Books to Read Before You Die
According to the Guardian.co.uk, this is the list of the top 30 books everyone should read before they die in. As I am in the middle of trying to meet my goal of 50 books this year (43 as of half an hour ago!), I have a bit of an interest. I am going to do as has been done in the past: bold the books I've read, italicize the ones I would like to give a go, and strike through the ones I would rather not touch with a ten-foot pole. Feel free to steal if you so desire :)
1] To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2] The Bible
3] The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
4] 1984 by George Orwell
5] A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
6] Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7] Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8] All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque
9] His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
10] Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
11] The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
12] The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
13] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
14] Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
15] Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
16] Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
17] The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
18] Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
19] Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
20] The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
21] The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
22] The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
23] David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
24] The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
25] The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
26] Life of Pi by Yann Martel
27] Middlemarch by George Eliot
28] The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
29] A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess -I read about half this book and got so frustrated I threw it down. It makes absolutely not sense to me and wasn't worth my finishing so that I might understand better.
30] A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn
As an aside, I object to Jane Eyre being placed above Pride and Prejudice on the list. Pride and Prejudice was a far superior book.
Also, if you would like to read more, I found this list here.
1] To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2] The Bible
3] The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
4] 1984 by George Orwell
5] A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
6] Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7] Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8] All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque
9] His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
10] Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
11] The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
12] The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
13] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
14] Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
15] Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
16] Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
17] The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
18] Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
19] Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
20] The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
21] The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
22] The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
23] David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
24] The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
25] The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
26] Life of Pi by Yann Martel
27] Middlemarch by George Eliot
28] The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
29] A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess -I read about half this book and got so frustrated I threw it down. It makes absolutely not sense to me and wasn't worth my finishing so that I might understand better.
30] A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn
As an aside, I object to Jane Eyre being placed above Pride and Prejudice on the list. Pride and Prejudice was a far superior book.
Also, if you would like to read more, I found this list here.