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

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
16. Lemony Snicket – A series of Unfortunate Events
17. Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
18. Les 3 Mousquetaires – Alexandre Dumas- reading
19. By grand central station I sat down and wept- just got it

12. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Folett)
13.David Copperfiled (Charles Dickens)

1. Luke Sullivan – Hey Whipple, Squeeze This
2. Dai Sijie – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
2. Max Frisch – I’m Not Stiller
3. William Faulkner – The Sound and The Fury
4. Jack Kerouac – On The Road
5. George Orwell – 1984
6. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
7. Vladimir Nabokov – Ada or Ardor
8. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
9. Lauren Weisberger – The Devil Wears Prada
10. Douglas Adams – The Hithchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
11. Edgar Allan Poe – Selected Tales
12. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude
13. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Living to Tell the Tale
14. Chuck Palahniuk – Fight Club
15. Milan Kundera – Slowness
16. Milan Kundera – Identity
17. Milan Kundera – Book of Laughter and Forgetting
18. C.S. Lewis – Chronicles of Narnia
19. Lewis Caroll – Alice in Wonderland
20. John Fowles – The Magus
21. David Lodge – How Far Can You Go?
22. Jon Steel – Truth, Lies and Advertising : The Art of Account Planning
23. Vladimir Nabokov – Masenka
24. Raymond Carver – Will You Please Shut Up, Please?
25. Louis Sachar – Holes
26. Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers
27. Sophie Kinsella – Confessions of a Shopaholic
28. Sophie Kinsella – Shopaholic and Sister
29. Sophie Kinsella – Shopaholic Ties the Knot
30. Sophie Kinsella – Shopaholic takes Manhattan
31. J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in The Rye
32. David Ogilvy – Ogilvy on Advertising
33. Wally Ollins – BRAND
34. Thomas Hardy – Far From the Madding Crowd
35. Yukio Mishima – After the Banquet
36. Yukio Mishima – Confessions of a Mask
37. Roger Zelazny – A Night in the Lonesome October
38. Eiji Yoshikawa – Musashi
39. Marian Keyes – Anybody Out There? : A Novel
40. Jennifer Weiner – Good in Bed
41. Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer
42. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
43. William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity Fair
44. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
45. Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and The Sea
46. John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
47. William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch
48. Henry Miller – Sexus
49. Gustav Meyrink – Golem
50. Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
51. Nick Hornby – Fever Pitch
52. Nedjma – The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman
53. John Irving – Until I Find You
54. Jeffrey Eugenides – Middlesex
55. Carolyn Mackler – The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
56. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

Angela’s Ashes
Animal farm
to kill a mockingbird

1st Part
38. Eiji Yoshikawa – Musashi
39. Marian Keyes – Anybody Out There? : A Novel
40. Jennifer Weiner – Good in Bed
41. Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer
42. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
43. William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity Fair
44. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
45. Ernest Hemingway – The Old Man and The Sea
46. John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
47. William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch
48. Henry Miller – Sexus
49. Gustav Meyrink – Golem
50. Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
51. Nick Hornby – Fever Pitch
52. Nedjma – The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman
53. John Irving – Until I Find You
54. Jeffrey Eugenides – Middlesex
55. Carolyn Mackler – The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
56. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

41. ‘Never let me go ‘by Kazuo Ishiguro
42. ‘The Chambers” by John Grisham

I had a few on my list which were doubles and also a few which I only felt so-so about reading, so here’s my updated list with (hopefully) only one of each book. :o)

1. Zen and the Art of Motrocycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
2. Weapons of Mass Deception (Sheldon Rampton/John Stauber)
3. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
4. Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue (Marquis de Sade)
5. Talk to the Hand (Lynne Truss)
6. English Patient (Michael Ondaatjee)
7. No Logo (Naomi Klein)
8. A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
9. I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
10. The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
11. Angela’s Ashes (Frank Mc Court)
12. Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip Dick)
14. Our Lady Of The Flowers (Jean Genet)
15. The Social Contract (Rousseau)
16. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
17. The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
18. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres)
20. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
21. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
22. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
23. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
24. The Grapes Of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
25. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
26. Anne Of Green Gables (LM Montgomery)
27. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
28. The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
29. The Count Of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
30. Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
31. The Silmarillion (JRR Tolkien)
32. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
33. A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
34. Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer)
35. Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
36. Memoirs Of A Geisha (Arthur Golden)
37. A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
38. Ulysses (James Joyce)
39. Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
40. Wise Children (Angela Carter)
41. The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
42. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
43. Katherine (Anya Seton)
44. The Princess Diaries (Meg Cabot)
45. Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie)
46. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
47. The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)
48. The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)
49. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
50. The Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
51. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
52. Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne)
53. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
54. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde)
55. The Beach (Alex Garland)
56. Faust (Goethe)
57. A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket)
58. 1984 (George Orwell)
59. The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
60. The Satanic Verses (Salmon Rushdie)
61. The Prophet (Khalil Gibran)
62. End Of An Affair (Graham Greene)
63. Collected poems (TS Eliot)
64. The Universe in a Single Atom (Dalai Lama)
65. The Iliad (Homer)
66. The Odyssey (Homer)
67. The Solitaire Mystery (Jostein Gaarder)
68. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
69. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint Exupery)
71. The Journals of Sylvia Plath (Sylvia Plath)
72. Zorba The Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis)
73. The Story of my Experiments with Truth (M K Gandhi)
74. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Joanne Greenburg)
75. The Second Sex (Simone de Beauvoir)
76. The Republic (Plato)
77. The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger)
79. Mother (Maxim Gorky)
80. A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
81. Death of a salesman (Arthur Miller)
82. The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)
83. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
84. Dracula (Bram Stoker)
85. The Day Of The Triffids (John Wyndham)
86. East Of Eden (John Steinbeck)
87. Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
88. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
89. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
90. Papillon (Henri Charriere)
91. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)
92. Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
93. Charlotte’s Web (E. B. White)
94. Lorna Doone (R. D. Blackmore)
95. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
96. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
97. American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
98. Flowers In The Attic (Virginia Andrews)
99. The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans)
100. The Name Of The Rose (Umberto Eco)