THE BOOK LIST - 250 Books!

Today, as promised I am posting the list of books that I made for myself to eventually acquire. Those that are crossed off have already been found. This list does not include all of the books that I already own. If you have any additions I would love to hear them! I am considering maintaining this list (crossing off acquisitions and adding as necessary) - we'll see if that pans out....

1. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. The Catcher in The Rye – J.D. Salinger

3. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4. The Republic – Plato

5. For Whom The Bell Tolls – Hemingway

6. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Wilde

7. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

8. Call of The Wild – Jack London

9. Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss

10. The Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac

11. The Illiad – Homer

12. The Odyssey – Homer

13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14. Walden – H.D. Thoreau

15. Lord of The Flies – William Golding

16. Bluebeard – Kurt Vonnegut

17. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

18. The Metamorphosis – Kafka

19. Another Roadside Attraction – Tom Robbins

20. White Noise – Don Delillo

21. Ulysses – James Joyce

22. The Young Man’s Guide – William Alcott

23. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy

24. Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

25. Steppenwold – Herman Hesse

26. The Book of Deeds of Arms & Chivalry – Christine de Pizan

27. The Art of Warfare – Sun Tzu

28. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29. Into The Wild – Jon Krakkauer

30. The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri

1) Inferno

2) Purgatorio

3) Paradisio

31. The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkien

32. East Of Eden – John Steinbeck

33. Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes

34. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

35. The Politics – Aristotle

36. Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand

37. Hatchet – Gary Paulsen

38. Animal Farm – George Orwell

39. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs

40. Beyond Good & Evil – Nietzsche

41. Moby Dick – Herman Melville

42. Essential Manners for Men – Peter Post

43. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly

44. Hamlet – Shakespeare

45. A Farewell To Arms – Hemingway

46. The Stranger – Albert Camus

47. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Dafoe

48. The Pearl – John Steinbeck

49. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

50. On the Road – Jack Kerouac

51. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

52. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

53. Fear & Trembling – Søren Kierkegaard

54. Paradise Lost – John Milton

55. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck

56. The American Boy’s Handy Book

57. Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer

58. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard

59. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky

60. A River Runs Through It – Norman F. Maclean

61. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells

62. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

63. The Count of Montecristo – Alexandre Dumas

64. Lives of the Noble Greeks & Romans – Plutarch

65. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

66. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee

67. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

68. The Histories – Herodotus

69. The Dangerous Book For Boys – Conn & Hal Iggurdon

70. Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig

71. Self Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson

72. The World According to Garp – John Irving

73. Lord of The Rings Trilogy

74. King Lear – Shakespeare

75. Othello – Shakespeare

76. Macbeth – Shakespeare

77. A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

78. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

79. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

80. Lolita – Vladimir Nobokov

81. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse

82. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

83. The Ambassadors – Henry James

84. War & Peace – Leo Tolstoy

85. The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin

86. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

87. The Wind in The Willows – Kenneth Graham

88. The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell

89. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

90. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

91. Seneca – Letters From a Stoic

92. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

93. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan

94. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

95. Sense & Sensibility – Jane Austen

96. Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen

97. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen

98. Emma – Jane Austen

99. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

100. Persuasion – Jane Austen

101. Lady Susan – Jane Austen

102. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

103. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

104. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë

105. Villette – Charlotte Brontë

106. The Awakening – Kate Chopin

107. Beloved – Toni Morrison

108. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

109. Backlash – The Undeclared War Against American Women – Susan Faludi

110. Ines of My Soul – Isabelle Allende

111. Slut! Growing Up Female With A Bad Reputation – Leora Tannenbaum

112. Intercourse – Andrea Dworkin

113. Living My Life – Emma Goldman

114. The Laugh Of Medusa – Hélène Cixous

115. The Diary of Anne Frank

116. Ain’t I a Woman : Black Women & Feminism – Bell Hooks

117. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

118. Crescent: A Novel – Dione Abu-Jaber

119. Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant – Andrea Dworkin

120. Snowflower & The Secret Fan – Lisa See

121. Reviving Ophelia: saving The Selves Of Adolescent Girls – Mary Pipher

122. How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Julia Alvarez

123. The Art & Power Of Being a Lady – Noelle Cleary

