Arabian Nights - Anon
  3. 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion - Morgan Llewelyn
  4. A Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
  5. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
  6. Alexandra, the Last Tsarina - Carolly Erickson
  7. All Quiet On the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
  8. American Gods - Neil Gaimon
  9. Analects - Confucious
  10. Andersonville - MacKinley Kantor
  11. Annals - Tacitus
  12. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
  13. Apocrypha, The - Various
  14. Art of War - Sun Tzu
  15. Artist's Way: Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity - Julia Cameron
  16. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
  17. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
  18. Autobiography - Mohandas Ghandi
  19. Babylonian Captivity of the Church - Martin Luther
  20. Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
  21. Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  22. Birth of Venus - Sandra Dunant
  23. 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)
  24. Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller
  25. Bookseller of Kabal - Asne Seierstad
  26. Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
  27. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote (05/31/06)
  28. Briar Rose - Jane Yolen
  29. Call of the Wild - Jack London
  30. Carry on Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
  31. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennesee Williams
  32. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  33. Catcher In the Rye - J.D. Salinger
  34. Chosen, The - Chaim Potok
  35. Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  36. Cider House Rules - John Irving
  37. "Civil Disobedience" - Henry David Thoreau
  38. Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  39. Collected Poems - Robert Frost
  40. Collected Poems - T.S. Eliot
  41. Collected Poems - Emily Dickenson
  42. Collected Poems - William Wordsworth
  43. Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
  44. Confessions - St. Augustine of Hippo
  45. Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
  46. Constant Princess - Phillipa Gregory
  47. Count of Monte Christo - Alexander Dumas
  48. Courts of Love: Eleanor of Aquataine - Jean Plaidy
  49. Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevski
  50. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
  51. DaVinci Code - Dan Brown (7/15/06)
  52. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (9/25/06)
  53. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
  54. Decameron - Boccaccio
  55. Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
  56. Democracy in America - Alexis de Toqueville
  57. Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
  58. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  59. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
  60. Drowned & the Saved - Primo Levi
  61. Dune - Frank Herbert
  62. Eleanor of Aquatain - Alison Weir
  63. Emma - Jane Austen
  64. English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
  65. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
  66. Faerie Queen, The - Edmund Spenser
  67. Faith & Treason - Antonia Fraser
  68. Farewell to Arms - Earnest Hemmingway
  69. Fast Food Nation - Eric Shlosser
  70. Faust - Johann von Goethe
  71. Federalist Papers - Various
  72. Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
  73. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
  74. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Earnest Hemmingway
  75. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  76. Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt
  77. Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg
  78. Girl from Botany Bay - Carolly Erickson
  79. Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
  80. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
  81. Glass Menagerie - Tenessee Williams
  82. Godfather, The - Mario Puzo
  83. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  84. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  85. Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
  86. Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift
  87. Gunpowder Plot: Terror & Faith in 1605 - Antonia Fraser
  88. Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (6/27/06)
  89. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  90. Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
  91. Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
  92. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
  93. Hiroshima - John Hersey
  94. History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
  95. Histories - Herodotus
  96. How to Look At Sculpture - David Finn
  97. Howl - Alan Ginsburg
  98. Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
  99. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Mya Angelou
  100. Iliad - Homer
  101. Illuminator, The - Brenda Rickmand Vantrease
  102. Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  103. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  104. Inferno - Dante Alighieri
  105. Imitation of Christ - Thomas Aquinas
  106. Inimitable Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
  107. Institutes of Christian Religion - John Calvin
  108. Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice (5/23/06)
  109. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  110. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  111. Joan of Arc - George Bernard Shaw
  112. Josephine: Life of an Empress - Carolly Erickson
  113. Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
  114. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
  115. Jungle, The - Upton Sinclair
  116. Jungle Book - Ruyard Kipling
  117. Katherine of Aragon: The Wives of Henry VIII - Jean Plaidy
  118. King Lear - William Shakespeare
  119. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
  120. Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart
  121. Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
  122. Last Templar - Raymond Khoury
  123. Leaping Beauty & other Stories - Gregory McGuire
  124. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  125. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  126. Letters from the Earth - Mark Twain
  127. Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
