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