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    Books you should read before you die.

    I saw a list on listology of 1001 books you should read before you die and thought why not try and start one here based on books we have all read. I'm going to begin mine. If you see a book on it you agree with just repost is as is and add your own. # 1 and 2 are my all time favorite books...the rest are in no particular order.

    1. War and peace
    2. The brothers karamozov
    3. Anna karenin
    4. A clockwork orange
    5. Everything is illuminated
    6. One flew over the cukoos nest
    7. The world according to garp
    8. Shes come undone
    9. I know this much is true(by wally lamb)
    10. The notebook.
    11. Enders game
    12. I hope they serve beer in hell (for those with a sense of humor and a love of irony and sarcasm)
    13. Watership down
    14.The idiot.
    15. Harry potter series
    16. smashed
    17. The portrait of a lady (slow start but it will have you hooked before you know it )
    18. The hobbit.

    (just for fun: Here is a list of what im planning to read this month- if you have any that you recommend I would love to know)

    A brief history of time-Hawking
    Ignorance-Milan kundera
    A pale view of hills-Ishiguro
    On beauty-Zade smith
    Jonny got his gun-trumbo
    Haunted- Chuck P.
    The collector-fowles
    1984- Orwell (i cant believe I still haven't read this)
    Slow man
    In search of lost time.

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    Cool If you read In Search of Lost Time ....

    as your full-time reading, you wouldn't get through it in a month. As my literature professor said many years ago, "If you read Proust in bed, you wont have to worry about falling asleep right away."

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    Here's my list. I've limited it to 20

    1. Atlas Shrugged
    2. Shakespeare's Sonnets
    3. Geek Love
    4. A clockwork orange
    5. The Time Machine
    6. The entire Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series
    7. The Prince
    8. Enders game
    9. The Hobbit
    10. A Wrinkle in Time
    11. The Cask of Amontillado
    12. The Cay - by Theodore Taylor
    13. Titus Andronicus
    14. Hamlet
    15. Harry potter series - enjoyable and worth the read, but not in the same class as some of the other books mentioned here
    16. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    17. Lord of the Flies
    18. Animal Farm
    19. The Jungle
    20. Dracula

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    Yeah, i might need a couple of months but I read pretty fast. I finished about 5 books last month alone. we shall see though

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    In no particular order

    1. Siddhartha
    2. Island of the Blue Dolphins (yes it is a kids book but a marvelous story that everyone should read at least once in thier life)
    3. The Magus
    4. The Fountainhead
    5. The Stranger
    6. No Exit
    7. Complete works of Edgar Allan Poe
    8. Paradise Lost
    9. The Inferno
    10. Frankenstein
    11. Still Life with Woodpecker
    12. Catcher in the Rye
    13. The Little Prince
    14. Good Omens
    15. Comeplete works of Shakespeare (I know it sounds so cliche and I almost didn't include it but I couldn't resist)
    16. The Three Musketeers
    17. Middlesex
    18. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    19. The Odyssey
    20. Notes from Underground

    I could go on......but I better draw the line here, or I will get to a full 1000 single-handedly LOL

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Awwww, I loved Island of the Blue Dolphins.
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    Hehe yes, it still retains a place among my personal faverties.

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Book of Job
    Be Bold by Archilochus
    The Oresteia
    The Oedipus Cycle
    The Bacchae
    Lysistrata
    The Republic
    The Metamorphoses
    Thyestes
    Satyricon
    Pharsalia
    Song of the Wagons by Tu Fu
    Song of Unending Sorrow by Po Chu-i
    Shahnameh
    The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
    The Inferno
    Montaigne's Essays
    Tom O'Bedlam
    The Complete Works of Shakespeare
    Fuente Ovejuna
    Life is a Dream
    The Maxims of La Rouchefoucauld
    Andromache by Racine
    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    Leopardi's Poems
    Danton's Death
    Pere Goriot
    Ulysses (Tennyson)
    A Hero of Our Times
    The Three Musketeers
    The Cask of Amontillado
    The Scarlet Letter
    Moby Dick
    Walden
    Flowers of Evil
    Madame Bovary
    The Haystack in the Floods
    Les Miserables
    Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
    Little Women
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    The Yellow Wallpaper
    The Light that Failed
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    Heart of Darkness
    The Call of the Wild
    The Way of All Flesh
    Mending Wall
    Of Human Bondage
    The Wreck of the Deutschland
    Winesburg, Ohio
    The Second Coming
    The Wasteland
    The Most Dangerous Game
    Mrs. Dalloway
    The Great Gatsby
    Steppenwolf
    Journey to the End of the Night
    Of Mice and Men
    Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust
    God Down, Moses
    The Dwarf
    No Exit
    1984
    Waiting For Godot
    Lolita
    On the Road
    The Catcher in the Rye
    Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
    The Old Man and The Sea
    The Shield of Achilles
    Howl
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    Long Day's Journey Into Night
    Seize the Day
    Catch-22
    Everything that Rises Must Converge
    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    The Lion in Winter
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    Fences
    Fight Club
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    Why don't we follow the procedure used by "top ten". List your top ten of books you have read that you think others should read before they die *in order*.

    Eventually we will get a list of 1001 books in order of the "best" according to LitNet. Here's my list (today!):

    1. Hamlet
    2. David Copperfield
    3. Anna Karenina
    4. Don Quixote
    5. Jude the Obscure
    6. The Symposium - Plato
    7. Buddenbrooks
    8. Point Counter Point
    9. 1984
    10. Notes from the Underground

    Note - one book per author, one play by Shalespeare (not complete works!), one book of the Biible...

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    By the way,it became my guide book
    i'm not saying it's the perfect list but i just find it very useful as a referance book
    While you live your life, you are in some way an organic whole with all life. But once you start the mental life you pluck the apple.You've severed the connexion between,the apple and the tree:the organic connexion. And if you've got nothing in your life but the mental life, then you yourself are a plucked apple...
    You've fallen off the tree.

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    This is a list of books that I have read and re-read, or plan on re-reading, and that will be the standard by which I will judge whether or not they are "must reads".

    1. Molloy - Samuel Beckett
    2. In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway
    3. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
    4. Inferno - Dante

    I will add more later.

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    Note - one book per author, one play by Shalespeare (not complete works!), one book of the Biible...
    I agree. We should be specific. If this is a list of books that must be read before ones death, then we should limit the amount of time spent with a single author.

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    I know it's not really the same, but I made a list of 20 authors that I have not read and that do not particularly interest me, but I feel are essential to read at some point for a comprehensive knowledge of literature:

    Oscar Wilde
    Ernest Hemingway
    William Shakespeare
    Homer
    Victor Hugo
    Alexander Dumas
    Dante
    John Milton
    William Faulkner
    Pushkin
    JD Salinger
    Mark Twain
    Jack London
    Gustave Flaubert
    John Steinbeck
    The Bible
    Charles Dickens
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Honore de Balzac
    Ovid

    Well, some of those do interest me quite a bit, actually. Just not as much as certain other authors. I'm hoping that I get most of them out of the way through college classes.

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    1) Hamlet
    2) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
    3) Portrait of a Lady
    4) Hard Times
    5) Oscar Wilde's plays
    6) The Bible
    7) Lord of the Flies
    8) Tales of Mystery and Terror

    Will come back after browsing through my collection
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    Excellent first choice!
    The Moments of Dominion
    That happen on the Soul
    And leave it with a Discontent
    Too exquisite — to tell —
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