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Xenocephalus - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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1xenocephalus
Mar 7, 2009, 7:09 pm

Thought I would give this a shot. Here's my start:

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
2. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
3. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
4. Billy Bathgate - E. L. Doctorow
5. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
6. Watchmen - Alan Moore and David Gibbons
7. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. White Noise - Don DeLillo
9. Neuromancer - William Gibson
10.Confederancy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole
11. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
12. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
13. Humbolt's Gift - Saul Bellow
14. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
15. Rabbit Redux - John Updike
16. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
17. 2001: A Space Odessey - Arthur C. Clarke
18. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
19. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
20. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

2xenocephalus
Edited: Mar 8, 2009, 1:46 pm

Continuing:

21. Moby Dick - Herman melville
22. Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
23. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
24. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
25. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
26. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
27. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
28. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
29. Animal Farm - George Orwell
30. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
33. The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
34. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
35. The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
36. On the Road = Jack Kerouac
37. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
38. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
39. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

Is that all?!? Wow. I'd better get busy.

3xenocephalus
Mar 8, 2009, 12:01 pm

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6elephantango
Mar 10, 2009, 4:40 pm

Haha, xenocephalus, I know the feeling! I just counted mine today... only 49! I swear I had at least 500 by now... haha! You're doing well, keep it up!