So, how many books did you read from the 1001 books to read before you die?

there you go. winter's tale by mark helprin should be on the list, fury by salman rushdie should not. as far as i know it's not necessary to read any of them before you die, although pastoralia is pretty funny and might lighten the mood a little when on yr death bed.

but, was it worth it?

It's amazing how many books I'd forgotten having read until I saw them on the list

Some of them were enjoyable, yeah. And in all cases I'm glad to be able to say that I've read [X].

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=418598&in_page_id=1879

Excerpt from Atonement, by Ian McEwan...

"In the way of medical treatments, she had already dabbed gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on a cut, and painted lead lotion on a bruise. But mostly she was a maid."

Excerpt from No Time For Romance by Lucilla Andrews...

"Our 'nursing' seldom involved more than dabbing gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on cuts and scratches, lead lotion on bruises and sprains."

On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Underworld – Don DeLillo
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Possession – A.S. Byatt
Libra – Don DeLillo
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
White Noise – Don DeLillo
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Rabbit Redux – John Updike
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
The End of the Road – John Barth
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Howards End – E.M. Forster
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And most of this shit in high school. Where's the Bible in here? Or any classical works?

though apparently there are no nonfiction books to read before you die

Hundred years is there.

"but nothing at all from Celine" - also is there

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Pastoralia – George Saunders
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Another World – Pat Barker
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Underworld – Don DeLillo
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
Arcadia – Jim Crace
Regeneration – Pat Barker
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Possession – A.S. Byatt
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
Libra – Don DeLillo
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
Contact – Carl Sagan
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Neuromancer – William Gibson
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The World According to Garp – John Irving
The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
The Shining – Stephen King
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Story of O – Pauline Réage
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
The Third Man – Graham Greene
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
The Plague – Albert Camus
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
Party Going – Henry Green
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Ulysses – James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Howards End – E.M. Forster
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
The Golden Bowl – Henry James
The Ambassadors – Henry James
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
What Maisie Knew – Henry James
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
She – H. Rider Haggard
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Justine – Marquis de Sade
Candide – Voltaire
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

so there is some nonfiction. in a way that makes it worse.

...but i still don't like that list!

ps: i think a lot of people consider 'acid test' "lit" as it's a "non-fiction novel"? whateverthefuck.

right, but if they're going to go down that road, they left out a hell of a lot of literary not-strictly-fiction. but what do i know, i don't care much about 'literary'.

better than i thought i'd do. i've read half of ulysses twice, thus getting full points.

44 read.

I shouldn't, as my grammar is crap, but I did as well.

The list is completely ridiculous: why did he include so many books by the same author? I actually went ahead and printed it out just for fun. My friend and I went go over the list one night.

Major ommissions The Bible, The Koran, Origin of the Species, Double Helix, Mrs Beeton's Cookbook. List is too in thrall to the western literary canon

Another long list post:

13. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks
156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
313. Dispatches – Michael Herr
339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
701. The Trial – Franz Kafka
780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
851. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

Books on that list I have started but not finished:

67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
289. Rites of Passage – William Golding
291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
963. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

4 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

A useful reminder, 23 April 2006
Reviewer: D. Morton "JayCee" (Wales) - See all my reviews

A useful reminder of titles you meant to read once and might now get around to.
The text is marred by the intrusion of the political views of many of the reviewers, each trying to outdo the other in the tired cliches of the loony left.
But it's beautifully illustrated and produced.

Fixed.

A rough count says I've read ~100 of them.

There are lots there that I think I should have read by now but somehow never got round to, and one or two I started reading and abandoned because they were shit (I'm looking at you Bram Stoker!) and the odd one or two I'm amazed I got through such as Gormenghast.

I've hardly scratched the surface of the 2000s list.

I'd much prefer to read one person's idea of what they find important though rather than a bland consensus. e.g t.s Chuck Eddy's stairway to hell vs Times all time top 100

(#1: that five of her novels are required reading???)

I'm surprised that my 1900s reading was greater than my 1800s, but I suppose the list was slanted towards more modern.

The 1700 and previous lists were a joke, though. No Shakespeare is clearly trying to make a point, but no Mallory, no Chaucer? No Cicero or Suetonius? (did they even have Plato? Can't remember.)

My personal "why on earth did you omit this?" was I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith.

