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create a list of 100 must-read books and read them.

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The list...  — 2 years ago

Last edited: September 10 2007

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green = currently reading

1 Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
2 Richard Adams – Watership Down
3 Martin Amis – Money: A Suicide Note
4 Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
5 Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin OR Oryx and Crake
6 Jane Austen – Emma
7 Djuna Barnes – Nightwood
8 Samuel Beckett – Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable
9 John Birmingham – Weapons of Choice
10 Jorge Luis Borges – Fictions
11 Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
12 Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
13 William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch
14 A.S. Byatt – Possession
15 Italo Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
16 Italo Calvino- Invisible Cities
17 Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
18 Raymond Chandler – The Big Sleep
19 Raymond Chandler – Farewell, my Lovely
20 Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
21 Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
22 Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
23 Don DeLillo – White Noise
24 Philip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
25 Philip K. Dick – The Man in the High Castle
26 Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
27 Fyodor M Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment
28 Fyodor M Dostoyevsky – The Brothers Karamazov
29 Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca
30 George Eliot – Middlemarch
31 Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
32 William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
33 William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
34 F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
35 Neil Gaiman – Anansi Boys
36 Neil Gaiman – Smoke and Mirrors
37 Johann Wolfgang von Geothe – Faust
38 Gunter Grass – The Tin Drum
39 Graham Greene – The Heart of the Matter (or Our Man in Havana)
40 Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon
41 Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
42 Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
43 James Hilton – Lost Horizon
44 Homer – The Odyssey (Fagles translation)
45 Homer – The Iliad (Fagles translation)
46 Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
47 Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
48 James Joyce – Ulysses
49 James Joyce – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
50 Jack Kerouac – On the Road
51 Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
52 Stephen King – The Stand
53 Stephen King – The Shining
54 Rudyard Kipling – Kim
55 Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
56 John le Carre – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
57 Ursula K. Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness
58 Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook
59 Jack London – The Call of the Wild
60 Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
61 Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer
62 Toni Morrison – Beloved
63 Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
64 Haruki Murakami – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
65 Iris Murdoch – The Bell
66 Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
67 Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
68 Flann O’Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds
69 Flann O’Brien – The Third Policeman
70 Milorad Pavic – Dictionary of the Khazars
71 Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
72 Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow
73 Thomas Pynchon – The Crying of Lot 49
74 Thomas Pynchon – V
75 Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
76 Neal Stephenson – Quicksilver
77 Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
78 Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
79 Zadie Smith – White Teeth
80 Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
81 Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island
82 William Styron – Sophie’s Choice
83 Graham Swift – Waterland
84 Jonathon Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
85 Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
86 John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces
87 Mark Twain – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
88 John Updike – Rabbit, Run
89 Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle
90 Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five
91 Alice Walker – The Colour Purple
92 Evelyn Waugh – Scoop
93 Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
94 Edith Wharton – The House of Mirth
95 Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
96 Jeanette Winterson – Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
97 Gene Wolfe – The Fifth Head of Cerberus
98 Tom Wolfe – The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
99 Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
100 Virginia Woolf – Orlando

Well, I've made a start....  — 2 years ago

The first ten books on the list are:

1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
4. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
5. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
6. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
7. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
8. The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien
9. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
10. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

[Last updated 18 August 2006]

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