read the greatest books ever written

I picked up The Bonfire of the Vanities today from the school library. I am giving myself a week to read it. I have to read about 100 pages a day to make that goal.

In my book of things to do (101 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE), it recommends to read the “greatest books ever written”. The list includes:

1984

The Adventures of Huck Finn

American Psycho

An Artist of the Floating World

Animal Farm

The Art of War

Astrix and the Golden Sickle

Atomised

The BFG

Birdsong

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Brighton Rock

The Buddha of Suburbia

Catch-22

The Catcher in the Rye

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

A Christmas Carol

The Complete Works of Shakespeare

The Complete Fairy Tales (Brothers Grimm)

Crash

The Crow Road

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Danny, the Champion of the World

David Copperfield

Day of the Triffids

Don Quixote

Down and Out in Paris and London

Dubliners

Earthly Powers

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

The End of the Affair

Explaining Death to the Dog

Frankenstein

George’s Marvelous Medicine

Girlfriend in a Coma

Good Omens

The Grapes of Wrath

Gravity’s Rainbow

Great Expectations

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Hobbit

Holes

The Hotel New Hampshire

Kes (A Kestrel for a Knave)

Le Grand Meaulnes

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Lord of the Flies

The Magic Porridge Pot

The Master and Margarita

Memoirs of a Geisha

Midnight’s Children

Moby Dick

Mr. Tickle

The Name of the Rose

The New York Trilogy

No Logo

Not Fade Away

The Iliad and The Odyssey

Of Mice and Men

The Old Man and the Sea

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Our Man in Havana

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Perfume

Possession

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Pride and Prejudice

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist

Sarah

The Secret History

Stupid White Men

To Kill a Mockingbird

Treasure Island

Ulysses

Valley of the Dolls

The Van

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Wasp Factory

Waterland

Where the Wild Things Are

The Wind in the Willows

Winnie the Pooh

Winter’s Tale

The World According to Garp

Wuthering Heights

The highlighted books are ones that I have already read. Glad I got The Very Hungry Caterpillar out of the way… heavy read.