Before We Die.

 …and another List from the Internet. This is one made up of 100 books we’re all are supposed to read before we die. There’s a lot of classics in there as you might expect but, at least as far as I’m concerned a few strange ones too (World War Z?). As before I’ve highlighted the ones I’ve read in bold and the ones I have in a pile somewhere with italics.

The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien

The Road Less Traveled – Dr. Scott M. Peck

Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

World War Z – Max Brooks

Education of a Wandering Man – Louis L’Amour

Watership Down – Richard Adams

The Iliad – Homer

The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

Paradise Lost – John Milton

Ulysses – James Joyce

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

1984 – George Orwell

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

Shogun – James Clavell

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

The Stand – Stephen King

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D. H. Lawrence

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli

The Art of War – Sun Tzu

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury

Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein

Deliverance – James Dickey

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller

Season of Mists – Neil Gaiman

The Princess Bride – William Goldman

Eaters of the Dead – Michael Crichton

The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett

Night – Eli Wiesel

Exodus – Leon Uris

Contact – Carl Sagan

You Can’t Go Home Again – Thomas Wolfe

On the Road – Jack Kerouac

Blubber – Judy Blume

Foundation – Isaac Asimov

The Stranger – Albert Camus

The Trial – Franz Kafka

Rabbit, Run – John Updike

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis

The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler

Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner

Grendel – John Gardner

Hour of the Dragon – Robert E. Howard

The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer

Cop Hater – Ed McBain

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain

McTeague – Frank Norris

A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin

Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk

Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake

Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

The Divine Comedy – Dante

Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Magus – John Fowles

Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

Middlemarch – George Eliot

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Complete Shakespeare – William Shakespeare

Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin

I Am Legend – Richard Matheson

The Compete Plays of Aristophanes – Aristophanes

The Science of God – Gerald L. Schroeder

The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

No Exit – Jean-Paul Sartre

Alexander of Macedon – Harold Lamb

Battle Royale – Koushun Takami

We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson

Band of Brothers – Stephen Ambrose

Ancient Inventions – Peter James and Nick Thorpe

The Telltale Heart and Other Writings – Edgar Allan Poe

The Call of the Wild – Jack London

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Frank Baum

The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer

Which I guess makes me pretty poorly read....... [grin] But I am working on it - slowly.