The Bonfire...
22 months ago
I picked up The Bonfire of the Vanities today from the school library. I am giving myself a week to read it. I have to read about 100 pages a day to make that goal.
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101 Things... Books
22 months ago
In my book of things to do (101 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE), it recommends to read the “greatest books ever written”. The list includes:
1984
The Adventures of Huck Finn
American Psycho
An Artist of the Floating World
Animal Farm
The Art of War
Astrix and the Golden Sickle
Atomised
The BFG
Birdsong
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Brighton Rock
The Buddha of Suburbia
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Christmas Carol
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Complete Fairy Tales (Brothers Grimm)
Crash
The Crow Road
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Danny, the Champion of the World
David Copperfield
Day of the Triffids
Don Quixote
Down and Out in Paris and London
Dubliners
Earthly Powers
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
The End of the Affair
Explaining Death to the Dog
Frankenstein
George’s Marvelous Medicine
Girlfriend in a Coma
Good Omens
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit
Holes
The Hotel New Hampshire
Kes (A Kestrel for a Knave)
Le Grand Meaulnes
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Lord of the Flies
The Magic Porridge Pot
The Master and Margarita
Memoirs of a Geisha
Midnight’s Children
Moby Dick
Mr. Tickle
The Name of the Rose
The New York Trilogy
No Logo
Not Fade Away
The Iliad and The Odyssey
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Our Man in Havana
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Perfume
Possession
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Pride and Prejudice
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
Sarah
The Secret History
Stupid White Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
Treasure Island
Ulysses
Valley of the Dolls
The Van
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Wasp Factory
Waterland
Where the Wild Things Are
The Wind in the Willows
Winnie the Pooh
Winter’s Tale
The World According to Garp
Wuthering Heights
The highlighted books are ones that I have already read. Glad I got The Very Hungry Caterpillar out of the way… heavy read.
