May 12 2008
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Looks like I’d better stay alive for a while.
The 27 that I have read:
- Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
- Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
- The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, Douglas Adams
- Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- The World According to Garp, John Irving
- Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
- Slaughterhouse-five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Portnoy’s Complaint, Philip Roth
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
- Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
- Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
- Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
(via kottke)
