That Everyone should read before they turn 30
(I'm going to do this...with the hope of completing it in less than 10 years!)
Siddhartha
1984
by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
The Rights of Man
by Tom Painey
The Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
The Wisdom of the Desert
by Thomas Merton
The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Graham
The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
Four Quartets
by T.S. Eliot
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
The Republic
by Plato
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Getting Things Done
by David Allen
How To Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov







I have my BA in English and I give a big thumbs up to this list :) I will admit I haven't read some of them though!
ReplyDeleteOh wow, great idea! I might just keep to this as well!
ReplyDeleteI love reading... you should post your fav books! I am currently reading "Wesley the barn owl" If you are an animal lover you will really like this book!
ReplyDeleteWonderful list! I just got my sister to read To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time and she loved it.
ReplyDeleteI must add, although not a classic like most of these: The Kite Runner and A 1000 Splendid Suns. Just finished both of them and I recommend them to everyone!
Is it bad that there are books on this list that I've never even heard of? At least I have read some of them. :)
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