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50 Books to Read Before I Die- The Comprehensive List

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Everyone has goals in their lifetime.  I'm a reader... or rather, I am a devourer of the written word.  If I can read the language, I will attempt to read it at some point.  This is the most popular list of books to read before you die that I could find.  I'll mark them off as I read them, or if I already have.  Later, I'm going to add my own list.  See what you think.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Bell Jar by Sylvie Plath
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Bible by Various
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulke
Money by Martin Amis
Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Way We Live Now by Antony Trollope
The Outsider by Albert Camus
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Frankenstein by Mary Selley
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Man without Woman by Ernest Hemingway
Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
One Flew Over the Cockoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Books I would add:

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
Watchers by Dean Koontz
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
How We Believe by Michael Shermer
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Last Apprentice Series by Joseph Delaney
The Heroes of Olympus Series by Rick Riordan
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Songs and Ice and Fire Series by George R.R Martin
 The Keys to the Kingdom Series by Garth Nix
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
Poems by Robert Frost
 






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