50 Books to Read Before You Die
In the prestigious Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford I stumbled across a list of 50 books to read before you die. At Oxford I broadened my horizons and developed a new mindset with regard to 'whats important' in life. (Perhaps my research paper on American Consumerism played a part in that...) Now that I am back in the mainland USA I am striving to keep the same inquisitive and open mind I developed at Exeter. As a tribute to my time at Oxford and to further develop my mind I will begin on a quest to finish the 50 books you should read before you die, as suggested by the Bodleian Library. Some I have already read in high school, but I plan to read them again, so I will not cross them off just yet.
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- A Passage to India by EM Foster
- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Bible
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
- Money by Martin Amis
The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling(read 3 times; last time was Summer 2013)- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- His Dark Material Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
- The Outside by Albert Camus
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
- Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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