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

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.


JACK — 1 year ago

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