100 must-read books (shamelessly stolen)

I've mentioned I read a lot of books and I've even mentioned a couple of good ones here, but I think I need something more. Cathy emailed me an interesting new blog the other day and once I started reading it, I'm actually enjoying it.

So, first thing to steal - the books I (apparently) have to read. 100 of them. This could take me a few weeks.

Yes, I did mention I have stolen it and I'll even put a link to the original article before I edit it for my liking (and ease of reading) - 100 must-read books.

So, here goes a few things ... 100 to be exact
(Legend:
TBR - To Be Read
RI - Read It
RA - Read Again
NRA - Never Read Again
FR - Finish Reading)


The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald TBR
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli TBR
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut TBR
1984 by George Orwell RA
The Republic by Plato TBR
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky TBR
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger TBR
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith TBR
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway TBR
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde TBR
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck TBR
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley TBR
How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie FR
Call of the Wild by Jack London TBR
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris TBR
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss FR
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac TBR
The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer TBR
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller TBR
Walden by Henry David Thoreau TBR
Lord of the Flies by William Golding TBR
The Master and Margarita by by Mikhail Bulgakov TBR
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut TBR
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand TBR
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka TBR
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins TBR
White Noise by Don Delillo TBR
Ulysses by James Joyce TBR
The Young Man’s Guide by William Alcott TBR
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy TBR
Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond by Denis Johnson TBR
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky TBR
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse TBR
The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry by Christine De Pizan TBR
The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu FR
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra FR
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer TBR
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri TBR
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien RI
The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt TBR
East of Eden by John Steinbeck TBR
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes TBR
The Thin Red Line by James Jones TBR
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain TBR
The Politics by Aristotle TBR
First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook TBR
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand TBR
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller TBR
The Crisis by Winston Churchill TBR
The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer TBR
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen TBR
Animal Farm by George Orwell TBR
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs TBR
Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche TBR
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison TBR
Moby Dick by Herman Melville FR
Essential Manners for Men by Peter Post TBR
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly FR
Hamlet by Shakespeare RA
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn TBR
A Separate Peace by John Knowles TBR
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway TBR
The Stranger by Albert Camus TBR
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe FR
The Pearl by John Steinbeck TBR
On the Road by Jack Kerouac TBR
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson TBR
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole TBR
Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco TBR
The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux TBR
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard TBR
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose TBR
Paradise Lost by John Milton TBR
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck TBR
American Boys’ Handy Book TBR
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer TBR
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard TBR
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky TBR
A River Runs Through It by Norman F. Maclean TBR
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells FR
Malcolm X: The Autobiography TBR
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris TBR
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas FR
All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarq TBR
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane TBR
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch TBR
The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt TBR
The Bible FR (literally - god damn it! why?!)
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry TBR
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett FR
The Long Goodbye by Raymond ChandlerTBR
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee RI
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden TBR
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara TBR
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin TBR
The Histories by Herodotus TBR
From Here to Eternity by James Jones TBR
The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner TBR
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig TBR
Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson TBR


There are actually many in that list I'm NOT looking forward too. This is only slightly depressing. There are a number I have started reading (when I was so much younger) that I will have to go back and start again. There are others that are so jam packed full of Americana that I know I'm going to have trouble with them.

But here goes nothing, almost 100 books to jump into and see what sort of person I am at the end.

Now don't worry, I'm not going to be reading so much that there's no more entries - I'll be reading and posting about all the inane chatter that some of these titles are. It's going to be an interesting experience.