Wednesday, 26 June 2013

100 Books to read before I die (30 before 30)


 Just a quick post to make public my list of 100 books to read before I die. I've crossed out ones I've already read at this point. I intend to read a further 5 before my 30th birthday. Currently I'm reading my number 7. Wolf Hall. I will be updating on my full 30 before 30 challenge in the next few days.



 1. The colour purple – Alice Walker
2. Crime and punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
3. Utopia – Thomas More
4. Around the world in 80 days – Jules Verne
5. Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
6. The name of the rose – Umberto Eco
7. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
8. The Trial – Frank Kafka
9. Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut 
10. Tom Browns School Days – Thomas Hughes
11. The Odyssey – Homer
12. The Shooting Party – Anton Chekov
13. New Grub Street – George Gissing
14. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 
15. A room with a view – E M Forster
16. The turn of the screw – Henry James
17. The Prince – Nicola Machiavelli
18. A Tale of two cities – Charles Dickens
19. The Fall – Albert Camus
20. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
21. The Republic – Plato
22. The Red and Black – Stendhal
23. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
24. The Home and the World – Rabindranath Tagore
25. Six easy pieces – Richard Feynman
26. To Kill a mockingbird – Harper Lee
27. One hundred years of solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
28. A bend in the river – V.S Naipaul
29. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
30. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding 
31. Walden – Henry David Thoreau 
32. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
33. The Rape of the Lock – Alexander Pope
34. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathon Swift
35. Germinal – Emile Zola
36. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
37. The Warden – Anthony Trollope
38. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
39. The Saga of the Volsungs – Jesse L Byock (translation)
40. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
41. Candide – Voltaire
42. Last of the Mochicans - James Fenimore Cooper
43. Old Goriot – Honore Balzac 
44. King Solomens Mines – H Rider Haggard
45. The Lost World – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
46. The Monk – Matthew Lewis 
47. The Castle of Ortanto – Horace Walpole
48. The Fall of the house of Usher – Edgar Allen Poe
49. The Call of Cthulu – H.P Lovecraft
50. I Robot – Isaac Asimov
51. 2001 a space odyssey – Arthur C Clarke
52. The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
53. Dracula – Bram Stoker
54. All Quiet on the western front – Erich Remarque
55. The Snows of Yesteryear – Gregor Von Rezzori
56. A Grain of wheat – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
57. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
58. Invisible Man – Ralph Elison
59. The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
60. Rashomon – Ryunsuke Akutagawa
61. The Satanic Verses – Salmon Rushdie
62. Young Adam – Alexander Trocchi 
63. The God of small things –Arundhati Roy
64. Life Of Pi – Yann Martel 
65. Three Kingdoms – Kuan-Chung Lo
66. Monkey – Wu Ch’eng-en
67. Jamaica Inn – Daphne Du Maurier
68. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
69. Diary of a nobody – George Grossman
70. Three men in a boat – Jerome K Jerome
71. Faust – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
72. Bel-ami – Guy Maupassant
73. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
74. Long walk to freedom – Nelson Mandela
75. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
76. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemmingway
77. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
78. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
79. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
80. For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemmingway
81. Importance of being earnest – Oscar Wilde
82. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
83. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
84. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 
85. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
86. A Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
87. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
88. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 
89. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
90. Invisible Man – H G Wells
91. Moby Dick – Herman Melville 
92. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
93. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D Salinger
94. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
95. The 39 Steps – John Buchan
96. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
97. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
98. Paradise Lost – John Milton
99. Ulysses – James Joyce
100. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 







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