My Ultimate Reading List
Submitted by Veritas on Tue, 05/09/2006 - 04:22
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- My Ultimate Reading List: 84, Charing Cross Rd - Helene Hanff
- 1001 Arabian Nights - Anon
- A Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
- All Quiet On the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- American Gods - Neil Gaimon
- Analects - Confucious
- Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
- Apocrypha, The - Various
- Art of War - Sun Tzu
- Artist's Way: Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity - Julia Cameron
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
- Birth of Venus - Sandra Dunant
- 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)
- Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller
- Bookseller of Kabal - Asne Seierstad
- Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
- Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote (05/31/06)
- Briar Rose - Jane Yolen
- Call of the Wild - Jack London
- Carry on Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennesee Williams
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- Catcher In the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- Chosen, The - Chaim Potok
- Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Cider House Rules - John Irving
- "Civil Disobedience" - Henry David Thoreau
- Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
- Collected Poems - Robert Frost
- Collected Poems - T.S. Eliot
- Collected Poems - Emily Dickenson
- Collected Poems - William Wordsworth
- Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
- Count of Monte Christo - Alexander Dumas
- Courts of Love: Eleanor of Aquataine - Jean Plaidy
- Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevski
- Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
- DaVinci Code - Dan Brown (7/15/06)
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (9/25/06)
- Democracy in America - Alexis de Toqueville
- Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
- Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
- Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
- Drowned & the Saved - Primo Levi
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Eleanor of Aquatain - Alison Weir
- Emma - Jane Austen
- English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
- Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
- Faerie Queen, The - Edmund Spenser
- Farewell to Arms - Earnest Hemmingway
- Faust - Johann von Goethe
- Federalist Papers - Various
- Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt
- Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg
- Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
- Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
- Glass Menagerie - Tenessee Williams
- Godfather, The - Mario Puzo
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 9/25/06)
- Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
- Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift
- Gunpowder Plot: Terror & Faith in 1605 - Antonia Fraser
- Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (6/27/06)
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
- Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
- High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
- Hiroshima - John Hersey
- History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
- Histories - Herodotus
- Howl - Alan Ginsburg
- Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Mya Angelou
- Iliad - Homer
- Illuminator, The - Brenda Rickmand Vantrease
- Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- Inferno - Dante Alighieri
- Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice (5/23/06)
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Joan of Arc - George Bernard Shaw
- Josephine: Life of an Empress - Carolly Erickson
- Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
- Jungle, The - Upton Sinclair
- Jungle Book - Ruyard Kipling
- King Lear - William Shakespeare
- Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
- Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart
- Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
- Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- Letters from the Earth - Mark Twain
- Life, the Universe & Everything (3) - Douglas Adams
- Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Lost - Gregory McGuire
- Lovely Bones, The - Alice Sebold (5/31/06)
- MacBeth - William Shakespeare
- Magus, The - John Fowles
- Maltese Falcon - Dashielle Hammett
- Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
- Mein Kamf - Adolph Hitler
- Mirror, Mirror - Gregory McGuire
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
- Mostly Harmless (5) - Douglas Adams
- Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
- My Bondage & My Freedom - Frederick Douglass
- Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
- Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
- Odyssey - Homer
- Oedipus the King - Sophocles
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- Once & Future King - T.H. White
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
- Othello - William Shakespeare
- Other Boylen Girl - Phillipa Gregory
- Passage to India - E.M. Forrester
- Paradise Lost - John Milton
- Phantom of the Opera - Victor Hugo
- Phantom of Manhattan - Frederick Forsythe
- Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Prince, The - Niccolo Machiavelli
- Princes In the Tower - Alison Weir
- Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
- Purpose-Drive Life - Rick Warren
- Rabbit, Run - John Updike
- Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning
- Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
- Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
- Resteraunt at the End of the Universe (2) - Douglas Adams
- Romance of Tristan & Isuelt - Joseph Bedier
- Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
- Republic - Plato
- Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robery Kiyosaki
- Rubaiyat of Omar - Khayyam
- Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Scarlet Pimpernell - Baroness Orczy Emmuska
- Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
- Schindlar's List - Thomas Keneally
- Second Treatise on Government - John Locke
- Sense & Sensability - Jane Austen
- Shogun - James Clavell
- Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
- Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
- So Long & Thanks for All the Fish (4) - Douglas Adams
- Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
- Song of Roland - Anon
- Sophie's Choice - William Styron
- Sophie's World - Jostien Gaarder
- Souls of Black Folks - W.E.B. DuBois
- Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
- Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
- Sybil - Flore Rhete Schreiber
- Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Tales of Mystery & Imgination - Edgar Allan Poe
- Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
- Tempest, The - William Shakespeare
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- Time Machine - H.G. Wells
- Trainspotting - Irving Walsh
- Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriett Beacher Stowe
- Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
- Utopia - Thomas More
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
- Veronika Decides to Die - Paul Coelho
- Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- War of the Roses - Alison Weir
- War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
- Wicked Day - Mary Stewart
- Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Witch of Cologne - Tobsha Learner
- Woman Who Walks Into Doors - Roddy Doyle
- Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum (9/1/06)
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Year of Living Dangerously - Christopher Koch
- Zen & the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig








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)