Wednesday, May 23, 2007

1,001 books you should read before you die

An interesting list: http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm?content_id=22845

From this list, I have read:
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
312. The Shining – Stephen King
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (in French and English)
592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
970. Candide – Voltaire

There's a bunch that are on my to be read shelves, a bunch more I've seen the movie adaptation, and I'm sure a handful I've read before but forgot. :-)

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