101 Books to Read Before You Die

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I’ve started to read these books and found it fun to keep a virtual checkoff.

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  1. 1.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  2. 2.
    Alias Grace: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood
  3. 3.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque
  4. 4.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon
  5. 5.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis
  6. 6.
    And Then There Were None
    by Agatha Christie
  7. 7.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank
  8. 8.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan
  9. 9.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath
  10. 10.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  11. 11.
    Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction)
    by Raymond Chandler
  12. 12.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  13. 13.
    Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Truman Capote
  14. 14.
    Captain Corelli´s Mandolin
    by Louis De Bernières
  15. 15.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  16. 16.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  17. 17.
    Cider With Rosie (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Laurie Lee
  18. 18.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess
  19. 19.
    The Code of the Woosters
    by P.G. Wodehouse
  20. 20.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  21. 21.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole
  22. 22.
    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by F.M. Dostoevsky
  23. 23.
    The Crimson Petal and the White
    by Michel Faber
  24. 24.
    The Crow Road
    by Iain Banks
  25. 25.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon
  26. 26.
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    The Daughter of Time (The Best Mysteries of All Time)
    by Josephine Tey
  27. 27.
    Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick
  28. 28.
    Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Bram Stoker
  29. 29.
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    Evil Cradling
    by Brian Keenan
  30. 30.
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Hunter S. Thompson
  31. 31.
    Fingersmith
    by Sarah Waters
  32. 32.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand
  33. 33.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles
  34. 34.
    The God of Small Things
    by Arundhati Roy
  35. 35.
    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens
  36. 36.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  37. 37.
    Ham on Rye: A Novel
    by Charles Bukowski
  38. 38.
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  39. 39.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams
  40. 40.
    The Hound of the Baskervilles
    by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle
  41. 41.
    House of Leaves
    by Mark Z. Danielewski
  42. 42.
    I Capture the Castle
    by Dodie Smith
  43. 43.
    If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
    by Jon McGregor
  44. 44.
    If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Primo Levi
  45. 45.
    In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
    by Bruce Chatwin
  46. 46.
    AN Instance of the Fingerpost: A Novel
    by Iain Pears
  47. 47.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  48. 48.
    Jude the Obscure (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy
  49. 49.
    Life of Pi

  50. 50.
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    by Stephen Chbosky

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Comments

gordonmatthews

Sez who? — 1 year ago

There are a lot of books on this list that were pop faves at some time in the past (or are in the present) which I don’t think really form a necessary part of a well-read person’s experience. There are also some older selections which I happen to have read which were good (e.g. The Monk and Confessions of a Justified Sinner), but to consider them essential seems just plain weird.They’re more specialized reading.

Apr 08, 10:00AM | 1 comment | Reply to this

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JACK — 1 year ago

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