This book list was supposed to be a project to finish before I turned 25. Well 25 came and is quickly going. But the list has been adjusted a few times to compensate for a few other classics that I threw into the list. So here is the list again with notes on which books I have read and a few extras at the bottom.
1.)Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
(I read this in HS but I am thinking I will read it again)
2.)The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
3.)To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
(I read this in HS too, loved it and will be reading it again)
4.)The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
5.)The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
(What an interesting read this was. I wasn't expecting to fall in love with the story line considering how much I didn't care for the sub context.)
6.)Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
7.)The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(What an amazing read!)
8.)The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
(I really want to read this one again.)
9.)The Historian by Elizabeth
Kostova
10.)Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
(So I read this one. It was one of the longest reads I have ever had. And then when I finished it I hopped right into...)
10.5)Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
(This was a long read also. Not as long as Great Expectations. I knew what to expect when I dug into this one. Dickens is a very very very descriptive, long winded writer. I'm more of a get to the point kind of girl.)
11.)
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
12.)The Quiet American by Graham Greene
13.)The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14.)The Stand by Stephen King
(I read the fist few chapters and had to save this for a later date. It's a bit intense.)
15.)Animal Farm by George Orwell
(I found this book to be oddly funny and extremely biased but overall a great read.)
16.)On the Road by Jack Kerouac
17.)Invisible Monsters by Chuck
Palahniuk
18.)Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
19.)The Crucible by Arthur Miller
(I also read this one in HS. Very odd story but a good one no less)
20.)Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
21.)Things Fall Apart by
Chinua Achebe
22.)The Count of Monte
Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
(Also another very long read but I was totally in love with it by the time I finished.)
23.)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
(Another that I have read. This might have been Middle School. I will be reading it again to see if I find any new enlightenment from it.)
24.)Fast Food Nation by Eric
Schlossinger
25.)Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
(It's so interesting to get a glimpse of the mind on drugs. Possibly the weirdest, hardest to follow books I have ever read.)
Additions to the list.
26.) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
(This is the book that originally started the search for other classic novels to read. I will forever love this story. It's amazing what love can do.)
27.)Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
28.)Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
29.)Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
30.)The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
31.)Moby Dick by Herman Melville
32.)Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
33.)Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
34.)A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
35.)Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
(I am currently reading this and so far I like it. But as with Dickens, Tolstoy is a very long winded, very descriptive writer.)
36.)War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
37.)The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
I'm sure the list will continue to grow as time goes on...but for now that's the list.
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