That Shakespeare didn't write books?

x-post there are short stories on the list. A play is as much a book as a short story.

xpost. And Music. And Movies.

http://www.amazon.com/1001-Books-Must-Read-Before/dp/0789313707

xp

"you are about to die--first you must listen to the hives"

I'M DYING? Quick, put Chocolate Starfish & the Hot Dog Flavored Water on!

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!

291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

Double barf with yuk on top. I hated that book. Funny? You've got to be (ahum) joking.

*have not so much read as tried to read in orig french with not a great deal of success :(
**does anyone outside of classics departments really READ these? i know most of the stories, and i studied ovid in school, but i haven't read them cover to cover

o Fitzgerald, Ella – Sings the Gershwin Song Book
o Davis, Miles – Kind of Blue
o Velvet Underground - & Nico
o Franklin, Aretha – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
o Drake, Nick – Five Leaves Left
o Springfield, Dusty – Dusty in Memphis
o King, Carole – Tapestry
o Cohen, Leonard – Songs of Love & Hate
o Mitchell, Joni – Blue
o Otis, Shuggie – Inspiration Information
o Mitchell, Joni – Court & Spark
o Mitchell, Joni – Hissing of Summer Lawns
o Smith, Patti – Horses
o Mitchell, Joni – Hejira
o Blondie – Parallel Lines
o Clash – London Calling
o Gang of Four – Entertainment!
o Waits, Tom – Heartattack & Vine
o X – Wild Gift
o Human League – Dare
o Bush, Kate – Dreaming, the
o Jackson, Michael – Thriller
o Waits, Tom – Swordfishtrombones
o Sade – Diamond Life
o Prince – Purple Rain
o Bush, Kate – Hounds of Love
o Waits, Tom – Rain Dogs
o Prince – Sign ‘O’ the Times
o Cohen, Leonard – I’m Your Man
o New Order – Technique
o Madonna – Like a Prayer
o Cherry, Neneh – Raw Like Sushi
o Bush, Kate – Sensual World
o Pixies – Doolittle
o Soul II Soul – Club Classics: Vol One
o Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
o KLF – White Room
o Massive Attack – Blue Lines
o lang, k.d. – Ingénue
o Dr Dre – Chronic, the
o REM – Automatic for the People
o Sonic Youth – Dirty
o Amos, Tori – Little Earthquakes
o Harvey, P.J. – Dry
o Phair, Liz – Exile in Guyville
o Mann, Aimee – Whatever
o Harvey, P.J. – Rid of Me
o Crow, Sheryl – Tuesday Night Music Club
o Björk – Debut
o Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
o Portishead – Dummy
o Nas – Illmatic
o TLC – CrazySexyCool
o Hole – Live Through This
o Massive Attack – Protection
o Buckley, Jeff – Grace
o Orbital – Snivilisation
o Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation
o Garbage – Garbage (1st Album)
o Tricky – Maxinquaye
o Pulp – Different Class
o Leftfield – Leftism
o Goldie – Timeless
o Morissette, Alanis – Jagged Little Pill
o Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
o DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
o Apple, Fiona – Tidal
o Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads
o Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants
o Cardigans – First Band on the Moon
o Quaye, Finley – Maverick a Strike
o Elliott, Missy Misdemeanor – Supa Dupa Fly
o Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
o Prodigy – Fat of the Land
o Cave, Nick & the Bad Seeds – Boatman’s Call
o Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
o Williams, Lucinda – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
o Madonna – Ray of Light
o Hill, Lauryn – Miseducation of…
o Hole – Celebrity Skin
o Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
o Air – Moon Safari
o Eminem – Slim Shady LP
o Spears, Britney – Baby One More Time
o Bonnie Prince Billy – I See a Darkness
o Basement Jaxx – Remedy
o Cole, MJ – Sincere
o Harvey, P.J. – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
o Eminem – Marshall Mathers LP
o Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
o Madonna – Music
o OutKast – Stankonia
o Björk – Vespertine
o Destiny’s Child – Survivor
o Welch, Gillian – Time (The Revelator)
o White Stripes – White Blood Cells
o Ms Dynamite – A Little Deeper
o Elliott, Missy – Under Construction
o Aguilera, Christina – Stripped
o Timberlake, Justin – Justified
o Winehouse, Amy – Frank
o Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner
o Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
o OutKast – Speakerboxxx/Love Below
o 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
o Wainwright, Rufus – Want One
o Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (1st Album)
o Björk – Medúlla
o Mylo – Destroy Rock & Roll
o Arcade Fire – Funeral
o West, kanYe – College Dropout
o Wainwright, Rufus – Want Two
o MIA (UK) – Arular

Double barf with yuk on top. I hated that book. Funny? You've got to be (ahum) joking.

haha nath! That's one of my favorite books! I've read it several times.

