Ah, via Kottke, comes the kind of list I love: 1001 Books (fiction) That You Must Read Before Your Die. Kottke’s read 30 of them, here’s the one’s from the list I’ve read:
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
I’ve read 27. Kinda pathetic, actually, but I’ve got the same excuse as Kottke in that I most read non-fiction. I should mix in more fiction now that I think about it, maybe start a 2 for 1 system.
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