50 books to read before you die discussion

23/50

1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
2 1984 by George Orwell – read in school
3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – July 2009
4 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – read in school
6 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte – Oct 2009
7 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte – Nov 2009
8 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
9 The Lord of the Flies by William Golding – read in school, reread Sept 2014
10 Hamlet by William Shakespeare – read in school
11 A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
12 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – read in school
13 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger – read in school
14 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
15 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley – read in school
16 The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
17 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Sept 2014
18 The Bible by Various
19 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
20 Ulysses by James Joyce - March 2015
21 The Quiet American by Graham Greene
22 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
23 Money by Martin Amis
24 Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling – finished series Nov 2007
25 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
26 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - ~ 2008
27 His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
28 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy – May 2013
29 Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
30 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
31 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon – June 2008
32 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
33 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
34 The Way We Live Now by Antony Trollope
35 The Outsider by Albert Camus
36 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
37 Life of Pi by Yann Martel - ~ 2003
38 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley – read in school
39 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
40 Man without Women by Ernest Hemingway
41 Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
42 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – read in school
43 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain – read in school
44 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
45 One flew over the Cuckoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
46 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
47 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
48 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
49 The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
50 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Here is my list. I have read 18 so far - many from when I was in school so some of those I would like to reread (1984 and To Kill a Mockingbird, for example). I will update the above list as I make progress. Right now I am reading other books not on the list, so it may be awhile.

I'm not reading on this list right now either. Am in another list group and have read Memoirs of a Geisha and now on another from that list that isn't on this one. I love TKAM and will reread every few years. There are some others, too, that I'd like to reread ... like Little Women, 1984, the HP series.

Martha wrote: "I'm not reading on this list right now either. Am in another list group and have read Memoirs of a Geisha and now on another from that list that isn't on this one. I love TKAM and will reread every..."

I've never been one to reread books since there are so many out there for me to read for the first time. But some of these classics I read 25 years ago, so I think they deserve a reread. :)

I'm also crossing books off the "1001 Books to Read Before You Die", so I'm in the middle of 3 of those books right now.

I know what you mean. Many I read in high school and I'm 65 now so that was many, many years ago. Am rereading the Agatha Christie books and usually don't remember the guilty party. Some were so outstanding though that I've never forgotten.

I just started Don Quixote. It's going to take me awhile since I'm adhering to a group reading schedule, but already I'm finding it quite an enjoyable read!

I'm enjoying DQ too, it's funny.

Just finished up Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

I started off really enjoying Don Quixote, and was quite surprised by the humor and especially the potty humor - I totally was not expecting that for something written in the very early 1600s. But towards the last 200 pages or so, I was ready for the adventures to be done, not because I wasn't still enjoying them but there seemed to be a lot of the same.

I gave it 4 stars, and would definitely go back and reread at least parts of it. Also, I love Sancho Panza, he's probably one of my favorite characters of all time.

Well done for finishing, I kinda fell off the discussion.

Lisa wrote: "Well done for finishing, I kinda fell off the discussion."

Thanks! I'm usually a stickler for finishing books. Although I could have used a longer break in between Part I and II, but wanted to stick to the group schedule. I'm glad I'm done, though, even if it was a fun read.

I just finished reading Ulysses by James Joyce. It's good to have that one crossed off. I gave it 3 stars, here's my review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Reviving my list progress, the last time I marked a book off was over 3 years ago. Yikes! Since then I've read 3 more books so I now stand at having read 23 of the 50. Almost halfway. The books I just marked off are -

The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll