Books I Need To Read Before I Die

Cakes and Ale- Somerset Maugham
The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
The Golden Notebook- Doris Lessing
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
Democracy in America- Alexis de Tocqueville
Letters to Theo- Vincent VanGogh
The Interpretation of Dreams- Sigmund Freud
The Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank
Catch 22- Joseph Heller
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Member of the Wedding- Carson McCullers
The Kitchen God's Wife- Amy Tan
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy
This Boy's Life- Tobias Wolff
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked all the Pots- Susan Straight
The Yellow Wallpaper and other Writings- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat- Oliver Sacks
A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
Death of a Salesmen- Arthur Miller
East of Eden- John Steinbeck
Dracula- Bram Stoker
The Story of My Life- Helen Keller
The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
Angela's Ashes- Frank McCourt
Atonement- Ian McEwan
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress- Dai Sijie
The Color of Water- James McBride
The Devil in the White City- Erik Larson
I Capture the Castle- Dodie Smith
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
Life of Pi- Yann Martel
Reading Lolita in Tehran- Azar Nafisi
The Red Tent- Anita Diamant
We Need To Talk About Kevin- Lionel Shriver
March- Geraldine Brooks
The Year of Magical Thinking- Joan Didion
Bel Canto- Ann Patchett
The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood
Possession- A.S. Byatt
Seabiscuit- Laura Hillenbrand
All the Pretty Horses- Cormac McCarthy
American Pastoral- Philip Roth
A Civil Action- Jonathan Harr
The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison
Farther Than I Meant To Go, Longer Than I Meant To Stay- Tiffany Warren
Smilla's Sense of Snow- Peter Hoeg
The World According To Garp- John Irving
Mere Christianity- C.S. Lewis
Astrid and Veronika- Linda Olsson
The Age of Innocence- Edith Wharton
Flappers and Philosphers- F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Wrinkle In Time- Madeline L'Engle
Cold Comfort Farm- Stella Gibbons
Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
A Walk in the Woods- Bill Bryson
The Clan of the Cave Bear- Jean Auel
Rabbit is Rich- John Updike
The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera
Breathing Lessons- Anne Tyler
Out of Africa- Isak Dinesen
The Things They Carried- Tim O'Brien
Saint Maybe- Anne Tyler
The Secret Sharer and Other Stories- Joseph Conrad
Gone With The Wind- Margaret Mitchell
Humboldt's Gift- Saul Bellow
The Lord of the Rings- J.R.R. Tolkein
Ulysses- James Joyce
The Five Love Languages- Gary Chapman