Please read these before you die...
Transcript of Please read these before you die...
Please read these before you die (hurry, you may die tomorrow)
[No particular order]
1. Bible
2. Koran
3. Torah
4. Beowulf
5. Davy Crockett
6. The Epit of Gilgamesh
7. Wild Bill Hickock
8. Kit Carson - John Abbott
9. The King of the Mountains - Edmond About
10. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
11. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
12. Watership Down - Richard Adams
13. Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus
14. A Death in the Family - James Agee
15. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
16. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
17. Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Anderson
18. Mahabharata - Anonymous
19. Njal's Saga - Anonymous
20. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
21. Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
22. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel
23. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
24. Emma - Jane Austen*
25. Persuasion - Jane Austen
26. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen*
27. Daniel Boone - John Bakeless
28. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
29. Trilogy: Molly, Malone Dies, The Unamable - Samuel Beckett
30. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
31. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
32. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Berniers
33. The Last Spike - Pierre Berton
34. Carmen - George Bizet
35. Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
36. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
37. Decameron - Giovanni Boccacio
38. Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
39. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
40. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte*
41. Fang and Claw - Frank Buck
42. On Jungle Trails - Frank Buck
43. Bring 'em Back Alive - Frank Buck and Edward Anthony
44. Last Days of Pompeii - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
45. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan*
46. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
47. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
48. Marco Polo - Donn Byrne
49. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
50. Caesar's Conquests - Julius Caesar
51. The Stranger - Albert Camus
52. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll*
53. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
54. Poems of Paul Celan - Paul Celan
55. Journey to the End of Night - Louis-Ferdinana D. Celine
56. The Adventures of Cellini - Benvenuto Cellini
57. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes*
58. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer*
59. Selected Stories of Anton Chekov - Anton Pavlovich Chekov
60. The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekov
61. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
62. The Crises - Winston Churchill
63. The Oxbow Incident - Walter Van Tillburn Clark
64. Buffalo Bill - William F Cody
65. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
66. Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
67. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
68. The Moonstone - William Wilkie Collins
69. The Woman in White - William Wilkie Collins
70. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad*
71. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
72. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
73. Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimoore Cooper*
74. The Deerslayer - James Fenimoore Cooper
75. The Pathfiner - James Fenimoore Cooper*
76. The Pilot - James Fenimoore Cooper
77. The Pioneers - James Fenimoore Cooper
78. The Red Rover - James Fenimoore Cooper
79. The Spy - James Fenimoore Cooper
80. The Prairie - James Fenimoore Cooper
81. The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane*
82. Charlie and the Chocolate Facotory - Roald Dahl*
83. Matilda - Roald Dahl*
84. The BFG - Roald Dahl
85. The Twits - Roald Dahl
86. Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana Jr.
87. Inferno - Dante
88. The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
89. Soldiers of Fortune - Richard Harding David
90. De Balzac, Honore – Old Goriot
91. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe*
92. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (1719)*
93. Conquest of Mexico - Bernal Diez Del Castillo (1632)
94. How We Think - Dewey, John
95. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
96. A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens, Charles (1859)*
97. Bleak House - Charles Dickens*
98. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1850)*
99. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861)*
100. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
101. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master - Denis Diderot
102. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
103. Crime and Punishment - Feodor Dostoyevsky(1866)*
104. The Brothers Karamazov - Feodor Dostoyevsky
105. The Idiot - Feodor Dostoyevsky
106. The Possessed - Feodor Dostoyevsky
107. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
108. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)
109. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle(1902)
110. The Sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
111. The Speckled Band - Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
112. The White Company - Arthur Conan Doyle (1891)
113. Camille - Alexandre Dumas (1852)
114. The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas (1850)
115. The Conspirators - Alexandre Dumas (1843)
116. The Corsican Brothers - Alexandre Dumas (1845)
117. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1844)*
118. The Forty-Five Guardsmen - Alexandre Dumas (1848)
119. The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas (1850)
120. The Queen’s Necklace - (Alexandre Dumas (1849)
121. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (1844)*
122. Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas (1845)
123. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot*
124. Middlemarch - George Eliot*
125. Silas Marner - George Eliot (1861)*
126. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
127. Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson*
128. Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson*
129. Waterloo - Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian
130. Medea - Euripides*
131. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
132. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
133. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
134. Birdsong - Sebastien Faulks
135. Magician - Raymond E. Feist
136. Bridget Jone’s Diary - Helen Fielding*
137. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding*
138. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald*
139. A Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
140. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert*
141. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
142. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
143. The Magus - John Fowles
144. Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin(1817)
145. Arabian Nights - Anthony Galland(1704)
146. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
147. Dead Souls - Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
