One of my 30 Things To Do Before I Turn 30 is to have read the whole list of 50 books on Waterstones 50 Books to Read Before You Die. I actually there might be several lists that Waterstones has done, but I going with this listhcallenges.com list. Luckily, some of these books I read in high school and some I’ve read in recent years. I have until my 30th birthday to read the rest.
Any reviews I’ve written and posted on this blog will have its title linked. For those I read before the start of this blog will just be crossed out.
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R Tolkien
1984, George Orwell- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
- A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
The Lord of the Flies, William GoldingHamlet, William Shakespeare- A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye, J.D. SalingerThe Bell Jar, Sylvia PlathBrave New World, Aldous Huxley- The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
- Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
The Bible, VariousCanterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer- Ulysses, James Joyce
- The Quiet American, Graham Greene
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Money, Martin Amis
Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling- Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad- The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
- The Outsider (or The Stranger), Albert Camus
- The Colour Purple, Alice Walker
- Life of Pi, Yann Martel
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
- Men without Women, Ernest Hemingway
- Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain- Robinson Crusoë, Daniel Defoe
- One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden- The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde