Out of '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die', I've read or watched (more than half of) the following (in chronological order by date of publication):
Aesop's Fables - Aesopus
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Tes of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Third Man - Graham Greene
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre
Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep - Philip K. Dick
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Sea - John Banville
On Beauty - Zadie Smith (sort of)
Saturday - Ian McEwan (currently reading!)
Thursday, October 18, 2007
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Looks like an impressive list of excellent books. You could add my new book to your list, if you ever read crime fiction!
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