I'll have to parse through this list of 1,001 books to read before you're dead to see how many I've read. Problem with lists like this -- as much as I love them -- is that even if I spend the next 10 years catching up on great literature from the last two centuries, there'll still be more new books added to the list.
Ah, well. No way to finish them all, but at least it'll provide good material for my Amazon Wish List so I can slowly chip away.
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Update: here's my list. Definitely have some catching up to do, but happy to have more than 50 down:
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Possession - A.S. Byatt
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Watchmen - Alan Moore & David Gibbons
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Le Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
The Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous
Now to figure out my priorities for future books...
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