So I have read a lot of books in my lifetime. Other people have booze, narcotics and quilting, I have my books. However, each time I move house I do a cull on my books so I couldn't tell you all the books I have read (unlike this man - mildly disturbing but I really cant speak and I'm almost jealous). I found this list, is quite interesting much more me, although apparently I've only read sixty-one on it, tell lies sixty two I have read the bible - although I am unlikely to read it again.
The list - Ones in green I have read and I agree that you should have read them by now. Ones in blue have read and would read again, but they didn't rock my world, may not rock yours. Ones in pink have read and in all truth wont read again. Yellow I started them but for various reasons (boredom being the big one) didn't finish them and unlikely to finish reading them.
- King James Bible
- Quran
- Abbey, Edward - Desert Solitaire
- Abbott, Edwin - Flatland
- Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
- Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Adams, Henry - The Education of Henry Adams
- Adams, Richard - Watership Down
- Aesop - Aesop's Fables
- Agee, James - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
- Aligheri, Dante - The Divine Comedy
- Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim
- Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg, Ohio
- Asimov, Isaac - Gold
- Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale
- Austen, Jane - Emma
- Baldwin, James - Giovanni's Room
- Barth, John - Lost in the Funhouse
- Baum, L. Frank - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
- Bellow, Saul - Herzog
- Berger, Thomas - Little Big Man
- Bester, Alfred - The Stars My Destination
- Bissinger, H.G. - Friday Night Lights
- Borges, Jorge Luis - Ficciones
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - The Tortilla Curtain
- Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
- Bradley, Marion Zimmer - The Mists of Avalon
- Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
- Brown, Dee - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Buck, Pearl S. - The Good Earth
- Bukowski, Charles - Post Office
- Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange
- Burroughs, William S. - Naked Lunch
- Calvino, Italo - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Camus, Albert - The Stranger
- Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood
- Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game
- Carroll, Jim - The Basketball Diaries
- Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Carroll, Peter - Liber Null
- Carson, Rachel - Silent Spring
- Cather, Willa - My Antonia
- Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote
- Chabon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Chandler, Raymond - The Long Goodbye
- Cheever, John - The Stories of John Cheever
- Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
- Clarke, Arthur C. - Childhood's End
- Confucius - The Analects
- Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
- Pat Conroy - The Prince of Tides
- Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
- Coupland, Douglas - Microserfs
- Cunningham, Michael - The Hours
- Dahl, Roald - Danny the Champion of the World
- Danielewski, Mark - House of Leaves
- Davies, Robertson - The Deptford Trilogy
- Dawkins, Richard - The Blind Watchmaker
- Delany, Samuel - Dhalgren
- De Beauvoir, Simone - The Second Sex
- DeLillo, Dom - Underworld
- Dick, Philip K. - The Man in the High Castle
- Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield
- Dickey, James - Deliverance
- Dickinson, Emily - The Complete Poems
- Dinesen, Isak - Out of Africa
- Doctorow, E.L. - World's Fair
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Brothers Karamazov
- Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
- DuBois, W.E.B. - The Souls of Black Folk
- Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
- du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
- Eco, Umberto - Foucault's Pendulum
- Eggers, Dave - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Eliot, George - Silas Marner
- Eliot, T.S. - The Waste Land
- Ellis, Bret Easton - American Psycho
- Ellison, Harlan - The Essential Ellison
- Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
- Ellroy, James - L.A. Confidential
- Euclid - The Elements
- Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Virgin Suicides
- Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
- Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
- Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
- Fo, Dario - Accidental Death of an Anarchist
- Ford, Richard - The Sportswriter
- Forster, E.M. - A Room With A View
- Fowles, John - The Magus
- Gaarder, Jostein - Sophie's World
- Gabaldon, Diana - Outlander
- Gaiman, Neil - American Gods
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Gibran, Kahlil - The Prophet
- Gibson, William - Count Zero
- Ginsberg, Allen - Howl
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
- Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
- Grahame, Kenneth - The Wind in the Willows
- Grass, Günter - The Tin Drum
- Greene, Graham - The Power and the Glory
- Grimm, Wilhelm and Jacob - The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Haggard, H. Rider - She
- Haley, Alex - Roots
- Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Hamilton, Edith - Mythology
- Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon
- Hansberry, Lorraine - A Raisin in the Sun
- Harris, Mark - Bang the Drum Slowly
- Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
- Heinlein, Robert - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
- Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell To Arms
- Henry, O. - 41 Stories
- Herbert, Frank - Dune
- Hesse, Herman - Siddharta
- Hofstadter, Douglas - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Homer - The Odyssey
- Hornby, Nick - High Fidelity
- Hughes, Langston - The Collected Poems
- Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
- Ibsen, Henrik - The Wild Duck
- Irving, John - A Prayer For Owen Meany
- Jackson, Shirley - The Lottery and Other Stories
- James, William - The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Jin, Ha - War Trash
- Jones, Edward P. - The Known World
- Jones, James - From Here to Eternity
- Joyce, James - Ulysses
- Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
- Keats, John - The Complete Poems
- Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
- Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon
- King, Stephen - It
- Kingsolver, Barbara - The Poisonwood Bible
- Kinsella, W.P. - Shoeless Joe
- Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
- Knowles, John - A Separate Peace
- Koestler, Arthur - Darkness at Noon
- Kohn, Alfie - No Contest
- Kristol, Irving - Neoconservatism
- Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Lahiri, Jhumpa - Interpreter of Maladies
- Larson, Erik - The Devil in the White City
- Larson, Gary - The Complete Far Side
- Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and Lovers
- Lee, Harper - To Kill A Mockingbird
- LeGuin, Ursula K. - The Left Hand of Darkness
- Lem, Stanislaw - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
- Leonard, Elmore - Swag
- Leopold, Aldo - A Sand County Almanac
- Levy, Steven - Hackers
- Lewis, C.S. - Mere Christianity
- Lewis, Meriwether and Clark, William - The Journals of Lewis and Clark
- Lewis, Michael - Moneyball
- Lewis, Sinclair - It Can't Happen Here
- London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
- Lowry, Lois - The Giver
- Mailer, Norman - The Executioner's Song
- Marlowe, Christopher - Doctor Faustus
- Martin, George R.R. - A Game of Thrones
- Marx, Karl - The Communist Manifesto
- Masters, Edgar Lee - Spoon River Anthology
- McCarthy, Cormac - The Border Trilogy
- McCourt, Frank - Angela's Ashes
- McMurtry, Larry - Lonesome Dove
- Mellick, Carlton III - Razor Wire Pubic Hair
- Miller, Arthur - Death of a Salesman
- Miller, Henry - Tropic of Cancer
- Miller Jr., Walter M. - A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Milne, A.A. - Winnie the Pooh
- Milton, John - Paradise Lost
- Moore, Alan - The Watchmen
- More, Thomas - Utopia
- Morris, Edmund - Dutch
- Morrison, Toni - Beloved
- Murakami, Haruki - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
- Nietzsche, Friedrich - The Portable Nietzsche
- Oates, Joyce Carol - We Were The Mulvaneys
- O'Nan, Stewart - A Prayer for the Dying
- Orczy, Baroness Emmuska - The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Orwell, George - 1984
- Palahniuk, Chuck - Fight Club
- Perez, Richard - The Loser's Club
- Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
- Plato - The Republic
- Poe, Edgar Allan - Collected Tales and Poems
- Pound, Ezra - Selected Poems
- Pullman, Philip - Northern Lights
- Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
- Quinn, Daniel - Ishmael
- Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead
- Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
- Reynolds, Sheri - The Rapture of Canaan
- Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea
- Robbins, Tom - Still Life With Woodpecker
- Roberts, J.M. - The New History of the World
- Robinson, Kim Stanley - The Years of Rice and Salt
- Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping
- Roth, Philip - Portnoy's Complaint
- Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Rushdie, Salman - The Satanic Verses
- Russo, Richard - Empire Falls
- Sachar, Louis - Holes
- Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
- Schlosser, Eric - Fast Food Nation
- Scott, Walter - Ivanhoe
- Sedaris, David - Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
- Shakur, Tupac - The Rose That Grew From Concrete
- Shaw, Bernard - Pygmalion
- Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
- Shirer, William - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Shute, Nevil - On the Beach
- Simmons, Dan - Hyperion
- Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
- Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Spiegelman, Art - Maus
- Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
- Stephenson, Neal - Quicksilver
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Stoker, Bram - Dracula
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Styron, William - Sophie's Choice
- Sundman, John F.X. - Acts of the Apostles
- Svevo, Italo - Confessions of Zeno
- Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
- Takami, Koushun - Battle Royale
- Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club
- Tartt, Donna - The Secret History
- Thomas, Dylan - The Collected Poems
- Thompson, Craig - Blankets
- Thompson, Hunter S. - Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
- Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
- Tocqueville, Alexis de - Democracy in America
- Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings
- Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
- Toole, John Kennedy - A Confederacy of Dunces
- Trumbo, Dalton - Johnny Got His Gun
- Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher - A Midwife's Tale
- Updike, John - Rabbit, Run
- Vergil - The Aeneid
- Vinge, Vernor - A Deepness in the Sky
- Voltaire - Candide
- Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse Five
- Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
- Wallace, David Foster - Infinite Jest
- Warren, Robert Penn - All The King's Men
- Watterson, Bill - The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
- Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited
- Webb, Mary - Precious Bane
- Wells, H.G. - The War of the Worlds
- Welsh, Irvine - Trainspotting
- Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
- White, E.B. - Charlotte's Web
- White, T.H. - The Once and Future King
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
- Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wilder, Thornton - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Williams, Tennessee - A Streetcar Named Desire
- Wolff, Tobias - This Boy's Life
- Wolfe, Tom - The Right Stuff
- Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
- Wordsworth, William - The Major Works
- Wright, Richard - Native Son
- Yeats, William Butler - The Collected Works, Volume I
- Zinn, Howard - A People's History of the United States
Hmmm I appear to have a deep divide I have read a number traditional classical literature and tbh most of them I would read again, and contemporary literature. I also am wary of so called contemporary literature (with a capital L) they just don't resonate with me (well most of them anyway). I read a lot of historical fiction. I also have a tendency to read the back of the book and if it doesn't grab me I don't buy it. I'm not a big believer in if someone says its awesome I should read it (although The Time Traveller's Wife was indeed rocking).
I need to work on my own list I think.
S.
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