Thursday, December 6, 2012

30 Things #22 - Read 30 of the greatest novels of all time

This is a goal that I've had for a long time.  I used to read a lot of novels, mostly science fiction and fantasy, but once I hit high school my time went to other things and I haven't been great about making time for reading since.  That said, this has been a goal I've really enjoyed.  Here's what I've read from the Book Riot list of From 0 to Well Read in 100 Books
  1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  2. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
  3. Beowulf
  4. Brave New World - Alduous Huxley
  5. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
  6. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  7. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
  8. The Complete Stories of Edgar Allen Poe
  9. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
  10. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  11. A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
  12. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
  13. The Gospels
  14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  15. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  16. Harry Potter & the Sorceror's Stone - J.K. Rowling
  17. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  18. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
  19. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
  20. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  21. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
  22. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
  23. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  24. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  25. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
There's a lot of 100 best book lists, and at various points in pursuing this goal I've used different ones.  Unfortunately, this means it took me longer to complete this goal than if I'd just picked one list and stuck with it.  Other books I've read that frequently end up on other 100 Best book lists include:
  1. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
  2. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathon Swift
  3. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
  4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
  5. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  6. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  7. The Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
  8. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  9. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  10. The BFG - Roald Dahl
  11. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury  
  12. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  13. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
  14. Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

There's obviously books that I'm more interested in reading than others from the Well-Read list.  I'm putting the ones I really want to pick up here so I can find it easier next time I'm at the library.
  1. 1984 - George Orwell
  2. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  3. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
  4. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
  5. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  6. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  7. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  8. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
  9. The Book Theif - Markus Zusak
  10. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  11. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  12. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay - Michael Chabon
  13. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
  14. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
  15. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  16. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
  17. Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
  18. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  19. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
  20. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  21. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
  22. Candide - Voltaire

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