Please read these before you die (hurry, you may die tomorrow) [No particular order] 1. Bible 2. Koran 3. Torah 4. Beowulf 5. Davy Crockett 6. The Epit of Gilgamesh 7. Wild Bill Hickock 8. Kit Carson John Abbott 9. The King of the Mountains Edmond About 10. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 11. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 12. Watership Down Richard Adams 13. Prometheus Bound Aeschylus 14. A Death in the Family James Agee 15. Little Women Louisa May Alcott 16. The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 17. Fairy Tales and Stories Hans Christian Anderson 18. Mahabharata Anonymous 19. Njal's Saga Anonymous 20. Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer 21. Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 22. The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M Auel
23. Meditations Marcus Aurelius 24. Emma Jane Austen* 25. Persuasion Jane Austen 26. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen* 27. Daniel Boone John Bakeless 28. Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin 29. Trilogy: Molly, Malone Dies, The Unamable Samuel Beckett 30. Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett 31. The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 32. Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Berniers 33. The Last Spike Pierre Berton 34. Carmen George Bizet 35. Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman 36. The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton 37. Decameron Giovanni Boccacio 38. Collected Fictions Jorge Luis Borges 39. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte 40. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte* 41. Fang and Claw Frank Buck 42. On Jungle Trails Frank Buck 43. Bring 'em Back Alive Frank Buck and Edward Anthony 44. Last Days of Pompeii Edward BulwerLytton 45. The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan* 46. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
47. The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 48. Marco Polo Donn Byrne 49. The Princess Diaries Meg Cabot 50. Caesar's Conquests Julius Caesar 51. The Stranger Albert Camus 52. Alice in Wonderland Lewis Caroll* 53. Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather 54. Poems of Paul Celan Paul Celan 55. Journey to the End of Night LouisFerdinana D. Celine 56. The Adventures of Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 57. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes* 58. Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer* 59. Selected Stories of Anton Chekov Anton Pavlovich Chekov 60. The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekov 61. The Awakening Kate Chopin 62. The Crises Winston Churchill 63. The Oxbow Incident Walter Van Tillburn Clark 64. Buffalo Bill William F Cody 65. The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 66. Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 67. Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer 68. The Moonstone William Wilkie Collins 69. The Woman in White William Wilkie Collins 70. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad*
71. Nostromo Joseph Conrad 72. Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 73. Last of the Mohicans James Fenimoore Cooper* 74. The Deerslayer James Fenimoore Cooper 75. The Pathfiner James Fenimoore Cooper* 76. The Pilot James Fenimoore Cooper 77. The Pioneers James Fenimoore Cooper 78. The Red Rover James Fenimoore Cooper 79. The Spy James Fenimoore Cooper 80. The Prairie James Fenimoore Cooper 81. The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane* 82. Charlie and the Chocolate Facotory Roald Dahl* 83. Matilda Roald Dahl* 84. The BFG Roald Dahl 85. The Twits Roald Dahl 86. Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana Jr. 87. Inferno Dante 88. The Origin of Species Charles Darwin 89. Soldiers of Fortune Richard Harding David 90. De Balzac, Honore – Old Goriot 91. Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe* 92. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe (1719)* 93. Conquest of Mexico Bernal Diez Del Castillo (1632) 94. How We Think Dewey, John
95. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 96. A Tale of Two Cities Dickens, Charles (1859)* 97. Bleak House Charles Dickens* 98. David Copperfield Charles Dickens (1850)* 99. Great Expectations Charles Dickens (1861)* 100.
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
101.
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master Denis Diderot
102.
Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Doblin
103.
Crime and Punishment Feodor Dostoyevsky(1866)*
104.
The Brothers Karamazov Feodor Dostoyevsky
105.
The Idiot Feodor Dostoyevsky
106.
The Possessed Feodor Dostoyevsky
107.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass
108.
A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)
109.
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle(1902)
110.
The Sign of the Four Arthur Conan Doyle
111.
The Speckled Band Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
112.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle (1891)
113.
Camille Alexandre Dumas (1852)
114.
The Black Tulip Alexandre Dumas (1850)
115.
The Conspirators Alexandre Dumas (1843)
116.
The Corsican Brothers Alexandre Dumas (1845)
117.
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas (1844)*
118.
The FortyFive Guardsmen Alexandre Dumas (1848)
119.
The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas (1850)
120.
The Queen’s Necklace (Alexandre Dumas (1849)
121.
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas (1844)*
122.
Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas (1845)
123.
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot*
124.
Middlemarch George Eliot*
125.
Silas Marner George Eliot (1861)*
126.
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
127.
Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson*
128.
SelfReliance Ralph Waldo Emerson*
129.
Waterloo Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian
130.
Medea Euripides*
131.
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
132.
Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner
133.
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
134.
Birdsong Sebastien Faulks
135.
Magician Raymond E. Feist
136.
Bridget Jone’s Diary Helen Fielding*
137.
Tom Jones Henry Fielding*
138.
The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald*
139.
A Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert
140.
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert*
141.
The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
142.
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
143.
The Magus John Fowles
144.
Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin(1817)
145.
