Monday, February 1, 2010

Books To Read Before I'm 30






I've been a bookworm for as long as I can remember. The library is one of my favourite places to visit! A while back, I compiled a list of books I'd like to read before my 30th birthday. What a daunting list; we'll see how many I get to read this year! I'll mark them off as I read them

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (READ)
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut (READ)
The Invisible Man - HG Wells
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
The Misanthrope - Moliere
The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennesee Williams (READ)
1000 Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini(READ)
Hitler's Niece - Ron Hansen(read)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (READ)
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom (read)
The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (READ)
A Fable 1954 - William Faulkner
Sophie's Choice
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
East of Eden - Steinbeck
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
Wisdom of the Desert - Thomas Merton
Body Farm - Patricia Cornwell
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Republic - Plato
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (READ)
Silas Marner - George Eliot (READ)
Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
The Divine comedy - Dante
The Moving Finger - Agatha Christie
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adam
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (read)
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Conan Doyle
The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis (READ)
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan (read)
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Paradise Regained - John Milton
Dante's Inferno - Dante
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rebecca - Daphne duMaurier (READ)
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (READ)
Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas de Quincy
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw (read)
Plays Pleasant - George Bernard Shaw
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (READ)
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving (read)
Beowulf
4 Plays - Aristophanes
Emma - Jane Austen
Felix Holt - George Eliot
Diary of a Madman - Nikolai Gogol
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene (read)
Coming Up for Air - George Orwell (READ)
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
The Clergyman's Daughter - George Orwell
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Servant of the Bones - Anne Rice
Feast of all Saints - Anne Rice
Ordeal by Innocence - Agatha Christie
Black Coffee - Agatha Christie
Spider's Web - Agatha Christie (READ)
They Came to Baghdad - Agatha Christie (read)
Postern of Fate - Agatha Christie (READ)
Endless Night - Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Mr Quin - Agatha Christie (READ)
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (READ)

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