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101 Books to Read Before You Die

This is a list from Ottakar’s website. I’ve started to read these books and found it fun to keep a virtual checkoff.

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1. The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Umberto Eco
  
2. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
3. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
  
4. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Barbara Kingsolver
  
5. Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
  
6. Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
7. The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
  
8. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
  
9. Wuthering Heights (Courage Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
10. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
11. Lord of the Flies  
12. And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
  
13. Of Mice and Men
by Jon Steinbeck
  
14.
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 To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
15. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
16. Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charles Dickens
  
17. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
18. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
  
19. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
  
20. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
21. American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
  
22. Perfume
by Patrick Suskind
  
23. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
24. All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
  
25. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
  
26. Atonement: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
  
27. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
28. The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction)
by Raymond Chandler
  
29. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
30. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Truman Capote
  
31. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
32. Cider with Rosie (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Laurie Lee
  
33. Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)
by F.M. Dostoevsky
  
34. The Crow Road
by Iain Banks
  
35. Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)
by Bram Stoker
  
36.
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 Captain Corelli´s Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
  
37.
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 The Daughter of Time (The Best Mysteries of All Time)
by Josephine Tey
  
38. A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
  
39. The Code of the Woosters
by P.G. Wodehouse
  
40.
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 Evil Cradling
by Brian Keenan
  
41. Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
  
42. The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
  
43. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
  
44. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
  
45. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
by Hunter S. Thompson
  
46. The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
  
47. Ham on Rye: A Novel
by Charles Bukowski
  
48.
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 Hey Nostradamus by Douglas Coupland  
49. The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan, Sir Doyle
  
50. If This Is a Man (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Primo Levi
  
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Created by xbethanym07x on Jan 30, 2007.