Trolling through the interweb I found this
delightful gem of an article on ‘I
Have A Degree For This’. Some of the books on this list I’ve already read,
some I’ve heard of and have intended on reading, some are classics and the rest
(most of them) are completely foreign to me. 30 is not that far off so, I guess
I should knuckle down and get on with it.
1. The Illiad and The Odyssey - Homer. A hard pair, had to read them as course work. Greatly fantastical.
2. The Secret History - Donna Tartt.
3. Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson. I have been intending on reading this. Maybe it should be my next read.
4. The Complete Stories - Flannery O’Connor.
5. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare. I’m sooo not a Shakespeare girl.
6. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway.
7. The Road - Cormac McCarthy.
8. Maus - Art Spiegelman.
9. Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card.
10. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
11. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides.
12. Ghost World - Daniel Clowes.
13. On the Road - Jack Kerouac.
14. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston. This is another definite must read for me.
15. Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut.
16. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov. Yes, Please and Thank you very much!
17. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien.
18. 1984 - George Orwell. I absolutely have to read this book
19. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger.
20. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald. A personal favourite.
21. Beloved - Toni Morrison. Beautifully written, a beautifully haunting story.
22. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace.
23. Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
24. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes.
25. The Trial - Franz Kafka. Anything Kafka!
26. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf. I love Virginia! I however haven’t read this particular book
27. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury.
28. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison.
29. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee. Loved it!
30. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson.
I suppose as time goes, many adjustments will be made to this list. I think Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces (Obviously) should be added.
How many have you read?
