November 10, 2009

30 Books


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 by Hermann Hesse
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 Peaceby 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 Ringsby J.R.R. Tolkien
David Copperfieldby 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 Punishmentby 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

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5 comments:

  1. 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!

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  2. Oh wow, great idea! I might just keep to this as well!

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  3. I 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!

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  4. Wonderful list! I just got my sister to read To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time and she loved it.

    I 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!

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  5. 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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