  128. Life, the Universe & Everything (3) - Douglas Adams
  129. Life With Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
  130. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
  131. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  132. Lives of the Artists - Giorgio Vasari
  133. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  134. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
  135. Lost - Gregory McGuire
  136. Lovely Bones, The - Alice Sebold (5/31/06)
  137. Love & Louis XIV: Women of the Sun King - Antonia Fraser
  138. MacBeth - William Shakespeare
  139. Magus, The - John Fowles
  140. Maltese Falcon - Dashielle Hammett
  141. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
  142. Mary Queen of Scots & the Murder of Lord Darnley - Alison Weir
  143. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
  144. Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
  145. Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
  146. Mein Kamf - Adolph Hitler
  147. Mirror, Mirror - Gregory McGuire
  148. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  149. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
  150. Mostly Harmless (5) - Douglas Adams
  151. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
  152. My Bondage & My Freedom - Frederick Douglass
  153. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
  154. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
  155. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
  156. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
  157. Odyssey - Homer
  158. Oedipus the King - Sophocles
  159. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  160. On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
  161. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
  162. Once & Future King - T.H. White
  163. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
  164. Othello - William Shakespeare
  165. Other Boylen Girl - Phillipa Gregory
  166. Passage to India - E.M. Forrester
  167. Paradise Lost - John Milton
  168. Phantom of the Opera - Victor Hugo
  169. Phantom of Manhattan - Frederick Forsythe
  170. Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
  171. Politics - Aristotle
  172. Possession - A.S. Byatt
  173. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
  174. Prince, The - Niccolo Machiavelli
  175. Princes In the Tower - Alison Weir
  176. Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
  177. Purpose-Drive Life - Rick Warren
  178. Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, & Murder in Medieval England - Alison Weir
  179. Queen's Fool - Phillipa Gregory
  180. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
  181. Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning
  182. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
  183. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  184. Resteraunt at the End of the Universe (2) - Douglas Adams
  185. Romance of Tristan & Isuelt - Joseph Bedier
  186. Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
  187. Republic - Plato
  188. Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby
  189. Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robery Kiyosaki
  190. Rubaiyat of Omar - Khayyam
  191. Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  192. Scarlet Pimpernell - Baroness Orczy Emmuska
  193. Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
  194. Schindlar's List - Thomas Keneally
  195. Search for King Arthur - David Day
  196. Second Treatise on Government - John Locke
  197. Secret History - Donna Tartt
  198. Sense & Sensability - Jane Austen
  199. Shogun - James Clavell
  200. Short History of a Small Place - T.R. Pearson
  201. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
  202. Six Wives of Henry VIII - Alison Weir
  203. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
  204. So Long & Thanks for All the Fish (4) - Douglas Adams
  205. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
  206. Song of Roland - Anon
  207. Sophie's Choice - William Styron
  208. Sophie's World - Jostien Gaarder
  209. Souls of Black Folks - W.E.B. DuBois
  210. Sound & the Fury - William Faulkner
  211. Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
  212. Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
  213. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
  214. Summa Theologicae - Thomas Aquinas
  215. Sybil - Flore Rhete Schreiber
  216. Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  217. Tales of Mystery & Imgination - Edgar Allan Poe
  218. Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
  219. Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
  220. Tempest, The - William Shakespeare
  221. Templar Legacy - Steve Berry
  222. Ten Books of Architecture - Vitruvius
  223. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  224. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
  225. Thousand Days in Venice - Marlena de Blasi
  226. Time Machine - H.G. Wells
  227. To the Scaffold: Life of Marie Antoinette - Carolly Erickson
  228. Trainspotting - Irving Walsh
  229. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
  230. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
  231. Ulysses - James Joyce
  232. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriett Beacher Stowe
  233. Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
  234. Utopia - Thomas More
  235. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
  236. Veronika Decides to Die - Paul Coelho
  237. Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides
  238. Virgin's Lover - Phillipa Gregory
  239. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
  240. War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  241. War of the Roses - Alison Weir
  242. War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
  243. Warrior Queens - Antonia Fraser
  244. Wideacre - Phillipa Gregory
  245. Wicked Day - Mary Stewart
  246. Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  247. Witch of Cologne - Tobsha Learner
  248. Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
  249. Woman Who Walks Into Doors - Roddy Doyle
  250. Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum (9/1/06)
  251. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  252. Year of Living Dangerously - Christopher Koch
  253. 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)