Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Oh, and since you didn't ask ...

The 50 books in the 'to read before you die' list. Bold, I've read, Italics, I've started. Some are series, not books:

The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy; J.R.R.Tolkien*
1984; George Orwell*
Pride And Prejudice; Jane Austen*
The Grapes Of Wrath; John Steinbeck
To Kill A Mockingbird; Harper Lee
Jane Eyre; Charlotte Bronte*
Wuthering Heights; Emily Bronte*
A Passage To India; E.M.Forster
The Lord Of The Flies; William Golding*
Hamlet; William Shakespeare*
A Bend In The River; V.S.Naipaul
The Great Gatsby; F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher In The Rye; J.D.Salinger*
The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath
Brave New World; Aldous Huxley
The Diary Of Anne Frank; Anne Frank*
Don Quixote; Miguel De Cervantes
The Bible; Various*
The Canterbury Tales; Geoffrey Chaucer
Ulysses; James Joyce
The Quiet American; Graham Greene
Birdsong; Sebastian Faulks
Money; Martin Amis
Harry Potter Series; J.K.Rowling*
Moby Dick; Herman Melville*
The Wind In The Willows; Kenneth Grahame*
His Dark Materials; Philip Pullman*
Anna Karenina; Leo Tolstoy
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland; Lewis Carroll*
Rebecca; Dapgne Du Maurier
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time; Mark Haddon
On The Road; Jack Kerouac
Heart of Darkness; Joseph Conrad
The Way We Live Now; Anthony Trollope
The Outsider; Albert Camus
The Colour Purple; Alice Walker
Life Of Pi; Yann Martel
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley*
The War Of The Worlds; H.G.Wells*
Men Without Women; Ernest Hemingway
Gulliver's Travels; Jonathan Swift*
A Christmas Carol; Charles Dickens*
Huckleberry Finn; Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe; Daniel Defoe
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; Ken Kesey
Catch 22; Joseph Heller
The Count Of Monte Cristo; Alexandre Dumas
Memoirs Of A Geisha; Arthur Goden
The Divine Comedy; Alighieri Dante
The Picture Of Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde

-I haven't included any I may have watched in cartoon, live action or film form, any I've read in a condensed version in this wonderful book my father has (101 classics to read on the loo. It got my interest in Paradise Lost!) or any I've read in child-book format (Gulliver's Travels), or even any I know the story of just because I know the story, if that makes sense? All those just mentioned are denoted by a star. I'm not tagging this post, since there's over 50 authors mentioned!

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