Procrastination of the literary persuasion...
So I stumbled across a list of 1000 books to read before you die. Here's the full list.
And here are
1900's
The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Billy Budd, Foretopman - Herman Melville
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Howards End - E.M. Forster
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
1800's
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
1700's
Candide - Voltaire
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
Pre-1700's
Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus
There were about 20 more that I'm reading, have almost finished, or have read parts of. But that means I still have hundreds and hundreds to go. *sighs and makes a face* Ah well!
And here are
1900's
1800's
1700's
Pre-1700's
There were about 20 more that I'm reading, have almost finished, or have read parts of. But that means I still have hundreds and hundreds to go. *sighs and makes a face* Ah well!