Tuesday, March 17, 2009

1,001 Books I've Read

*Note: I am using the 2005 Edition of the 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die to prevent myself from going crazy each time a new edition gets printed and deletes 75% of the books I've already read.*

2000s

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Marc Haddon
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho

1900s
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Jazz by Toni Morrison
The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The World According to Garp by John Irving
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Labyrinths by Jose Luis Borges
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
1984 by George Orwell
The Plague by Albert Camus
U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

1800s
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Silas Marner by George Eliot
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

1700s
Candide by Voltaire
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

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