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Create my own list of '100 Books To Read Before You Die'... and read them!


 

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tippytoes is a self-knowing, self-improving tree hugger

Titles #62-101 (ok, so I have 101!) 3 months ago

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62) Paradise Lost (John Milton)
63) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
64) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
65) Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1- Swann’s Way & Within a Budding Grove (Marcel Proust)
66) The Snow Leopard (Peter Matthiessen)
67) Ariel (Sylvia Plath)
68) Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki (David Chadwick)
69) Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl)
70) Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings (Matsuo Basho)
71) The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Michel Foucault)
72) The Stranger (Albert Camus)
73) The Crime of the Congo (Arthur Conan Doyle)
74) The Inheritors (Joseph Conrad)
75) The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement’s Congo Report and 1903 Diary (Roger Casement)
76) Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo on the Year of Grace 1906 (E.D. Morel)
77) History of the Congo Reform Movement (E.D. Morel)
78) King Leopold’s Soliloquy (Mark Twain)
79) Is Paris Burning? (Larry Collins)
80) O Jerusalem (Dominique Lapierre)
81) Einstein: His Life and Universe (Walter Isaacson)
82) Ideas and Opinions (Albert Einstein)
83) The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishments of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (Thomas Clarkson)
84) The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey (Adam Hochschild)
85) The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (Adam Hochschild)
86) Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portrats, Travels (Adam Hochschild)
87) Metamorphoses (Publius Ovidius Naso)
88) The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
89) Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt)
90) Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa (Stephen Lewis)
91) Selected Poems (Rabindranath Tagore)
92) Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World (David Maraniss)
93) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Naomi Klein)
94) The World Without Us (Alan Weisman)
95) The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
96) A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
97) Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All (Wilhelm Friedrich Nietzsche)
98) Atlas Shurgged (Ayn Rand)
99) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig)
100) Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
101) Being and Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre)



tippytoes is a self-knowing, self-improving tree hugger

Titles #1-61 (in no particular order) 3 months ago

Oh, the wonder of Goodreads.com
I can now track everything I read! Anyway, I’m going to post the books that made my list of “to read before I die”

1) Nothing to Do, Nowhere to Go: Reflections on the Teachings of Zen Master Lin Chi (Thich Nhat Hanh)
2) A moveable feast (Ernest Hemingway)
3) 28: Stories of Aids in Africa (Stephanie Nolen)
4) This is your brain on music: the science of a human obsession (Daniel Levithin)
5) Three cups of tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time (Greg Mortenson)
6) Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet (Xinran)
7) The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
8) One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest (Ken Kesey)
9) Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
10) TheGulag Archipelago: Volume 1: An experiment in Literary Investigation (Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn)
11) Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)
12) Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
13) Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Azar Nafisi)
14) A Short History of Progress (Ronald Wright)
15) New World Order (Ronald Wright)
16) Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico (Ronald Wright)
17) Infinite Jest: A Novel (David Foster Wallace)
18) A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (David Foster Wallace)
19) When You Are Engulfed in Flames (David Sedaris)
20) The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
21) Cockroach (Rawi Hage)
22) One Fifth Avenue (Candace Bushnell)
23) The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Alfred W. McCoy)
24) Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom (William Glasser)
25) To Be Human (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
26) To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche (Erich Fromm)
27) The Art of Being (Erich Fromm)
28) The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas (Mahatma Gandhi)
29) The Wisdom of Human Kind (Leo Tolstoy)
30) One, Two, Three…Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science (George Gamow)
31) Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Oliver W. Sacks)
32) The Island of the Colorblind (Oliver W. Sacks)
33) Seeing Voices (Oliver W. Sacks)
34) Migraine (Oliver W. Sacks)
35) Freud and the Neurosciences: From Brain Research to the Unconscious (Oliver W. Sacks)
36) The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory (Alexander R. Luria)
37) The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Steven Weinberg)
38) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
39) King Solomon’s Ring (Konrad Lorenz)
40) Identity Crisis (Susan Greenfield)
41) The Leopard (Tomasi di Giuseppe Lampedusa)
42) A Brief Tour of Human Concsciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers (V.S. Ramachandran)
43) The Emerging Mind (V.S. Ramachandran)
44) Art of the Soluble (P.B. Medawar)
45) As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
46) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
47) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
48) The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
49) David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
50) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe)
51) A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
52) Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
53) The Odyssey (Homer)
54) Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
55) William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (Nigel Williams)
56) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
57) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
58) Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (Shunryu Suzuki)
59) Monsignor Quixote (Graham Greene)
60) Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man’s Hunger in His Youth (Thomas Wolfe)
61) Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen)




 

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