wolf_babe's "50 books to read before you die"

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I was given a stainless steel bookmark with this list on it. The bookmark was created by www.thatcompanycalledif.com based on an idea by j-me. This is a personal list so that I could keep up with my progress without anyone tampering with it but I don’t claim that this list came from my own head.

  1. 1.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  2. 2.
    1984
    by George Orwell

  3. 3.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  4. 4.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  5. 5.

  6. 6.
    Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte

  7. 8.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster

  8. 10.
    Hamlet
    by William Shakespeare

  9. 11.
    A Bend in the River
    by V. S. Naipaul

  10. 12.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  11. 13.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  12. 14.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  13. 15.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  14. 16.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

  15. 17.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  16. 18.
    The Bible

  17. 19.
    The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  18. 20.
    Ulysses

  19. 21.
    The Quiet American
    by Graham Greene

  20. 22.
    Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
    by Sebastian Faulks

  21. 23.
    Money
    by Martin Amis

  22. 24.
    Harry Potter series
    by J.K. Rowling

  23. 25.
    Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  24. 26.
    The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

  25. 27.
    His Dark Materials
    by Philip Pullman

  26. 28.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  27. 29.
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

  28. 30.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

  29. 31.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

  30. 32.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

  31. 33.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph, Conrad

  32. 34.
    Way We Live Now (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

  33. 35.
    The Outsider
    by Albert Camus

  34. 36.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  35. 37.
    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel

  36. 38.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  37. 39.
    The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. G. Wells

  38. 40.
    Men Without Women
    by Ernest Hemingway

  39. 41.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  40. 42.
    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

  41. 43.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

  42. 44.
    Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe

  43. 45.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

  44. 46.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  45. 47.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  46. 48.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden

  47. 49.

  48. 50.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Vintage Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

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Created by wolf_babe on Jun 09, 2009.
 

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