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

89. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
90. The Left, The Right & The State – Lew Rockwell
91. Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse by Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Ron Paul
92. Pillars of Prosperity by Ron Paul
93. The Creature From Jekyll Island
94. Napolitano- The Constitution in Exile

So…here are some ideas for books I want to read (my listing these here is solely for brainstorming purposes).....

New Moon by Stephanie Myer
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Eclipse by Stephanie Myer
Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Myer
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegaut
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marcia Marquez
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostovesky

.....and here are my 100 books I’ve completed:
1. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (4/15/2009)
2. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (6/10/2009)

85. Dalai Lama – The Universe in a Single Atom
86. Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time
87. Gandhi – The Story of My Experiments with Truth
88. Sharma – The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

57. Lemony Snicket – A series of Unfortunate Events
58. Orwell – Animal Farm (re-read)
59. Anne Rice – Interview with a Vampire
60. Eric Weiner – The Geography of Bliss
61. Krakauer – Under the Banner of Heaven
62. Haddad – Ron Paul Speaks
63. Ron Paul – A Foreign Policy of Freedom : Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship
64. Medved – The 10 Big Lies About America
65. Viktor E. Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning
66. Marinoff – Therapy for the Sane
67. Marinoff – The Middle Way
68. Marinoff – Philosophical Practice (someday)
69. Alain de Botton – The Consolations of Philosophy
70. Alain de Bototn – The Art of Travel
71. Marty Basch – Against the Wind
72. Rowling – The Tales of Beetle Bard
73. Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude
74. Stephen King – The Stand
75. Irving – The Cider House Rules
76. Burroughs – Running with Scissors
77. Pelzer – The Lost Boy
78. Niffenegger – The Time Traveler’s Wife
79. Chbosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
80. Anonymous – Go Ask Alice
81. The Last Lecture
82. Tucker Max – I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
83. Randall – Thomas Jefferson: a Life
84. Boaz – Libertarianism: a Primer

50. Gilbert – Eat, Pray, Love
51. Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
52. Ron Paul – The Revolution: A Manifesto
53. Gruen – Water for Elephants (finish it)
54. Beah – A Long Way Gone (finish it)
55. Meyer – Twilight
56. Preston – The Monster of Florence

My first part of this goal is just MAKING the list. I don’t want to take a generic list that I find on the internet, because I don’t want this goal to make me suffer – why read books I don’t enjoy? So, I’m going to adapt my own list from some other sources of the books I’ve always wanted to read.

1. Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
2. Dostoyevsky – Notes from Underground
3. Lawrence – Lady Chatterly’s Lover
4. Dostoyevsky – The Brother Karamazov
5. Bronte – Wuthering Heights
6. Dickens – David Copperfield
7. Thackeray – Vanity Fair
8. Capote – Breakfast at Tiffanys
9. Kerouac – On The Road
10. Austen – Emma
11. Homer – Odyssey (Re-read)
12. Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (Re-read)
13. Hugo – Les Miserables
14. Kerouac – Subterraneans
15. Orwell – 1984
16. Abbey – The Monkey Wrench Gang
17. Flaubert – Madame Bovary
18. Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
19. Tolstoy – War and Peace
20. McEwan – Atonement (finish it)
21. Palahniuk – Choke
22. Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible
23. O’Brien – The Things They Carried (finish it)
24. Eco – Foucaults Pendulum
25. Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera
26. Irving – The Cider House Rules
27. Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
28. Irving – The World According to Garp
29. Vonnegut – The Slaughterhouse-five
30. Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
31. Salinger – Franny and Zooey
32. Pasternak – Doctor Zhivago
33. Huxley – Brave New World
34. Proust – Remembrance of Things Past
35. Carroll – Through the Looking Glass
36. Dickens – Great Expectations (re-read)
37. Austen – Mansfield Park
38. Smith – The Wealth of Nations
39. Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
40. Carnegie – How to Win Friends and Influence People
41. London – Call of the Wild
42. Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
43. Thoreau – Walden
44. Rand – Atlas Shrugged
45. Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil
46. Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
47. Camus – The Stranger
48. Kierkegaard – Fear and Trembling
49. Krakauer – Into Thin Air

WOW I can’t believe how many things I’ve never read, or how many things I “had to read” for school and didn’t pay attention to! My list is halfway done and there are a million more that I can think of!

23. William Golding- Lord of the Flies

20. The end of Alice- A.M Holmes
21. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty- Ann Rice ( currently reading and it’s terrible)
22. Venus in Furs- Sacher Masoch

43. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
44. Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
45. Innocent man by John Grisham
46. Exodus by Leon Uris
47. Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat
48. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
49. Kite Runner by Khlid Husseini
50. Animal Farm by George Orwell

14. His dark Materials- Philip Pullman
15. The Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver- waiting from bookmooch
16. Lemony Snicket – A series of Unfortunate Events-done
17. Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
18. Les 3 Mousquetaires – Alexandre Dumas- reading
19. By grand central station I sat down and wept- just got it