1001 Books

So I came upon this book list of 1001 Books to Read Before You Die, and though I do not plan to really try and read every book, I noticed several I have already read, and several I own. So I thought it would be fun to keep track of what I do read.

The list itself can be found here:

 
My List
 
 
Read
Middlesex: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides

Get Shorty
by Elmore Leonard

Billy Bathgate
by E. L. Doctorow

The Shining
by Stephen King

The Magus
by JOHN FOWLES

A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess

Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger

Catch 22
by Joseph Heller

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow

Lord of the Flies
by William Golding

The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger

Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell

Animal Farm
by George Orwell

The Little Prince

Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright

The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck

Good Morning, Midnight
by Jean Rhys

Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by John Steinbeck

A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh

To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
by Virginia Woolf

Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice

Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway

The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Billy Budd, Foretopman
by Herman Melville

A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster

Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse

The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
by Edith Wharton

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
by James Joyce

The Rainbow (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by D.H. Lawrence

Death in Venice

The House of Mirth (Signet Classics)
by Edith Wharton

Kim (Norton Critical Editions)
by Rudyard Kipling

The Turn of the Screw: And Other Short Novels
by Henry James

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Anna Karenina (Oprah’s Book Club)
by Leo Tolstoy

Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens

Madame Bovary (Oxford World’s Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert

The Blithedale Romance (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë

The Purloined Letter
by Edgar Allan Poe

The Pit and the Pendulum
by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allan Poe

Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
by Jane Austen

The Classic Treasury of Aesop’s Fables (Children’s Illustrated Classics)

Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
by Mary Shelley

Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)
by Jane Austen

Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen

The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
 
The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
Three Lives
Gertrude Stein
 
The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
by Upton Sinclair
Kidnapped (Penguin Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
The Handmaids Tale
Margaret Atwood
100 Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
John Fowles
The Master of Ballantrae
Robert Louis  Stevenson
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
A Room With A View
E.M Forster
Fathers  and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
 
Reading
 
Cat’s Eye
by Margaret Atwood
Foucaults Pendulum
Umberto Eco
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence
The Scarlet Letter
Nathanial Hawthrone

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