My 2007 reading list

[Winston]

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms; For whom the bell tolls
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Franz Kafka: The Trial
Albert Camus: The Stranger; The Plague
Chuck Palahniuk: Diary; Fight club
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Arthur Rimbaud: Selected Poems and Letters
Charles Baudelaire: Paris Spleen
Maxx Barry: Syrup
William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four; Animal farm
Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Kjell Westö: Kites over Helsinki
Marguerite Yourcenar: Memoirs of Hadrian
Banana Yoshimoto: Lizard
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea
Bret Easton Ellis: Lunar Park
Erlend Loe: Supernaive
Simone de Beauvoir: Mandarins
Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Umberto Eco: Baudolino
Jack Kerouac: On the road; Dharma Bums
Hunter S. Thompson: Rum diary; Fear and laothing in Las Vegas
Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremly loud and incredibly close-by; All Is Alluminated
John Irving: The world according to garp; A Prayer for Owen Meany
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
José Saramago: Stad der zienden; stad der blinden (it's dutch)
Patrick Suskind: The Perfume
William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch; Nova Trilogy; Junkie
Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer;
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Yann Martel: life of pi
John Steinbeck: the moon is down; to a god unkown
Jerzy Kosiński: The Painted Bird
J.D Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye; For Esme with Love and Squalor
Ken Kessey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
D.H Lawrence: Women in Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground; The Brothers Karamazov
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange; Earthly Powers
Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan
Frank Norris: McTeague
J.B Priestley: Benighted; The Magicians; Angel Pavement
Kurt Vonnegut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut): Slaughterhouse-Five;
Richard Flanagan: GOULD'S BOOK OF FISH: A Novel in Twelve Fish; DEATH OF A RIVER GUIDE
Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Mists of Avalon
Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha; Steppenwolf
Victor Hugo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo): Les Misérables
James Joyce: Ulysses
F. Scott Fitzgerald (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald): THE GREAT GATSBY
Aldous Huxley: BRAVE NEW WORLD

Well, I want to try and read them all by next year:tong:
The bold ones are the ones I already read.

[rosegarden]

:icon_eek:Wow! What a huge list..........some serious books there. The only one I've read is Perfume by Patrick Suskind which I really enjoyed.

:welcomeboard:

Carole
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[Kell]

:welcome: to the forum, Winston. You've got several books on your list that I've read & loved (such as Lolita, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Great Gatsby for starters), so I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I did. There are also one or two on my own pile of books to be read as well as my wish list - i'll look forward to discussing them with you. :)

[Janet]

Hi Winston - welcome to the forums - you should pop over to the introductions section and say hi! :)

I've read one or two from your list, and am currently reading 1984, although I'm not getting through it very quickly due to real life getting in the way!

[Liz]

Hello Winston. :mrgreen:

Great list!
Have read a few of the ones on there -
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four
A Clockwork Orange
The Catcher in the Rye
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Really enjoyed them.

There are quite a few others on your list that I've got waiting on the shelf to be read as well.

Welcome to the forum. :)

[Maureen]

Hey Welcome to here Winston. Big pile there!

[everydayxangels]

wow, that is quite a list. I see mostly classics, which can be discouraging. happy reading :smile2: