Ninety-Nine books to read in my
lifetime
Many are classics everyone will recognize, others were recommended based on my
particular interests. Most I feel are critical reading as they are the root of
countless literary allusions or are necessary to help understand the world we
live in.
...And some,
I've just always wanted to read.
The next 99...
=
"Finished it!"
1.
1984 George Orwell
2.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules
Verne
3.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Mark
Twain
4.
Adventures of Robin Hood, The
5.
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Mark
Twain
6.
Animal Farm George Orwell
7.
Arabian Nights, The
8.
Art of War, The Sun Tzu
9.
Autobiography of Malcom X, The Malcolm
X/Alex Haley
10.
Bell Jar, The Sylvia
Plath
11.
Billy Budd Herman Melville
12.
Book of Five Rings Miyamoto
Musashi
13.
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
14.
Brief History of Everything, A Ken
Wilber
15.
Brief History of Time, A Stephen
Hawking
16.
Brothers Karamazov, The Fedor
Dostoyevsky
17.
Call of the Wild, The Jack London
18.
Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
19.
Captain Courageous Ruyard Kipling
20.
Catch 22 Joseph Heller
21.
Catcher in the Rye, The J. D.
Salinger
22.
Conversations With God Neale
Walsch
23.
Count of Monte Cristo, The Alexandre
Dumas
24.
Crime and Punishment Fedor
Dostoyevsky
25.
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel
Kant
26.
Das Kapital Karl Marx
27.
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
28.
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
29.
Death of Ivan Illych, The Leo
Tolstoy
30.
Don Quixote Cervantes
31.
Dracula Bram Stoker
32.
Fall of the House of Usher, The Edgar
Allan Poe
33.
Farenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
34.
Farewell to Arms, A Ernest
Hemingway
35.
Fear of Flying Erica Jong
36.
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest
Hemingway
37.
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
38.
Giants in the Earth Ole E.
Rolvaag
39.
Godel, Escher, Bach Douglas Hofstadter
40.
Grapes of Wrath, The John
Steinbeck
41.
Great Gatsby, The F. Scott
Fitzgerald
42.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
43.
Heart of Darkness Jospeh Conrad
44.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
The Douglas Adams
45.
Holy Bible
46.
House of the Seven Gables, The Nathaniel
Hawthorne
47.
How to Win Friends and Influence
People Dale Carnegie
48.
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
49.
Iliad, The Homer
50.
Inferno, The Alighieri Dante
51.
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
52.
Jungle, The Upton Sinclair
53.
King Arthur and His Knights of the
Round Table
54.
Koran
55.
Last of the Mohicans, The James
Fenimore Cooper
56.
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Washington
Irving
57.
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
58.
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
59.
Lord Jim Jospeh Conrad
60.
Lord of the Flies William Gerald
Golding
61.
Lord of the Rings, The Tolkien
62.
Macbeth William Shakespeare
63.
Man in the Iron Mask, The Alexandre
Dumas
64.
Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler
65.
Metamagical Themas Douglas Hofstadter
66.
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha
Christie
67.
Native Son Richard Wright
68.
Nostromo Jospeh Conrad
69.
Odyssey, The Homer
70.
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
71.
Old Man and the Sea, The Ernest
Hemingway
72.
On War Carl
Von Clausewitz
73.
Origin of Species, The Charles
Darwin
74.
Out of Control Kevin Kelly
75.
Picture of Dorian Gray, The Oscar
Wilde
76.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man, A James Joyce
77.
Prince, The Niccolo Machiavelli
78.
Robinson Carusoe Daniel Defoe
79.
Restaurant at the End of the
Universe, The Douglas Adams
80.
Satanic Verses, The Salman
Rushdie
81.
Scarlet Letter, The Nathaniel
Hawthorne
82.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The T.
E. Lawrence
83.
Selfish Gene, The Richard Dawkins
84.
Sherlock Holmes (Complete Works) Arthur
Conan Doyle
85.
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
86.
Tale of Two Cities, A Charles
Dickens
87.
Taming of the Shrew, The William
Shakespeare
88.
Torah
89.
Treasure Island Robert Louis
Stevenson
90.
Turn of the Screw, The Henry
James
91.
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher
Stowe
92.
Walden Henry David Thoreau
93.
Walden II B.F. Skinner
94.
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
95.
War of the Worlds, The H.G. Wells
96.
Wealth of Nations, The Adam Smith
97.
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
98.
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
99.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance Robert Pursig