Tuesday, January 03, 2006
101 Books to Read Before You Die
101 Books to Read Before You Die
I have always called myself a bibliophile, and now that I got this list, I realized I am doing poorly in the Reading Department. Hopefully, I will have more years to read because I seriously want to finish the list.
A Clockwork Orange -Anthony Burgess
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
Of Mice and Men -John Steinbeck
Alias Grace- Margaret Atwood
American Psycho -Bret Easton Ellis
Perfume- Patrick Suskind
One Hundred Years of Solitude -Gabriel G. Marquez
All Quiet on the Western Front -Erich Maria Remarque
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay -Michael Chabon
Atonement -Ian McEwan
The Bell Jar -Sylvia Plath
The Great Gatsby -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beloved-Toni Morrison
The Big Sleep -Raymond Chandler
Brave New World -Aldous Huxley
Breakfast at Tiffany's- Truman Capote
The Diary of Anne Frank -Anne Frank
Catch 22 -Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye -J.D. Salinger
Cider with Rosie -Laurie Lee
The Color Purple -Alice Walker
Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crow Road -Iain Banks
Dracula -Bram Stoker
And Then There Were None -Agatha Christie
Captain Corelli's Mandolin -Louis de Bernieres
The Crimson Petal and the White -Michel Faber
The Daughter of Time -Josephine Tey
A Confederacy of Dunces -John Kennedy Toole
The Code of the Woosters P.G. Wodehouse
An Evil Cradling -Brian Keenan
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
The God of Small Things -Arundhati Roy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -Mark Haddon
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -Philip K. Dick
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -Hunter S. Thompson
The French Lieutenant's Woman -John Fowles
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy -Douglas Adams
The Hound of the Baskervilles -Arthur Conan Doyle
Great Expectations -Charles Dickens
Ham on Rye -Charles Bukowski
Hey Nostradamus! -Douglas Coupland
If This Is A Man -Primo Levi
What A Carve Up! -Jonathan Coe
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
An Instance of the Fingerpost -Iain Pears
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat -Oliver Sacks
House of Leaves -Mark Z. Danielewski
Huckleberry Finn -Mark Twain
I Capture the Castle -Dodie Smith
In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin
Jane Eyre -Charlotte Bronte
Jude the Obscure -Thomas Hardy
Life of Pi -Yann Martel
Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
Long Walk to Freedom -Nelson Mandela
Lord of the Flies William Golding
The Lord of the Rings -J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
Madame Bovary -Gustave Flaubert
MiddlesexJ -effrey Eugenides
Midnight's Children -Salman Rushdie
The Master and Margarita -Mikhail Bulgakov
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest -Ken Kesey
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit -Jeanette Winterson
The Monk -Matthew Lewis
The Name of the Rose -Umberto Eco
New York Trilogy -Paul Auster
Northern Lights -Philip Pullman
The Odyssey -Homer
The Outsider -Albert Camus
The Poisonwood Bible -Barbara Kingsolver
PossessionA.S. Byatt
Pride and Prejudice -Jane Austen
A Prayer for Owen Meany -John Irving
Rabbit, Run -John Updike
The Reader -Bernard Schlink
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner -James Hogg
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love -Raymond Carver
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists -Robert Tressell
Rebecca -Daphne du Maurier
The Remains of the Day -Kazuo Ishiguro
The Secret History -Donna Tartt
The Selfish Gene -Richard Dawkins
Siddhartha -Hermann Hesse
Slaughterhouse 5 -Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Falling on Cedars -David Guterson
Sophie's World -Jostein Gaarder
A Suitable Boy -Vikram Seth
Stalingrad -Antony Beevor
Things Fall Apart -Chinua Achebe
To Kill A Mockingbird -Harper Lee
Touching the Void -Jow Simpson
TrainspottingI -rvine Welsh
Waterland -Graham Swift
The Unbearable Lightness of Being -Milan Kindera
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle -Haruki Murakami
The Worst Journey in the World- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Woman in White -Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights -Emily Bronte
A Time of Gifts -Patrick Leigh Fermor
The ones in orange are stuff I've already read. Those in blue are the one's I tried to read...tried to read.
Oh well, I bet there are other books to be read before one dies.
Take for example, the one I'm reading right now - The Leadership Secrets of Queen Elizabeth I
hehe..amazing.
C h i n i k a n i M i m o s e n u n g b a n d a n g 2:14 PM