The list of books I’ve read, from the 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die book. Whew, looks like I’ve got a ways to go before I shuffle off.
- The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
- Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
- American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
- The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
- Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
- Contact – Carl Sagan
- Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- The World According to Garp – John Irving
- The Shining – Stephen King
- Rabbit Redux – John Updike
- Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
- Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Rabbit, Run – John Updike
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
- A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Trial – Franz Kafka
- Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
- The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
- The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
Plus a bunch of others that I read in high school but I wasn’t paying much attention, so I’m not counting.