50 books to read before you die discussion

✓Read 1.The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
✓Read 2.1984 by George Orwell
✓Read 3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
✓Read 4. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
✓Read 5. To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
✓Read 6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
✓Read 7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
✓Read 8. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
✓Read 9. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
✓Read 10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
11. A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
✓Read 12. The great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
✓Read 13. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
14. The Bell Jar by Sylvie Plath
15. Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
✓Read 16. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
✓Read 17. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
✓Read 18. The Bible by Various
✓Read 19. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
✓Read 20. Ulysses by James Joyce
21. The quiet American by Graham Greene
22. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulke
23. Money by Martin Amis
✓Read 24. Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
✓Read 25. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
26. The Wind in the Willows by Kennet h Grahame
27. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
✓Read 28. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
✓Read 29. Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
30. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
31. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
32. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
33. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
34. The way we live now by Antony Trollope
✓Read 35. The Outsider by Albert Camus
✓Read 36. The colour Purple by Alice Walker
37. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
✓Read 38. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
✓Read 39. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
40. Man without Woman by Ernest Hemingway
✓Read 41. Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
✓Read 42. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
✓Read 43. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
✓Read 44. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
✓Read 45. One flew over the Cockoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
46. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
✓Read 47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
✓Read 48. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
✓Read 49. The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
50. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

33 outta 50. .just need to finish up.

Great effort! I'm about half way through to 50. I'd like to finish the list by end of 2013, but I keep getting sidetracked to read other cool stuff

such a good effort! i want to try to read at least 30 of these by the end of 2013... so many other amazing things to read as well though! its tough.

Have only read 6. Need to catch up, very behind.

Nice one Mandee!

I've only read 18. :( I'm working on it though- I'm going to start Catch-22 after I finish my current read.

i have 11 need to catch up, i hope i finish it by the end of 2013 :)

37 out of 50 so far. I doubt if I will ever get to 50, since I see the Harry Potter series in this list. I once tried to read it, but I just couldn't get on. But I see some other really interesting titles here I'd love to add to my to-read list!

Renate, I understand your reluctance of Harry Potter, I bit the bullet and did the first 4 - then surfaced for oxygen! mighht take a while for me to complete the others but I decided a snotty kid wizard ain gonna beat me!

Mandy wrote: " mighht take a while for me to complete the others but I decided a snotty kid wizard ain gonna beat me!"

Haha, I like that attitude! Perhaps it'll help. (Though at the time I tried reading it, even doing the laundry or studying for exams seemed more interesting to me than reading Harry Potter.)