148. The Cossack Chief - Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (1839)
149. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
150. The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
151. Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
152. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
153. Cleopatra - H Rider Haggard (1889)
154. King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard (1885)
155. Man Without a Country - Edward Everett Hale (1863)
156. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
157. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
158. Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
159. Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy*
160. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Bret Harte (1870)
161. The Outcasts of Poker Falts - Bret Harte (1870)
162. The Dark Frigate - Charles Boardman Hawes (1923)
163. The Mutineers - Charles Boardman Hawes (1920)
164. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
165. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne*
166. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
167. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
168. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
169. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
170. In the Reign of Terror - G A Henty (1890)
171. The Lion of the North - G A Henty (1890)
172. Won by the Sword - G A Henty (1899)
173. Dune - Frank Herbert*
174. The Iliad - Homer (962 BCE)*
175. The Odyssey - Homer (927 BCE)
176. The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope (1894)
177. The Covered Wagon - Emerson Hough (1922)
178. An American Tragedy - Irving Howe
179. Green Mansions - William Henry Hudson (1904)
180. Ton Brown's School Days - Thomas Hughes (1856)*
181. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
182. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (1831)*
183. The Man Who Laughs - Victor Hugo (1869)
184. Toilers of the Sea - Victor Hugo (1866)
185. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
186. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
187. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
188. Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen*
189. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
190. Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving
191. The Headless Horseman - Washington Irving
192. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
193. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
194. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
195. Ulysses - James Joyce
196. The Castle - Franz Kafka
197. The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka
198. The Trial - Franz Kafka
199. The Recognition of Sakuntala - Kalidasa
200. Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
201. The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
202. Zora the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
203. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
204. The Stand - Stephen King
205. Westward, Ho! - Charles Kingsley (1855)
206. The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
207. Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling (1897)
208. Kim - Rudyard Kipling (1901)
209. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling (1894)*
210. Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence*
211. Independent People - Halldor Kiljan Laxness
212. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
213. Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi - Giacomo Leopardi
214. The Golden Notebook - Doris M Lessing
215. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C S Lewis*
216. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
217. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
218. The Call of the Wild - Jack London (1903)
219. The Sea Wolf - Jack London (1904)
220. White Fang - Jack London (1906)
221. The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
222. Courtship of Miles Standish - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1858)
223. Evangeline - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
224. The Prince - Machiavelli*
225. Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
226. Children of Gebelawi - Naguib Mahfous
227. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
228. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
229. Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
230. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
231. Mr Midshipman Easy - Captain Frederick Marryat (1836)
232. The Little Savage - Captain Frederick Marryat (1848)
233. Dap Kapital - Karl Marx
234. The Flayed Hand - Guy de Maupassant
235. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
236. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough
237. Barteby the Scrivener - Herman Melville
238. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851)*
239. Typee - Herman Melville (1846)
240. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
241. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
242. Winnie the Pooh - A A Milne
243. Paradise Lost - John Milton
244. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
245. Tartuffe - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
246. Essays - Michel De Montaigne
247. Anne of Green Gables - L M Montgomery
248. History - Elsa Morante
249. Beloved - Toni Morrison
250. King of the Khyber Rifles - Talbot Mundy (1916)
251. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
252. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
253. Men Against the Sea - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1933)
254. Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1932)
255. Pitcairn's Island - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1939)
256. The Hurricane - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1936)
257. The Octopus - Frank Norris
258. A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
259. Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill
260. 1984 - George Orwell
261. Animal Farm - George Orwell
262. Under Two Flags - Ouida (1868)
263. Metamorphoses - Ovid
264. The Conspiracy of the Pontiac - Francis Parkman (1851)
265. The Oregon Trail - Franic Parkman (1849)
266. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak*
267. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
268. The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
269. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
270. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
271. The Republic - Plato
272. The Complete Tales - Edgar Allen Poe*
273. Travels of Marco Polo - Marco Polo
274. The Scottish Chiefs - Jane Porter (1809)
275. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
276. Mort - Terry Pratchett
277. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
278. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
279. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
280. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
281. Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
282. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman*
283. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
284. Knights of the Round Table - Howard Pyle (1903)
285. Men of Iron - Howard Pyle (1891)
286. Robin Hood - Howard Pyle (1883)
287. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
288. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
289. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Rasome
290. The Cloister and the Hearth - Charles Reade (1861)
291. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (1928)
292. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
293. Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand (1897)
294. Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
295. The Social Contract - Jean Jacques Rousseau
296. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J K Rowling*
297. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J K Rowling*
298. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J K Rowling*
299. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J K Rowling
300. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J K Rowling*
301. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J K Rowling
302. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
303. Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
304. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
305. Holes - Louis Sachar
306. A Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
307. The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
308. Blindness - Jose Saramago
309. Lafitte the Pirate - Lyle Saxon (1930)
310. Joan of Arc - Frederick Schiller (1801)
311. William Tell - Frederick Schiller (1804)
312. The World as Will and Idea - Arthur Schopenhauer
313. Castle Dangerous - Walter Scott (1831)
314. Ivanhoe - Walter Scott (1820)*
315. Rob Roy - Walter Scott (1818)
316. The Lady of the Lake - Walter Scott (1810)
317. The Talisman - Walter Scott (1825)
318. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
319. Katherine - Anya Seton
320. Lives of the Hunted - Ernest Thompson Seton (1902)
321. Wild Animals I have known - Ernest Thompson Seton (1898)
322. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (1860)
323. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare (1600)
324. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (1603)
325. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare (1607)*
326. King Lear - William Shakespeare*
327. Macbeth - William Shakespeare (1606)
328. Othello - William Shakespeare
329. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (1597)
330. The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
331. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
332. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
333. The Bostan of Saadi - Sheikh Musliju-d-Din Sa'adi of Shiraz
334. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818)
335. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
336. A Town like Alice - Nevil Shute
337. With Fire and Sword - Henry Sienkiewicz (1890)
338. Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko
339. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
340. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
341. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitseyn
342. Antigone - Sophocles
343. Oedipus the King - Sophocles
344. The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler
345. How I Found Livingstone - Henry M Stanley (1872)
346. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
347. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck*
348. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
349. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
350. David Balfour - Robert Louis Stevenson (1893)
351. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
352. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)*
353. The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson (1888)
354. The Master of Ballantree - Robert Louis Stevenson (1889)
355. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
356. The Bottle Imp - Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)
357. The Beach at Falesa - Robert Louis Stevenson (1892)
358. Dracula - Bram Stoker*
359. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
360. Mysteries of Pari - Eugene Sue (1842)
361. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
362. Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo
363. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathon Swift
364. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
365. Idyls of the King - Alfred Tennyson
366. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray*
367. Abramham Lincoln - Benjamin Thomas (1952)
368. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
369. The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
370. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - J R R Tolkien*
371. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - J R R Tolkien*
372. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - J R R Tolkien*
373. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy*
374. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy
375. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
376. The Raged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
377. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
378. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain (1889)
379. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (1884)*
380. Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain (1894)
381. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (1876)*
382. The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain (1882)
383. Ramayana - Davi Vanamali
384. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (1870)*
385. A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne (1864)
386. Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne (1873)*
387. From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne (1870)
388. Master of the World - Jules Verne (1904)
389. Michael Strogoff - Jules Verne (1876)
390. Mysterious Island - Jules Verne (1874)
391. Off on a Comet - Jules Verne (1874)
392. Robur the Conqueror - Jules Verne (1886)
393. Tigers and Traitors - Jules Verne (1880)
394. The Aeneid - Virgil*
395. Candide - Voltaire
396. Faust - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1808/1832)
397. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
398. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
399. Ben Hur - Lew Wallace (1880)
400. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
401. The First Men in the Moon - H G Wells (1901)
402. The Food of the Gods - H G Wells (1904)
403. The Invisible Man - H G Wells (1897)
404. The Time Machine - H G Wells (1895)
405. War of the Worlds - H G Wells (1898)
406. Collected Stories - Eudora Welty
407. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
408. The Mathnawi - E H Whinfield
409. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
410. The Importance of Being Earnet - Oscar Wilde
411. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde*
412. Our Town - Thorton Wilder
413. The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
414. Girls in Love - Jacqueline Wilson
415. The Story of Tracy Baker - Jacqueline Wilson
416. Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
417. Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
418. The Virginian - Owen Wister (1902)
419. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
420. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf*
421. Native Son - Richard Wright
422. Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss (1813)
423. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Xun Lu
424. The Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
425. The Downfall - Emile Zola (1892)