Friday, 17 August 2012

52. Read The Greatest Books Ever Written 12/95 complete


1984 by George Orwell
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Asterix and the Golden Sickle by R. Goscinny/A. Uderzo
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
The Complete Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
Crash by J.G. Ballard
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Dubliners by James Joyce
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Explaining Death to the Dog by Susan Perabo
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Cupland
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Kes (A Kestrel for a Knave) by Barry Hines
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Magic Porridge Pot by Anon
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Mr Tickle by Roger Hargreaves
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
No Logo by Naomi Klein
Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
The Odyssey & The Iliad by Homer
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Possession by A.S. Byatt
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Sarah by J.T. Leroy
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Stupid White Men by Michael moore
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ulysses by James Joyce (35% through)
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
The Van by Roddy Doyle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks
Waterland by Graham Swift
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Wind in the Willows by kenneth Grahame
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Luckily a few of these books were covered in English classes back when I was in school. However some are quite tricky reads. For instance, Ulysses by James Joyce, is a right bugger to read, its more of a book of how he uses the English language than an actual story, extremely hard to follow!

However there are some greats! And I have my trusty Kindle to help me keep all my books in order. If you fancy helping the cause, and buying me a book, check out my wish list on amazon by Clicking Here, would really appreciate it, every little helps!

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