Books

Gaining Knowledge/Intellectual Pursuits

44. Read or re-read 50 books (10/50)

Here’s the list of books I want to read & it’s going to be a list of 100 to be flexible ! ;-)

100 Books I Want to Read

    1. 50 Things You Want to Know About World Issues … but were too Afraid to Ask by Keith Suter
    2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (banned)
    3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (banned)
    5. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
    6. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (banned)
    7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    8. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
    9. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
    10. Behind the Bestsellers: The Stories Behind the World’s Favourite Books by Jenny Bond & Chris Sheedy
    11. The Bible by Various (banned)
    12. The Best Australian Essays 2004 by Various
    13. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
    14. The Bone Doll’s Twin (Book 1 of the Tamir Triad) by Lynn Flewelling
    15. A Book Addict’s Treasury by Lynda Murphy and Julie Rugg
    16. The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You Will Never Read by Stuart Kelly
    17. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (banned)
    18. The Breast by Philip Roth
    19. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
    20. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
    21. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (banned)
    22. Cell by Stephen King
    23. Colloquial French: A Complete Language Course by Alan Moys
    24. The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
    25. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
    26. Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
    27. Did Six Million Really Die? By Richard Harwood (banned)
    28. Dirt Music by Tim Winton
    29. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
    30. Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
    31. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
    32. Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
    33. Foundation’s Edge
    34. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
    35. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Richard Lancelyn Green
    36. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
    37. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    38. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
    39. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
    a. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone;
    b. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets;
    c. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban;
    d. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire;
    e. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix;
    f. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince;
    g. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    40. Hidden Warrior (Book 2 of the Tamir Triad) by Lynn Flewelling
    41. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
    a. The Golden Compass;
    b. The Subtle Knife;

    c. The Amber Spyglass
    42. His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
    43. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
    44. Holy Cow! by Sarah MacDonald
    45. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    46. Ice Station by Matthew Reilly
    47. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
    48. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
    49. The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel
    50. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
    51. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
    52. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
    53. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
    54. Love in Times of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    55. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
    56. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
    57. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    58. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
    59. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
    60. Monkey by Wu Ch’eng-en
    61. Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
    62. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
    63. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
    64. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
    65. No One To Trust by Iris Johansen
    66. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
    67. Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody
    a. Obernewtyn;
    b. The Farseekers;
    c. Ashling;

    d. The Keeping Place
    68. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
    69. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
    70. The Redemption of Althalus by David & Leigh Eddings
    71. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
    72. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
    73. Saddam: The Secret Life by Con Coughlin
    74. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
    75. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
    76. The Secret Garden (Illustrated & annotated hardback edition) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
    77. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    78. Slaughter-House-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    79. So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
    80. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
    81. Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
    82. This I Believe by Various
    83. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
    84. The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenger
    85. The Trial by Franz Kafka
    86. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
    87. The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
    88. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
    89. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
    90. Weasel Words by Don Watson
    91. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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