While I know I'll die some day, I'd rather finish these 50 and another 100 or so before I make my way into a teak wood coffin. So, here's the lot I need to finish to progress to another life in which I read yet another 50! :-P
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien 1984 by George Orwell The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte A Passage to India by E. M. Forster The Lord of the Flies by William Golding Hamlet by William Shakespeare A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Ulysses by James Joyce The Quiet American by Graham Greene Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks Money by Martin Amis Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon On the Road by Jack Kerouac Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Way We Live Now by Antony Trollope The Outsider by Albert Camus The Color Purple by Alice Walker Life of Pi by Yann Martel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells Man without Women by Ernest Hemingway Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe One flew over the Cuckoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey Catch 22 by Joseph Heller The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
Of the ones, I have read, Pride and Prejudice I often return to and The Great Gatsby, to me, is not a book - it's jazz, pure true-blue jazz, wafting out some soulful melancholic melodies that stay with you even after you've seen the last page of that tale.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Money by Martin Amis
Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Way We Live Now by Antony Trollope
The Outsider by Albert Camus
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Man without Women by Ernest Hemingway
Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
One flew over the Cuckoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
Of the ones, I have read, Pride and Prejudice I often return to and The Great Gatsby, to me, is not a book - it's jazz, pure true-blue jazz, wafting out some soulful melancholic melodies that stay with you even after you've seen the last page of that tale.