Arabian Nights Anthony Galland(1704)
146.
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
147.
Dead Souls Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
148.
The Cossack Chief Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (1839)
149.
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
150.
The Lord of the Flies William Golding
151.
Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
152.
The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
153.
Cleopatra H Rider Haggard (1889)
154.
King Solomon's Mines H Rider Haggard (1885)
155.
Man Without a Country Edward Everett Hale (1863)
156.
Hunger Knut Hamsun
157.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
158.
Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
159.
Tess of the D'Ubervilles Thomas Hardy*
160.
The Luck of Roaring Camp Bret Harte (1870)
161.
The Outcasts of Poker Falts Bret Harte (1870)
162.
The Dark Frigate Charles Boardman Hawes (1923)
163.
The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes (1920)
164.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
165.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne*
166.
Catch 22 Joseph Heller
167.
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
168.
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
169.
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
170.
In the Reign of Terror G A Henty (1890)
171.
The Lion of the North G A Henty (1890)
172.
Won by the Sword G A Henty (1899)
173.
Dune Frank Herbert*
174.
The Iliad Homer (962 BCE)*
175.
The Odyssey Homer (927 BCE)
176.
The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope (1894)
177.
The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough (1922)
178.
An American Tragedy Irving Howe
179.
Green Mansions William Henry Hudson (1904)
180.
Ton Brown's School Days Thomas Hughes (1856)*
181.
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
182.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo (1831)*
183.
The Man Who Laughs Victor Hugo (1869)
184.
Toilers of the Sea Victor Hugo (1866)
185.
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
186.
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
187.
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen
188.
Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen*
189.
A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
190.
Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving
191.
The Headless Horseman Washington Irving
192.
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
193.
The Turn of the Screw Henry James
194.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
195.
Ulysses James Joyce
196.
The Castle Franz Kafka
197.
The Complete Stories Franz Kafka
198.
The Trial Franz Kafka
199.
The Recognition of Sakuntala Kalidasa
200.
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant
201.
The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata
202.
Zora the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis
203.
On the Road Jack Kerouac
204.
The Stand Stephen King
205.
Westward, Ho! Charles Kingsley (1855)
206.
The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston
207.
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling (1897)
208.
Kim Rudyard Kipling (1901)
209.
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling (1894)*
210.
Sons and Lovers D H Lawrence*
211.
Independent People Halldor Kiljan Laxness
212.
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
213.
Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi Giacomo Leopardi
214.
The Golden Notebook Doris M Lessing
215.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C S Lewis*
216.
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
217.
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren
218.
The Call of the Wild Jack London (1903)
219.
The Sea Wolf Jack London (1904)
220.
White Fang Jack London (1906)
221.
The Song of Hiawatha Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
222.
Courtship of Miles Standish Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1858)
223.
Evangeline Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
224.
The Prince Machiavelli*
225.
Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian
226.
Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfous
227.
Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann
228.
The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
229.
Love in the time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
230.
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
231.
Mr Midshipman Easy Captain Frederick Marryat (1836)
232.
The Little Savage Captain Frederick Marryat (1848)
233.
Dap Kapital Karl Marx
234.
The Flayed Hand Guy de Maupassant
235.
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
236.
The Thorn Birds Colleen McCollough
237.
Barteby the Scrivener Herman Melville
238.
Moby Dick Herman Melville (1851)*
239.
Typee Herman Melville (1846)
240.
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
241.
The Crucible Arthur Miller
242.
Winnie the Pooh A A Milne
243.
Paradise Lost John Milton
244.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
245.
Tartuffe Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
246.
Essays Michel De Montaigne
247.
Anne of Green Gables L M Montgomery
248.
History Elsa Morante
249.
Beloved Toni Morrison
250.
King of the Khyber Rifles Talbot Mundy (1916)
251.
The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil
252.
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
253.
Men Against the Sea Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1933)
254.
Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1932)
255.
Pitcairn's Island Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1939)
256.
The Hurricane Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1936)
257.
The Octopus Frank Norris
258.
A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor
259.
Long Day's Journey into Night Eugene O'Neill
260.
1984 George Orwell
261.
Animal Farm George Orwell
262.
Under Two Flags Ouida (1868)
263.
Metamorphoses Ovid
264.
The Conspiracy of the Pontiac Francis Parkman (1851)
265.
The Oregon Trail Franic Parkman (1849)
266.
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak*
267.
Gormenghast Mervyn Peake
268.
The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
269.
The Shell Seekers Rosamunde Pilcher
270.
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
271.
The Republic Plato
272.
The Complete Tales Edgar Allen Poe*
273.
Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo
274.
The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter (1809)
275.
Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett
276.
Mort Terry Pratchett
277.
Night Watch Terry Pratchett
278.
The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett
279.
Good Omens Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
280.
Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust
281.
Swann's Way Marcel Proust
282.
His Dark Materials Philip Pullman*
283.
The Godfather Mario Puzo
284.
Knights of the Round Table Howard Pyle (1903)
285.
Men of Iron Howard Pyle (1891)
286.
Robin Hood Howard Pyle (1883)
287.
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
288.
Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais
289.
