My Book Queue

[aamir]

I have compiled a list of every single book that I think is worthy of reading as its a great piece of literature or for other reasons. I really would like to expand this list, so I've posted it here, so if you have any reccommendations for me (as many as you want) could you please post them? Just any books you enjoyed at all? Oh, and what is this site's obsession with Dostoevsky? Just wondering.

BOOKS I WANT TO READ
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1814)
Emma by Jane Austen (1815)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
Mathilda by Mary Shelley (1820)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (1831)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (1839)
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (1840)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847)
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (1847)
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1862)
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne (1864)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1869)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1873)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1881)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1893)
The Time Machine by HG Wells (1895)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells (1898)
The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley (1919)
Women in Love by DH Lawrence (1920)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr (1935)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
The Sword in the Stone by TH White (1938)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
1984 by George Orwell (1949)
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (1950)
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (1953)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (1954)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (1955)
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1957)
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (1958)
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1958)
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse (1959)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961)
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (1968)
The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969)
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers (1972)
Forever by Judy Blume (1975)
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (1977)
Annie by Thomas Meehan (1977)
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum (1980)
Dreamgirls by Tom Eyen (1981)
Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden (1982)
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy (1987)
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1990)
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (1993)
Beauty and the Beast by Linda Woolverton (1994)
The Reader by Benhardq Schlink (1995)
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (1996)
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (1997)
Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer (1999)
Noughts And Crosses by Malorie Blackman (2001)
The Constant Gardener by John le Carre (2001)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)
S.O.S. by Joseph Connelly (2001)
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger (2001)
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham (2001)
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2002)
Vitals by Greg Bear (2002)
Prey by Michael Crichton (2002)
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (2002)
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2003)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (2003)
Avenue Q by Jeff Whitty (2003)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2003)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albow (2003)
Notes On A Scandal by Zoe Heller (2003)
Looking For Alaska by John Green (2005)
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (2005)
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (2005)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2007)

[Eryk]

Here's a list of all the Penguin Classics. (http://ppi-pwf.texterity.com/ppi/penguinclassics2008/) I use it pretty often.

[dfloyd]

Your list has several years of reading on it. You do not need any more books on your list right now. I have read about 90% of your list, and it is a fairly good one. But please delete The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, and Bridget Jones' Diary. If you must do anything with these, just watch a dvd. The only list these should be on is the worst 100 books list

[mona amon]

:thumbs_up Wow, that's quite a list!

My suggestions ~

A house for Mr Biswas

A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

[mal4mac]

BOOKS I WANT TO READ
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
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Emma by Jane Austen (1815)
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So far so good!

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
Mathilda by Mary Shelley (1820)


I found Frankenstein dragged on a bit, and don't feel inclined to re-read it. Why Mathilda? Who else thinks it's worth reading?



Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (1839)


Your list is, rightly, Dickens heavy :D You might want to start with Dickens and read another Dickens when you are feeking drained by Dostoevsky or another heavyweight.



The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)


Are you sure?

From "The Talented Mr Ripley" onwards the list gets a bit dodgy, but don't they all :D Of one's I've read I'd recommend without hesitation:

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (1993)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (2003)