124. Harold & the Purple Crayon – Crockett Johnson

125. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

126. A Series Of Unfortunate Events #8 Hostile Hospital – L. Snicket

127. A Series Of Unfortunate Events #10 Slippery Slope – L. Snicket

128. A Series Of Unfortunate Events #11 Grim Grotto – L. Snicket

129. A Series Of Unfortunate Events #13 The End – L. Snicket

130. The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood

131. Chronicles of Narnia

132. The Cider House Rules – John Irving

133. A Prayer For Owen Meany – John Irving

134. Original Wisdom – Robert Wolfe

135. Tightwad Gazette II – Amy Dacyczyn

136. Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne

137. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

138. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

139. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

140. Of Mice & Men – John Steinbeck

141. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell

142. Little Lord Flauntleroy – France Hodgson Burnett

143. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

144. Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll

145. What Katy Did – Susan Coolidge

146. What Katy Did At School – Susan Coolidge

147. The Adventures of Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi

148. Last Of The Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

149. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

150. The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens

151. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

152. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

153. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

154. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

155. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

156. White Fang – Jack London

157. Tales of Mystery & Imagination – Edgar Alan Poe

158. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

159. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson

160. Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde – R.L. Stevenson

161. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe

162. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

163. Vanity Fair – William Thackeray

164. Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

165. Around The World In 80 Days – Jules Verne

166. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea- Jules Verne

167. The Importance Of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde

168. Wizard Of Oz – L. Frank Baum

169. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling

170. Dracula – Bram Stoker

171. Journey To The Centre of The Earth – Jules Verne

172. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton

173. The Prince & The Pauper – Mark Twain

174. The Whipping Boy

175. The Life & Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Stone

176. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand

177. Cheaper By The Dozen – Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

178. Perelandra – C. S. Lewis

179. Life With Father – Clarence Day

180. Twilight Series

181. Jean Val Jean – Solomon Cleaver

182. The Chrysalids – John Wyndham

183. The Road Less Travelled – Dr. Scott M. Peck

184. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer

185. The Sickness Unto Death – Søren Kierkegaard

186. Dr. Zhivago

187. Julius Caesar – Shakespeare

188. Little Women - L.M. Alcott

189. Islands In The Stream – Ernest Hemingway

190. Hard Times – Charles Dickens

191. Volpone – Ben Johnson

192. Romeo & Juliet – Shakespeare

193. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare

194. King Lear – Shakespeare

195. All’s Well That Ends Well – Shakespeare

196. As you Like It – Shakespeare

197. The Comedy Of Errors – Shakespeare

198. Cymbeline – Shakespeare

199. Love’s Labours Lost – Shakespeare

200. Measure For Measure – Shakespeare

201. The Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare

202. The Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare

203. Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare

204. Pericles, Prince of Tyre – Shakespeare

205. The Taming Of The Shrew – Shakespeare

206. The Tempest – Shakespeare

207. Troilus & Cressida ¬– Shakespeare

208. Twelfth Night – Shakespeare

209. Two Gentlemen of Verona – Shakespeare

210. Winter`s Tale – Shakespeare

211. Henry IV Part One – Shakespeare

212. Henry IV Part Two – Shakespeare

213. Henry V – Shakespeare

214. Henry VI part One – Shakespeare

215. Henry VI Part Two – Shakespeare

216. Henry VI Part Three ¬– Shakespeare

217. Henry VIII – Shakespeare

218. King John – Shakespeare

219. Richard II ¬– Shakespeare

220. Richard III – Shakespeare

221. Antony and Cleopatra – Shakespeare

222. Coriolanus – Shakespeare

223. Timon of Athens - Shakespeare

224. Titus Adronicus – Shakespeare

225. The Sonnets – Shakespeare

226. A Lover`s Complaint – Shakespeare

227. The Rape of Lucrece – Shakespeare

228. Venus and Adonis – Shakespeare

229. Funeral Elegy by W.S. – Shakespeare

230. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie

231. Heidi`s Lehr- und Wanderjahre – Johanna Spyri

232. Heidi (auf Deutsch) – Johanna Spyri

233. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson

234. The Girl Who Played With Fire – Stieg Larsson

235. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest – Stieg Larsson

236. A Brief History Of Time – Stephen Hawking

237. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

238. Where The Wild Things Are

239. The Old Man and The Sea – Ernest Hemingway

240. Oedipus Rex – Sophocles

241. The Portrait Of a Lady – Henry James

242. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving

243. The Karamazov Brothers – Fyodor Dostoevsky

244. The Aeneid – Virgil

245. Confucius Analects – Confucius

246. Goethe’s Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

247. The Complete Grimm’s fairytales – The Brothers Grimm

248. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

249. Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

250. The Road To Serfdom – F.A. Hayek

And there you have it! 250 books to add to my collection.

I hope this list will inspire you to get out and read a book.

Ciao,

NOTE: I realized today that my strikeout wasn't showing up - it has been updated - my apologies! Feb 27 2011