Monday, March 15, 2010

inadequate

So I printed off a list of 1000 books you should read before you die. Now, I figured that had read at least 100 of them since I read about a book a week and usually don't read trashy romance novels and such. How depressing was it for me to learn that I had only read 46 books off of a list of 1000! I understand that this is only one list so in reality it is only one man's opinion of the books to read, but still. 46!!!!
On my break today I compiled a list of the 35 books I want to read this year. Let me know if you have read or own a copy of any of them that I could borrow!

The Witches Of Eastwick~Updike
No Country For Old Men~ McCarthy
The Asphalt Jungle~ Burnett
Pudd'nhead Wilson~Twain
The Postman Always Rings Twice~ Cain
Hideous Kinky~ Freud
The Manchurian Candidate~ Condon
Steppenwolfe~ Hesse
Andromeda Strain~ Crichton
Shipping News~ Proulx
Strangers on a train~ Highsmith
Ballet Shoes~ Streatfield
Dolores Clairbourne~ King
The Rabbit Omnibus~ Updike
To Kill a Mockingbird~ Lee
Breakfast At Tiffany's ~ Capote
The Bourne Identity~ Ludlum
The Shining~ King
Satanic Verses~ Rushdie
War of the Worlds ~ Wells
Sword in the Stone~ White
The Human Stain~ Roth
Midnight's Child~ Rushdie
Shame~ Rushdie
Vanity Fair ~ Thackeroy
The Red Badge of Courage~ Crane
The Three Musketeers~ Dumas
African Queen~ Forester
For Whom the Bell Tolls~ Hemingway
The Kite Runner ~ Hosseini
Master & Commander~ O'Brian
War & Peace~ Tolstoy
Candide~ Voltaire
Slaughter House Five~ Vonnegut
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner~ Hogg

the web link for the site I got the list off of is
www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction

I chose this list because it was the most current. However I do feel that it leaves some really great books off!

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