Tuesday, May 21, 2013

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die



I decided to start keeping track of the books I've read from the list of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I won't be actively pursuing reading from this list, but I've already read a few of them. I also have a ton of them on my to-read list and own many of them. Many of the books from the 1800s portion and below are free thanks to Project Gutenberg and are available as free Kindle downloads from Amazon.

20/1,000

1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
5. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
6. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
9. Tess of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
10. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
11. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
12. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
13. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
14. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
15. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
16. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
18. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
19. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
20. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson


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