I just love book lists – almost as much as I love books themselves. I got this book list from a Goodreads group with the same name as the list. So . . . thought I’d put the list on my blog here to keep track of which books I’ve actually read, and we’ll see how many I get to read before . . . . that morbid thing happens.
Fifty Books to Read Before You Die
I will check off each book as I get it read. I’ve already read a lot of the books on this list and will try to fit the others into my busy reading schedule!
☆ – I own a copy of the book
★ – I own a copy and am currently reading the book
% – I’ve read part of it and stalled, so need to finish up
? – I honestly don’t remember if I’ve read this or not
✓ – Finished – 21/50 currently
✓ 1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
✓ 2. 1984 by George Orwell
✓ 3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
✓ 4. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
✓ 5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
✓ 6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
✓ 7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
★ 8. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
✓ 9. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
? 10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
11. A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
✓ 12. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
✓ 13. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
✓ 14. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
☆ 15. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
✓ 16. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
% 17. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
✓ 18. The Bible by Various
★ 19. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
20. Ulysses by James Joyce
21. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
22. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
23. Money by Martin Amis
% 24. Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
%☆ 25. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
☆ 26. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
27. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
✓ 28. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
29. Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
30. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
✓ 31. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
% 32. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
33. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
☆ 34. The Way We Live Now by Antony Trollope
35. The Outsider by Albert Camus
✓ 36. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
✓ 37. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
38. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
39. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
40. Man Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
✓ 41. Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
✓ 42. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
43. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
44. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
45. One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
✓ 46. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
✓ 48. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
★ 49. The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
☆ 50. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
I found this list through the 50 Books to Read Before You Die group on Goodreads.
Image credits: The big book photos came from Pixabay.com and I altered them in Paint Shop Pro.
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