50 books to read before you die discussion

The books that we chose in 2014. The books that we have read so far have been crossed off.

1. We Need to Talk About Kevin- Lionel Shriver- March 2015
2. A Tree Grows in Brookklyn by Betty Smith
3. Mossflower- Brian Jacques
4. The New Jim Crowe Laws by Michelle Alexander
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
6. Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
7. Middlemarch- George Elliot
8. The Discworld Series- Terry Pratchett
9. The Collected Works- ee cummings
10. The Thirteenth Tale- Dianne Setterfield
11. The Book Thief
12. I am the Messenger- Markus Zusak
13. A Bell for Adano- John Hersey
14. East of Eden- John Steinbeck
15. Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
16. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
17. The Art of Racing in the Rain- Garth Stein
18. Tess of the D'urbavilles- Thomas Hardy
19. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared- Jonas Jonasson
20. Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
21. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
22. The Shining- Steven King
23. The Shack-W. Young.
24. The Last Man- Mary Shelley
25. Foundation Trilogy- Isaac Asimov
26. My First White Friend- Patricia Raybon
27. Persuasion- Jane Austen
28. the fault in our stars
29. Very Bad Men- Harry Dolan
30. Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
31. Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
32. Watership Down- Richard Adams
33. Night - Elie Wiesel
34. Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
35. The Stand - Stephen King
36. A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
37. Great Expectations- Charles Dickens -February 2015
38. Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk
39. The Old Man and the Sea
40. For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway
41. War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
42. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
43. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall- Anne Bronte
44. The Time Traveler's Wife- Audrey Niffeneger
45. Invasion of the Body Snatchers- Jack Finley
46. The Left Hand of Darkness- Ursula K. Le Guin
47. The Hyperion Series- Dan Simmons
48. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress- Robert A. Heinlein
49. Stranger in a Strange Land- Robert A. Heinlein
50. Ender's Game
51. The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
52. Descartes Bones - Russell Shorto
53. The Kite Runner
54. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter- Carson McCullers
55. A Separate Peace- John Knowles
56. The Name of the Wind- Patrick Rothfuss
=57. Looking for Alaska-John Green
58. 12 Years A Slave-Solomon Northup
59. Dove by Robin Lee Graham
60. Revolutionary Road
61. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie- Muriel Spark
62. Tender is the Night- F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. The Power of One- Bryce Courtney
64. A Testament of Youth- Vera Britain
65. Burr- Gorr Vidal
66. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down- Anne Fadiman
67. Pet Cemetary- Stephen King
68. Jurassic Park- Michael Crichton
69. American Psycho- Brett Easton Ellis
70. The 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. My Sister's Keeper- Jodi Picoult
76. Emma- Jane Austen
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. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
85. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- Pirsig
86. Moon and Sixpence- W Somerset Maugham
87. Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides
88. Johnny got his gun - Dalton Trumbo
89. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
90. How Green was My Valley- Richard Llewellyn
91. Uncle Tom's Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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

February nominations open until 15 January

I nominate - No 25. Foundation Trilogy- Isaac Asimov

How green was my valley

The Corrections. Highly regarded, contemporary, and a book I feel I "ought to" read.

59. Dove by Robin Lee Graham

Hard to pick one. There are so many good ones on our list that I've already read.

35- the stand
have been meaning to read this for a while

Polls are up
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Nominations for March are open until 11 February

If nominations are still open I nominate We Need to Talk About Kevin

It's the only nomination Shermaya, so I'm not going to run a poll.

Fair enough

Uhoh, think I'm unclear. We Need to Talk About Kevin is a group read for next month.

Lisa wrote: "Uhoh, think I'm unclear. We Need to Talk About Kevin is a group read for next month."

Hahaha ok

Nominations for April are open until 10 March

I nominate Dove by Robin Lee Graham again

I nominate The Shining

I nominate Night

I nominate 21. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

I second The Alchemist

I nominate House of Leaves- Mark Z. Danielewski

Laura wrote: "I nominate House of Leaves- Mark Z. Danielewski"

Sorry Laura, not on the list.
But I think the group Reading the Chunksters is reading it

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...
Polls are up until 26 March

I nominated paper towns

I nominated looking for alaska

Fadwa wrote: "I nominated paper towns"

Hi Fadwa, unfortunately I did not receive these nominations before the polls went up. I will include them next month.

Nominations are open from 9 April to 17 April.
Please nominate from the above list

35 - The Stand - Stephen King.

Might as well start at the beginning, that is, the first one I haven't read yet, #3, Mossflower

The stand

How Green Was My Valley

I just taught A Thousand Splendid Suns, so I nominate that one.

Nominations are open for June from 1- 8 May.

Hm. I guess I'll throw up Middlesex since I have it on my planned list this year.

Erin, as the only nomination, it wins.

Yay!

...I guess. No other nominations, eek. Hope it's a good one.

Apologies for the standstill. I haven't been available. I think its too late for a December book, but these are nominations for January.
Nominations are open until 26 December.

so many cool books ........I nominate
84. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
57. Looking for Alaska-John Green
44. The Time Traveler's Wife- Audrey Niffeneger
38. Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk

Poll is up
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Fadwa wrote: "so many cool books ........I nominate
84. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
57. Looking for Alaska-John Green
44. The Time Traveler's Wife- Audrey Niffeneger
38. Fight Club- Chuck Pa..."
Tempted to name the poll 'Fadwa's poll'...

Nominations are open until 11 January. Please do not nominate books that have been read already.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

I second Buck's nomination because I already have it and it will help with my read all the books I currently have sitting around goal. :0)

It's on my 'to read' list too.

There was only one nomination from this list- our group read will be The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Nominations are open for June and July. Please nominate 2 books from our list. Nominations close 28 May.

My nominations:
Fight Club
The Moon and Sixpence

Water ship Down and Middlemarch