| Are you There God? It’s Me Margaret |
| Atlas Shrugged |
| Atonement |
| Beloved |
| Brave New World |
| Brideshead Revisted |
| Common Sense |
| Crime and Punishment |
| Deliverance |
| Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
| Doctor Zhivago |
| Don Quixote |
| Dracula |
| Fahrenheit 451 |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| Franny and Zooey |
| Gilead |
| Grapes of Wrath |
| Gulliver’s Travels |
| Heart of Darkness |
| His Dark Materials |
| Lady Chatterley’s Lover |
| Le Morte d’Arthur |
| Legends of the Fall |
| Les Miserables |
| Life of Pi |
| Lolita |
| Look Homeward, Angel |
| Lord of the Flies |
| Madame Bovary |
| Mathilda |
| Mein Kampf |
| Middlemarch |
| Moby Dick |
| Mrs Dalloway |
| Naked Lunch |
| Never Let Me Go |
| On the Road |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
| One Hundred Years of Silence |
| One Thousand and One Arabian Nights |
| Ragtime |
| Robinson Crusoe |
| Siddhartha |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| Slaughterhouse-Five |
| Sophie’s Choice |
| Starship Troopers |
| The Adventures of Augie March |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| The Art of War |
| The Bell Jar |
| The Blind Assassin |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| The Brothers Karamazov |
| The Call of the Wild |
| The Catcher in the Rye |
| The Confessions of Nat Turner |
| The Fountainhead |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
| The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud |
| The Invisible Man |
| The Joy Luck Club |
| The Last of the Mohicans |
| The Portrait of the Lady |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| The Red Badge of Courage |
| The Sun also Rises |
| The Time Machine |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
| The Wind in the Willows |
| Tom Jones |
| Treasure Island |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Vanity Fair |
| Walden |
| War and Peace |
| War of the Worlds |
| Watership Down |
| Wuthering Heights |
The titles struck out are ones that I have read already. This is something I will need feedback on. What titles did I miss? Any titles that shouldn't be on this list?
Having finalized my 30 before 30 list, the classic I have kept putting off that I am pledging to read before my 30th birthday is Wuthering Heights.
Until the next book...
**Today's title comes from the mouth of Jojen from Dance with Dragons from George R.R. Martin with the full quote reading: A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads only lives one.**
UPDATED 1/9/2014
Here are the titles that were suggested to be added
1984 (This was suppose to be on the list, not sure how I missed it on the draft that made it to print)
A Tale of Two Cities
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
Donna Andrews Mysteries
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
Edgar Allen Poe Collected Poetry
Ender's Game
Harry Potter Series
His Dark Materials Trilogy
Inferno
Janet Evanovich Mysteries
Never Let Me Go
Paradise Lost
Sirens of Titan
Speaker for the Dead
Stranger in a Strange Land
Selected Works of Edgar Allen Poe - The Cask of Amontillado
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov -I, Robot
The Book Thief
The Giver (the subsequent sequels)
The Historian
The Iliad
The Poisonwood Bible
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
The Red Tent
Ulysses
Further Updated: 1/22/2014
Other Books I have come across that I think I should read:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
And this is a reference list for as I liked hunger games, I should like these titles:
UPDATED 1/9/2014
Here are the titles that were suggested to be added
A Tale of Two Cities
Donna Andrews Mysteries
His Dark Materials Trilogy
Janet Evanovich Mysteries
Never Let Me Go
Sirens of Titan
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov -
The Book Thief
The Historian
The Poisonwood Bible
The Red Tent
Ulysses
Further Updated: 1/22/2014
Other Books I have come across that I think I should read:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Glass Castle
Kite Runner
The Wanderer’s Necklace
Bossypants
The Princess Bride
Everything is Illuminated
Things Fall Apart
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Murder on the Orient Express
American Gods
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A Brief History of Time
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
And this is a reference list for as I liked hunger games, I should like these titles:
Peter and the Starcatchers
Divergent
Uglies
Matched
Lightning Thief
Life as We Knew It
Bar Code Tattoo
Cinder
Among the Hidden
The Eleventh Plague
Dark Life
The City of Ember
Promised
Scorpio raced
Midnighters
Maze runner
Legend
Partials
Birthmarked
1984 recently won an informal poll/contest as best SciFi/Fantasy novel ever.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin'.
I think it beats the tar out of The Time Machine.
Also don't know how I feel about Shakespeare being on a reading list.
Poetry... yeah, okay, (BTW, no Paradise Lost or Inferno? What about Odyssey or Illiad? If you are going back, go WAY back... get some Gilgamesh up in this joint! jk), but the plays are written to be heard... not read.
Other notable omissions, IMO:
Alice/Looking Glass
His Dark Materials Trilogy (mebbe ah'm smokin' something on this one)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
And although I haven't read it, Ulysses should sure as hell be on the list before 2 Ayn Ran books!
I intended 1984, Dante's Inferno, and Paradise Lost to all be on this list! Somehow failed to get them properly up. The Odyssey is represented, but forgot to put the Iliad up on it.
ReplyDeleteI didn't think of Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass or His Dark Materials. I also had meant LOTR/Hobbit to make it on too. I will put Ulysses on the list, but I have read other things James Joyce and it is a bit much for me when I last read him.
Thank you for your suggestions, bro bro!