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October 19, 2006

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Just for the hell of it, I thought I'd go off of Bookslut and see how many of the list from 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die I had gotten through:

  1. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  2. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenide
  3. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
  4. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
  5. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
  6. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
  7. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
  8. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  9. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
  10. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
  11. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
  12. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
  13. Beloved – Toni Morrison
  14. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
  15. Contact – Carl Sagan
  16. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  17. Neuromancer – William Gibson
  18. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  19. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  20. The World According to Garp – John Irving
  21. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
  22. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
  23. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
  24. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
  25. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
  26. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  27. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  28. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  29. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
  30. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
  31. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  32. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  33. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
  34. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  35. The Third Man – Graham Greene
  36. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
  37. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
  38. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  39. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  40. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  41. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  42. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
  43. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  44. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
  45. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  46. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
  47. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  48. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  49. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
  50. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
  51. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  52. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
  53. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  54. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  55. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  56. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
  57. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  58. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  59. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
  60. Middlemarch – George Eliot
  61. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
  62. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  63. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  64. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
  65. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
  66. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  67. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
  68. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
  69. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  70. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
  71. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  72. Candide – Voltaire
  73. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
  74. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
  75. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

My goodness, that's depressing; I'm way behind on Dickens, for one thing, but I did leave off alll the Bronte and Hemingway I've read, as they bored me so much that I couldn;t remember the specifics of any of the books.

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