Tuesday, December 01, 2009

My 'Read before Dying'

(*)- Have Read/ Am Reading/ Possess, but waiting for Death to near.

1. Tales of Belkin and other prose writings – Pushkin (*)
2. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (*)
3. The unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath (*)
4. In search of lost time- Marcel Proust (Swann's Way*)
5. War and Peace + Anna Karenina (*)- Leo Tolstoy
6. The Crimson Petal And The White- Michel Faber (*)
7. 100 years of solitude + Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez (*)
8. Dead Souls- Gogol (*)
9. The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
10. Rebecca- Daphne Du Maurier (*)
11. Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger (*)
12. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand (*)
13. Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
14. The Golden Notebook- Doris Lessing (*)
15. Portrait of a Lady- Henry James (*)
16. Bobbed Hair And Bathtub Gin- Marion Meade (*)
17. Emile Zola*
18. Napoleon- Frank Mclynn (*)
19. Life of Pi- Yann Martel (*)
20. Sula- Toni Morrison (*)
21. Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie (*)
22. Ethics- Benedict De Spinoza
23. Hunchback of Notre Dame- Victor Hugo (*)
24. Crime and Punishment + The Brothers Karamazov (*)- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25. The Collected Stories Of Eudora Welty (*) + The Optimist's Daughter- Eudora Welty
26. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers (*)
27. The Iliad + Odyssey (*)- Homer
28. Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
30. The sound and the fury- William Faulkner (*)
31. Tender Is The Night- Scott F. Fitzerald (*)
32. The Book of Mormon
33. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky
34. Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter- Simone De Beauvoir
35. Year Of Magical Thinking- Joan Didion (*)
36. Joseph and His Brothers- Thomas Mann
37. Running With Scissors- Augusten Burroughs
38. Buddenbrooks (*) + Magic Mountain- Thomas Mann
39. The Life of Reason- George Santayana
40. Lust For Life- Irving Stone


NOT INCLUDING SHAKESPEARE, SHORT STORIES AND THE OBVIOUS CLASSICS (Dickens, Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Austen, Twain, Oscar Wilde, Hemingway, etc.)!