Swallows and Amazons Arthur Rasome
290.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade (1861)
291.
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque (1928)
292.
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Joao Guimaraes Rosa
293.
Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand (1897)
294.
Call it Sleep Henry Roth
295.
The Social Contract Jean Jacques Rousseau
296.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J K Rowling*
297.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J K Rowling*
298.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J K Rowling*
299.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J K Rowling
300.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J K Rowling*
301.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince J K Rowling
302.
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
303.
Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo
304.
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
305.
Holes Louis Sachar
306.
A Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih
307.
The Catcher in the Rye J D Salinger
308.
Blindness Jose Saramago
309.
Lafitte the Pirate Lyle Saxon (1930)
310.
Joan of Arc Frederick Schiller (1801)
311.
William Tell Frederick Schiller (1804)
312.
The World as Will and Idea Arthur Schopenhauer
313.
Castle Dangerous Walter Scott (1831)
314.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott (1820)*
315.
Rob Roy Walter Scott (1818)
316.
The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott (1810)
317.
The Talisman Walter Scott (1825)
318.
A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
319.
Katherine Anya Seton
320.
Lives of the Hunted Ernest Thompson Seton (1902)
321.
Wild Animals I have known Ernest Thompson Seton (1898)
322.
Black Beauty Anna Sewell (1860)
323.
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare (1600)
324.
Hamlet William Shakespeare (1603)
325.
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare (1607)*
326.
King Lear William Shakespeare*
327.
Macbeth William Shakespeare (1606)
328.
Othello William Shakespeare
329.
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare (1597)
330.
The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare
331.
The Tempest William Shakespeare
332.
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
333.
The Bostan of Saadi Sheikh MuslijudDin Sa'adi of Shiraz
334.
Frankenstein Mary Shelley (1818)
335.
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu
336.
A Town like Alice Nevil Shute
337.
With Fire and Sword Henry Sienkiewicz (1890)
338.
Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko
339.
The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
340.
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
341.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitseyn
342.
Antigone Sophocles
343.
Oedipus the King Sophocles
344.
The Decline of the West Oswald Spengler
345.
How I Found Livingstone Henry M Stanley (1872)
346.
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
347.
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck*
348.
The Red and the Black Stendhal
349.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
350.
David Balfour Robert Louis Stevenson (1893)
351.
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
352.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)*
353.
The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson (1888)
354.
The Master of Ballantree Robert Louis Stevenson (1889)
355.
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
356.
The Bottle Imp Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)
357.
The Beach at Falesa Robert Louis Stevenson (1892)
358.
Dracula Bram Stoker*
359.
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
360.
Mysteries of Pari Eugene Sue (1842)
361.
Perfume Patrick Suskind
362.
Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo
363.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathon Swift
364.
The Secret History Donna Tartt
365.
Idyls of the King Alfred Tennyson
366.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray*
367.
Abramham Lincoln Benjamin Thomas (1952)
368.
Walden Henry David Thoreau
369.
The Hobbit J R R Tolkien
370.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring J R R Tolkien*
371.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers J R R Tolkien*
372.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King J R R Tolkien*
373.
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy*
374.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories Leo Tolstoy
375.
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
376.
The Raged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell
377.
Fathers and Sons Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
378.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain (1889)
379.
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (1884)*
380.
Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain (1894)
381.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (1876)*
382.
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain (1882)
383.
Ramayana Davi Vanamali
384.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne (1870)*
385.
A Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne (1864)
386.
Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne (1873)*
387.
From the Earth to the Moon Jules Verne (1870)
388.
Master of the World Jules Verne (1904)
389.
Michael Strogoff Jules Verne (1876)
390.
Mysterious Island Jules Verne (1874)
391.
Off on a Comet Jules Verne (1874)
392.
Robur the Conqueror Jules Verne (1886)
393.
Tigers and Traitors Jules Verne (1880)
394.
The Aeneid Virgil*
395.
Candide Voltaire
396.
Faust Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1808/1832)
397.
SlaughterhouseFive Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
398.
The Colour Purple Alice Walker
399.
Ben Hur Lew Wallace (1880)
400.
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
401.
The First Men in the Moon H G Wells (1901)
402.
The Food of the Gods H G Wells (1904)
403.
The Invisible Man H G Wells (1897)
404.
The Time Machine H G Wells (1895)
405.
War of the Worlds H G Wells (1898)
406.
Collected Stories Eudora Welty
407.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
408.
The Mathnawi E H Whinfield
409.
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
410.
The Importance of Being Earnet Oscar Wilde
411.
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde*
412.
Our Town Thorton Wilder
413.
The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams
414.
Girls in Love Jacqueline Wilson
415.
The Story of Tracy Baker Jacqueline Wilson
416.
Vicky Angel Jacqueline Wilson
417.
Double Act Jacqueline Wilson
418.
The Virginian Owen Wister (1902)
419.
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
420.
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf*
421.
Native Son Richard Wright
422.
Swiss Family Robinson Johann Wyss (1813)
423.
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories Xun Lu
424.
The Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar
425.
The Downfall Emile Zola (1892)