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Tuesday, 19 February 2013

50 Books you must read before you die

Since the summer of 2011, me and my lovely other half have been reading Waterstones top 50 books to read before you die. 

It is coming up to 2 years now and I have read drum roll please..........7

I know I could of read more but some are very difficult reads and I like to have a break in between the list books and read a nice easy book. 

We are thoroughly enjoying reading these books, there are some books I would never of picked up, but now I am so glad I have read them and would defiantly recommend on the other hand there are some I have read and would never read again cough*thegreatgatsby*cough. 

This is the full list. All those in red I have read.

01. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy J.R.R Tolkien
02. 1984 George Orwell
03. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
04. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
05. To Kill a Mocking Bird Harper Lee
06. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
07. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
08. A Passage to India E.M Forster
09. 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 Fitzgerald
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 
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 Tolstoy
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. Man Without Women Ernest Hemmingway
41. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
42. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
43. Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
44. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe45. One Flew of the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
46. Catch 22 Joseph Heller
47. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
48. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
49. The Divine Comedy Alighieri Dante
50. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

If any of you have read one of these books, please let me know what you thought!




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