Sunday, January 2, 2011

1001 Books to Read Before You Die

I was reading a list (found here) of the 1001 books everyone should read before they die. I wanted to see how many of them I have read and thought I'd post the list here. I'll only post the ones I've read since there are so many, but check out the link if you want to see the entire list.

My list:
1. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
2. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
3. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
4. Contact – Carl Sagan
5. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
6. The Shining – Stephen King
7. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
8. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
9. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
10. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
11. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
12. Animal Farm – George Orwell
13. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry
14. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
15. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
16. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
17. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
18. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
19. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
20. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
21. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
22. Wuthering Heights – Emily BrontĂ«
23. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
24. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
25. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
26. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
27. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

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