Nov 052009
I’ve narrowed my choices from the list down to the following 13 books. Of these books, I am currently reading Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and will soon be reading H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Does anyone have any recommendations (using my list of choices below) for the remaining eight. I have 984 days to read them.
The choices:
- At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft (queued up to read)
- Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
- I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- Les Misérables – Victor Hugo (reading now)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
- Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
For reference, I have already read the following books from the list:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
- The Awakening – Kate Chopin
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
- Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
- The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
- The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
- The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
- The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
- Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
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