Lisa F's "100 Books to Read"

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100 books I should have read, or only read parts of, that I need to get through before I die. Mostly classics, some history and philosophy, all worthwhile reads.

  1. 1.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett

  2. 2.
    The Republic (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato

  3. 3.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

  4. 4.
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    Moby Dick
    by Herman Melville

  5. 5.
    Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  6. 6.
    Thus Spake Zarathustra
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

  7. 7.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  8. 8.
    1984
    by George Orwell

  9. 9.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

  10. 10.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  11. 11.
    ULYSSES
    by James Joyce

  12. 12.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  13. 13.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

  14. 14.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  15. 15.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  16. 16.
    The Science of Hitting
    by Ted Williams

  17. 17.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  18. 18.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka

  19. 19.
    Ryan White: My Own Story (Signet)
    by Ryan White

  20. 20.
    Ender's Game
    by Orson Scott Card

  21. 21.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  22. 22.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  23. 23.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

  24. 24.
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    by Malcolm Little

  25. 25.
    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
    by Tom Wolfe

  26. 27.
    The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)
    by Dante Alighieri

  27. 28.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

  28. 29.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown

  29. 30.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  30. 31.
    The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

  31. 32.
    Adventures of Huck Finn
    by Mark Twain

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Created by Lisa F on Aug 08, 2006.
 

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