Not even looking at this list, as someone mentioned above I can't be bothered reading through a long list of books.

F Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
F The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
• The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
• The Secret History – Donna Tartt
• Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
• A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
• The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
F The Cider House Rules – John Irving
• Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
• Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
• Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
• On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
F The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
F The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
• The World According to Garp – John Irving
• Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
F Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
• Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
• The Godfather – Mario Puzo
F Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
F The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
• The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding
F The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
• Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
• Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
• Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
• The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
F Orlando – Virginia Woolf
• Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
• The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
F Dracula – Bram Stoker
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
• The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
• King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
• Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
• Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
• The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
F Bleak House – Charles Dickens
F Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
F Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
• The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
F The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
F Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
• Persuasion – Jane Austen
• Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
• Fanny Hill – John Cleland
• Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
• Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

i kinda thought it would be fun to see what people had read, but yr right, it's not.

Watchmen made the list, but Dark Knight Returns didn't.

- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Kind of ripped off that Ullillillia website.

-Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
Is this the Old One cyropjwbncn? OR am I going to be disappointed when this book doesn't even COME with the false promise of going insane?

-American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
This sat on the back of my toilet, where I read it in spurts of 2 1/2 years. Dove Bar endorsement WTF.

-Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
I had to read this for a class. The prof. spent 3 weeks talking about Nazi doctors & their evil experiments while I was in the throes of one of my worst depressions ever. Didn't help.

-A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Read in 8th grade, all I remember is: he had a giant dong.

-Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
Has an Owlman, so I'm down.

-Neuromancer – William Gibson
Successfully predicted tricking out cars w/neon lights. Made me feel really fucking badass in junior high.

-Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
I have worked way too many jobs like Paradise Hot Dogs to not relate to this asshole.

-The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The omnibus, or the first books? I had the omnibus out once when missionaries were at my house. One saw it and said, "!!! Hitchhiker's guide! That it the best book EVER! You have to read it. (pause) After you read the Book of Mormon, of course."

-The World According to Garp – John Irving
Dick gets bit off.

-Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
I srsly wonder how many cassette tapes that kid had. I mean, this book is fairly long.

-Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Too many drawings.

-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
She never actually tells you why it sings.

-Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
This is my fave of his famouser books.

-The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Lotta big dicks in this one, too. Read it for English 102!

-In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
I remember this book being both incomprensible and wholly depressing.

-Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
I loaned it to a friend, who said he'd come up with the idea for Ice-9 years ago. :(

-The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The book that convinced me to try & kill myself!

-One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
-A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
-Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
-To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
-Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
This is making me realize I did most of my reading in Jr. high.

-The Once and Future King – T.H. White
FUCK YEAH!!! Also an awesome song by Maddy Prior

-The Floating Opera – John Barth
Was this one about suicide, too? I have his first two novels in one book & I can't remember which is which.

-The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
-Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
-The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
-I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

58 for me, with a few on my shelf that I'm gonna read soon, including three books on tape (Would it be a good idea to listen to them in the car on the way to work, or should I do it when going to sleep?). Must have read at least half a dozen of them at school too. There's a couple I've started and stopped because they were shit, and subsequently never wanted to read anything by that author again. I'm looking at you Zadie Smith.

On the whole though, if you had nothing to do for the rest of your life but read, you'd find more hits than misses in this list, wouldn't you?

As for the albums, I read the last entries first and they were:

o Zutons – Who Killed the Zutons?
o Killers – Hot Fuss
o Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
o MIA (UK) – Arular
o Beck – Guero
o White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan

So fuck that.

Also what's with the order? Is that the way you should read them? Four Jane Austen books in a row?

I looked at the albums list and was about to do my tally until I noticed a) it skews British pretty heavily and b) it contains a Limp Bizkit album.

but those are GREAT books, for realz!!