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

and I have finished five books off my second list. They are in bold.

1. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
2. Tender Is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
4. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
5. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
6. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
7. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver
8. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
9. Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein
10. The Beautiful and Damned by F.Scott Fitzgerald
11. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
12. Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
13. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
14. The Essentials of Psycho-analysis by Sigmund Freud
15. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
16. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
17. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
18. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
19. Native Son by Richard Wright
20. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Couch by Benjamin Parzybok
22. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
23. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
24. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
25. John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes by John Peel
26. Old Goriot by Honore Balzac
27. Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier
28. Broken: A Novel by Daniel Clay
29. Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
30. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera
31. Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac
32. In Search of the Missing Eyelash by Karen Mcleod
33. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
34. Animal Farm by George Orwell
35. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: A Novel by Michael Chabon
36. Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
37. Girl Factory by Jim Kruesoe
38. The Stranger by Albert Camus
39. My Life by Anton Chekhov
40. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
41. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
42. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
43. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
44. French Milk by Lucy Knisley
45. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
46. The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
47. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
48. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
49. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
50. Pinball, 1973 by Huruki Murakami
51. Frankenstein: A Cultural History by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
52. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
53. The Wrecking Ball: A Novel by Christiana Spens
54. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
55. The Girl on the Fridge: Stories by Etgar Keret
56. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
57. Liars in Love by Richard Yates
58. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
59. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
60. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
61. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
62. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
63. Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore
64. Ask the Dust by John Fante
65. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
66. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
67. Epileptic by David B.
68. The Second Sex by SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
69. Expletives Deleted by Angela Carter
70. 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano
71. The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
72. Dance Night by Dawn Powell
73. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
74. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
75. Doghead by Morten Ramsland
76. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
77. Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
78. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
79. Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates
80. BUtterfield 8 by John O’Hara
81. Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz
82. Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates
83. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
84. White Walls: The Collected Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya
85. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
86. Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan
87. The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
88. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
89. Passing by Nella Larsen
90. Baudelaire Rimbaud Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
91. The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes
92. Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre
93. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
94. Life by Georges Perec
95. What Is the What by Dave Eggers
96. Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
97. What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin
98. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
99. Naked by David Sedaris
100. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

and I have only finished three books off my first list. They are in bold.

1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
2. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
4. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
5. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
6. Dead Souls: A Novel by Nikolai Gogol
7. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
9. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
10. Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
11. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
12. I Looked Alive: Stories by Gary Lutz
13. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson Mccullers
14. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
15. Emma by Jane Austen
16. The Peacock Manifesto by Stuart David
17. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
18. Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
19. Pastoralia by George Saunders
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
21. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
22. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
23. The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem
24. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
25. A Rage to Live by John O’Hara
26. Novels in Three Lines by Felix Feneon
27. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
28. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
29. Women In Love by D.H. Lawrence
30. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
31. Zeno’s Conscience: A Novel by Italo Svevo
32. Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
33. The Nimrod Flipout: Stories by Etgar Keret
34. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
35. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
36. A Void by Georges Perec
37. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
38. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
39. Geek Love: A Novel by Katherine Dunn
40. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
41. Wise Blood: A Novel by Flannery O’Connor
42. The Illustrated Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
43. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
44. Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
45. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
46. Persuasion by Jane Austen
47. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
48. Home Land: A Novel by Sam Lipsyte
49. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
50. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
51. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
52. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
53. The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret
54. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
55. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
56. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
57. Candide: Or, Optimism by Francois Voltaire
58. Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni
59. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
60. post office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
61. Beloved by Toni Morrison
62. White Noise by Don DeLillo
63. Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
64. Middlemarch by George Eliot
65. Crime and Punishment by F.M. Dostoevsky
66. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
67. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
68. The Complete Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
69. The Picture of Dorain Gray by Oscar Wilde
70. Cigarettes by Harry Mathew
71. Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka
72. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
73. The Little Girl and The Cigarette by Benoit Duteurtre
74. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
75. White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
76. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
77. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
78. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
79. The Wild Palms by William Faulkner
80. Stranger Things Happen: Stories by Kelly Link
81. Inferno by Dante Alighieri
82. Bed by Tao Lin
83. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
84. The Slynx: A Novel by Tatyana Tolstaya
85. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
86. Black Hole by Charles Burns
87. Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin
88. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
89. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
90. The Trial by Franz Kafka
91. Another Country by James Baldwin
92. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
93. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
94. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
95. Ulysses by James Joyce
96. Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
97. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
98. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
99. Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
100. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Although I haven’t finished my first list…I went ahead a made another “100 must-read books” list. I will still finish my first list. The second list will give me more options (and I just really like making lists).

100 must-read books part 2

1. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
2. Tender Is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
4. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
5. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
6. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
7. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver
8. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
9. Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein
10. The Beautiful and Damned by F.Scott Fitzgerald
11. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
12. Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
13. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
14. The Essentials of Psycho-analysis by Sigmund Freud
15. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
16. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
17. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
18. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
19. Native Son by Richard Wright
20. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Couch by Benjamin Parzybok
22. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
23. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
24. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
25. John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes by John Peel
26. Old Goriot by Honore Balzac
27. Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier
28. Broken: A Novel by Daniel Clay
29. Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
30. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera
31. Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac
32. In Search of the Missing Eyelash by Karen Mcleod
33. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
34. Animal Farm by George Orwell
35. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: A Novel by Michael Chabon
36. Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
37. The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
38. The Stranger by Albert Camus
39. My Life by Anton Chekhov
40. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
41. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
42. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
43. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
44. The Changeling by Joy Williams
45. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
46. The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
47. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
48. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
49. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
50. Down and Out on Murder Mile: A Novel by Tony O’neill
51. Frankenstein: A Cultural History by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
52. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
53. The Wrecking Ball: A Novel by Christiana Spens
54. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
55. The Girl on the Fridge: Stories by Etgar Keret
56. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
57. Liars in Love by Richard Yates
58. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
59. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
60. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
61. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
62. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
63. Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore
64. Ask the Dust by John Fante
65. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
66. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
67. Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
68. The Second Sex by SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
69. Expletives Deleted by Angela Carter
70. 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano
71. The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
72. Dance Night by Dawn Powell
73. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
74. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
75. Turn, Magic Wheel by Dawn Powell
76. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
77. 6 Sick Hipsters by Rayo Casablanca
78. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
79. Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates
80. BUtterfield 8 by John O’Hara
81. Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz
82. Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates
83. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
84. Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
85. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
86. Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan
87. The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
88. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
89. Passing by Nella Larsen
90. Baudelaire Rimbaud Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
91. The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes
92. Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre
93. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
94. Life by Georges Perec
95. What Is the What by Dave Eggers
96. Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
97. What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin
98. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
99. Naked by David Sedaris
100. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
2. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
4. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
5. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
6. Dead Souls: A Novel by Nikolai Gogol
7. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
9. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
10. Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
11. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
12. I Looked Alive: Stories by Gary Lutz
13. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson Mccullers
14. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
15. Emma by Jane Austen
16. The Peacock Manifesto by Stuart David
17. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
18. Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
19. Pastoralia by George Saunders
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
21. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
22. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
23. The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem
24. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel by Haruki Murakami
25. A Rage to Live by John O’Hara
26. Novels in Three Lines by Felix Feneon
27. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
28. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
29. Women In Love by D.H. Lawrence
30. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
31. Zeno’s Conscience: A Novel by Italo Svevo
32. Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
33. The Nimrod Flipout: Stories by Etgar Keret
34. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
35. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
36. A Void by Georges Perec
37. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
38. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
39. Geek Love: A Novel by Katherine Dunn
40. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
41. Wise Blood: A Novel by Flannery O’Connor
42. The Illustrated Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
43. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
44. Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
45. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
46. Persuasion by Jane Austen
47. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
48. Home Land: A Novel by Sam Lipsyte
49. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
50. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
51. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
52. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
53. The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret
54. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
55. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
56. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
57. Candide: Or, Optimism by Francois Voltaire
58. Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni
59. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
60. post office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
61. Beloved by Toni Morrison
62. White Noise by Don DeLillo
63. Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
64. Middlemarch by George Eliot
65. Crime and Punishment by F.M. Dostoevsky
66. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
67. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
68. The Complete Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
69. The Picture of Dorain Gray by Oscar Wilde
70. Cigarettes by Harry Mathew
71. Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka
72. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
73. The Little Girl and The Cigarette by Benoit Duteurtre
74. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
75. White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
76. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
77. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
78. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
79. The Wild Palms by William Faulkner
80. Stranger Things Happen: Stories by Kelly Link
81. Inferno by Dante Alighieri
82. Bed by Tao Lin
83. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
84. The Slynx: A Novel by Tatyana Tolstaya
85. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
86. Black Hole by Charles Burns
87. Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin
88. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
89. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
90. The Trial by Franz Kafka
91. Another Country by James Baldwin
92. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
93. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
94. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
95. Ulysses by James Joyce
96. Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
97. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
98. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
99. Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
100. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes