Thursday, January 6, 2011

50 BOOKS TO READ IN YOUR LIFETIME

In Cold Blood,  Truman Capote 1966

Lolita,  Vladimir Nabokov 1955

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand 1943

Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 1949

Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 1950

A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 1993

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey 1962

Lord of the Flies, William Golding 1954

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 1869

The True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey 2000

The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe 1987

Fingersmith, Sarah Waters 2002

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert 1857

In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust 1913

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon 2003

The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 1998

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath 1963

Life of Pi, Yann Martel 2001

Ulysses, James Joyce 1922

Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 1938

Alive, Piers Paul Reid 1974

The Secret History, Donna Tartt 1992

The Shipping News, E. Annie. Proux 1993

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg 1992

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson 1971

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenedies 2002

The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl 1991

The Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell 1957-1960

Birds Without Wings, Louis de Bernieres 2004

The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott 1965-1975

Rivers of Babylon, Peter Pist’anek 1978

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami 1994

The Balkan Trilogy, Olivia Manning 1960

The Blue Afternoon, William Boyd 1993

Northern Lights, Philip Pullman 1995

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte 1847

Silas Marner, George Eliot 1861

Captain Correlli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 1993

Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky 1866

The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins 1859

Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson 1995

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 1891

Jack Maggs, Peter Carey 1997

Pieces of Blue, Kerry McGinnis 2000

Animal Farm, George Orwell 1945

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Sozhenitsyn 1963

Birdsong, Sebastian Faulkes 1993

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 1860

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 1939

Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood 1996

 
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