50 books to read before you die:

1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkien ((Read the first one but haven’t read the other two.))
2. 1984 – George Orwell
3. Pride And Prejudice – Jane Austen
4. The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinback
5. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. A Passage To India – E.M. Forster
9. The Lord Of The Flies – William Golding
10. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
11. A Bend In The River – V.S. Naipaul
12. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. The Catcher In The Rye – J.D. Salinger
14. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
15. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
16. The Diary Of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
17. Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes
18. The Bible – Various
19. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
20. Ulysses – James Joyce
21. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
22. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
23. Money – Martin Amis
24. Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling¹
25. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
26. The Wind In The Willows – Kenneth Grahame
27. His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman
28. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
29. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
31. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time – Mark Haddon
32. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
33. Heart Of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
34. The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope
35. The Outsider – Albert  Camus
36. The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
37. Life Of Pi – Yann Martel
38. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
39. The War Of The Worlds – H.G. Wells
40. Men Without Women – Ernest Hemingway
41. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
42. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
43. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
44. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
45. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
46. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
47. The Count Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
48. Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
49. The Divine Comedy – Alighieri Dante
50. The Picture Of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

I would highlight the books I have read but it’s quite embarrassing².  Think I’ve got a lot of reading material for the holidays/rest of my life.

How many have you read?

1. Okay, I didn’t read it technically.  I attempted but it didn’t really capture my attention. [↩]
2. Doing it anyway – talk about contradiction. [↩]