50 Books to read…

My parents have always been a huge inspiration for me, and to inspire me further one Christmas my mum bought me a fantastic bookmark, inscribed with 50 books which I apparently must read before I die. Since I’m blogging about what I’m reading I thought I may as well share this list with you- how many have you read?!

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – J. R.R. Tolkien
2. 1984 – George Orwell
3. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
4. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. A Passage to India – E. M. Forster
9. The Lord of The Flies – William Golding
10. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
11. A bend In The River – V. S. Naipaul
12. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitszgerald
13. The Catcher in The Rye – J. D. Salinger
14. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
15. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
16. The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
17. Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes
18. The Bible – Various Authors
19. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
20. Ulysses – James Joyce
21. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
22. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
23. Money – Martin Amis
24. Harry Potter Series- J. K. Rowling
25. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
26. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
27. His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman
28. Anna Karenina – Leo Toistoy
29. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
31. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time – Mark Haddon
32. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
33. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
34. The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope
35. The Outsider – Albert Camus
36. The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
37. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
38. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
39. The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
40. Men Without Women – Ernest Hemingway
41. Gulliver’s Travels – Johnathon Swift
42. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
43. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
44. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
45. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
46. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
47. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
48. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
49. The Divine Comedy – Alighieri Dante
50. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde