These are the books I’ve read from the totally arbitrary list of 1001 books I’m supposed to read before I die:
Saturday – Ian McEwan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Shining – Stephen King
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
How It Is – Samuel Beckett
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Outsider – Albert Camus
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
The Castle – Franz Kafka
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
