I've always been a firm believer of books, so it shouldn't come off as surprise that I love reading them as much as - or perhaps more than - I like writing.
I was rummaging through the books in my makeshift library under my bed (my bed's one of those bunkbed types but with a shelf and a study table underneath instead of another bed. What can I do, I had to save space. My rooms minuscule.) and I realized I haven't read about seven of the books there and yet I have a lot more titles in my phone just waiting to be bought.
Anyway, I found (online!) this list of books everyone should have at least skimmed through before they die.
- 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 F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia 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 Faulks
- 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 Carroll
- 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 Anthony Trollope
- The Outsider by Albert Camus
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’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
(And no, movies don't count.)
So far, I've read 11, and I have 4 out of the pending 7 made it into this list.
What's
your book bucketlist? And how many have you read?