November 13, 2009 
Just want to give myself a little pat on the back (pat, pat, pat) for getting into a reading kick here in the last few months and knocking off a good number of books on my list. The original list was 85 books, and now I have only 10 left.
Below is the list; books that haven’t been read are in red, completed books in black. Any books you think should be added to the list (like, HELLO-Gone With the Wind !?). Any of these books that you have read (that I haven’t yet) that I need to be warned about ahead of time?
1984 by George Orwell
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Asterix and the Golden Sickle by R. Goscinny and A. Uderzo
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Complete Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm
Crash by J.G. Ballard
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
Danny, Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Dubliners by James Joyce
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Explaining Death to the Dog by Susan Perabo
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Girlfriend in a Coma by Doug Copeland
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Kes (Kestrel for a Knave) by Barry Hines
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Magic Porridge Pot by Anon
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Mr. Tickle by Roger Hargreaves
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
No Logo by Naomi Klein
Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Perfume by Peter Suskind
Possession by A.S. Byatt
A Prayer by Owen Meany by John Irving
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Sarah by J.T. Leroy
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ulysses by James Joyce
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
The Van by Roddy Doyle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks
Waterland by Graham Swift
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahamme
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Congrats! I still haven’t figured out which books I want to read for my list and you’re almost done with yours! Good job!
I’ve taken a Shakespeare class and I still have only scratched the surface on the Entire Works of Shakespeare list especially if it counts sonnets, etc.
I was thinking the other day that if I get all the others read, I may count this one as done without the Shakespeare collection.
Your list is great.
I would add A Farewell to Arms, by Hemingway. Terribly sad.
And Brave New World by Huxley.
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Thanks Ruth! I’ve read Brave New World and liked that one a lot. I’m not a big Hemingway fan but I read Good Omens and that was a lot of fun.
Hey! Thanks for visiting my blog the other day and saying hello! Where did you find this list of books? I’m trying to find a good one for our life list!
My list of books comes from the book by Richard Horne “101 Things to Do Before You Die” but there are a lot of lists out there you can choose from