50 books to read before you die discussion

This year I will poll 10 books from our list each month. This way each book will have a chance to be voted on during the year. I will not include any books we have already read.

See comment number 4.

1 READ: We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver - March 2015
2 READ: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith - January 2017
3 READ: Mossflower - Brian Jacques - January 2019
4 READ:The New Jim Crowe - Michelle Alexander - February 2019
5 READ: A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini - May 2014
6 READ: Little Women - Louisa May Alcott - January 2017
7 READ: Middlemarch - George Elliot - January 2018
8 READ: The Discworld Series - Terry Pratchett - July 2018
9 READ: The Collected Works - EE Cummings- March 2019
10 READ: The Thirteenth Tale - Dianne Setterfield - April 2019
11 READ: The Book Thief - Markus Zusak - February 2014
12 READ: I am the Messenger - Markus Zusak - February 2017
13 READ: A Bell for Adano - John Hersey - May 2019
14 READ: East of Eden - John Steinbeck - September 2014
15 READ: Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - July 2014
16 READ: A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway - September 2017
17 READ: The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein - June 2019
18 READ: Tess of the D'urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - October 2017
19 READ: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson - July 2016
20 READ: Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - October 2014
21 READ: The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho - April 2015
22 READ: The Shining - Steven King - July 2016
23 READ: The Shack - W Young - June 2019
24 READ: The Last Man - Mary Shelly - July 2019
25 READ: Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov - July 2019
26 READ: My First White Friend - Patricia Raybon - August 2019
27 READ: Persuasion - Jane Austin - December 2016
28 READ: The Fault in Our Stars - John Green - April 2014
29 READ: Very Bad Men - Harry Dolan - August 2019
30 READ: Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - August 2016
31 READ: Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - February 2018
32 READ: Watership Down - Richard Adams - March 2017
33 READ: Night - Elie Wiesel - September 2019
34 READ: Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - September 2019
35 READ: The Stand - Stephen King - October 2019
36 READ: A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - October 2014
37 READ: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - February 2015
38 READ: Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - June 2016
39 READ: The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway - June 2014
40 READ: For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway - April 2017
41 READ: War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - August 2018
42 READ: Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - November 2017
43 READ: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte - October 2019
44 READ: The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffeneger - January 2016
45 READ:Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Jack Finney - November 2019
46 READ:The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K le Guin - November 2019
47 The Hyperion Series - Dan Simmons - December 2019
48 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A Heinlein - December 2019
49 READ: Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein - September 2018
50 READ: Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card - June 2014
51 READ: The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway - May 2017
52 Descartes Bones - Russell Shorto - January 2020
53 READ: The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - May 2014
53 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers - January 2020
55 A Separate Peace - John Knowles
56 READ: The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss - December 2017
57 READ: Looking for Alaska - John Green - January 2016
58 READ: 12 Years A Slave - Solomon Northup - October 2016
59 Dove - Robin Lee Graham
60 READ: Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates - March 2014
61 READ: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark - February 2016
62 READ: Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald - March 2018
63 The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
64 A Testament of Youth - Vera Britain
65 Burr - Gore Vidal
66 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
67 READ: Pet Cematary - Stephen King - October 2018
68 READ: Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton - April 2018
69 READ: American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis - June 2017
70 Human Comedy - William Saroyan
71 Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
72 The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
73 The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
74 The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow - Rita Leganski
75 READ: My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult - May 2018
76 READ: Emma - Jane Austin - November 2014
77 Of Human Bondage - W Somerset Maugham
78 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
79 The Forgotten Seamstress - Liz Trenow
80 Freedom from the Known - J Krishnamurti
81 Foam of the Daze - Boris Vian
82 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
83 The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
84 READ: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson - July 2017
85 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig
86 Moon and Sixpence - W Somerset Maugham
87 READ: Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides - June 2015
88 Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
89 READ: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind - August 2014
90 READ: How Green was My Valley - Richard LLewellyn - June 2018
91 READ: Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe - August 2017
92 The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
93 Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
94 The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
95 The Faiths of the Founding Fathers - David L Holmes
96 The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
97 The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
98 Dhalgren - Samuel R Delany
99 The Marid Audran Sequence - George Alec Effinger
100 When The Sacred Gin Mill Closes - Lawrence Block

Great plan Christine

That sounds like a really good plan, I like it.

I also like that you've made this list of the ones that have already been read by the group, very helpful, I can now go back and read the ones that the group have already finished. Thanks

From January 2019 we will follow the 100 list the same as we do with the 50 list. I will start from the beginning but I will not include any books we have already read.

January group read will be 'Mossflower' by Brian Jaques