The Rules

I have been inundated with questions (okay one question - thanks Fabulois) about my list of books to read before I die, so I have attached what I have so far to this posting. It is definitely a work in progress, and I would welcome suggestions and recommendations.

There are a few rules to this reading adventure.

Firstly, I cannot read the list exclusively. This would be like going on a diet - a fabulous diet of nothing but chocolate - but it would still be limiting, and would no doubt get old. I would miss out on books given as gifts, or recommended by friends or even simply picked up by chance at a bookstore. That's how I got onto Jasper Fforde after all! If I don't read other authors, how will I know what else to put on the list.

So, no more than two books in a row from the list.

I guess the rest of the rules can be made up by those of us in blogspace as we go! Get on board!


100 Books To Read Before I Die

1
Harry Potter Book 7
J.K. Rowling

2
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy

3
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck

4
1984
George Orwell

5
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving

6
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins

7
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand

8
A Room With A View
EM Forster

9
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

10
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway

11
A Child Called It
Dave Pelzer

12
The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood

13
Double Vision
Pat Barker

14
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen

15
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James

16
The Mermaid Chair
Sue Monk Kidd

17
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton

18
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens

19
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens

20
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

21
Zorro
Isabel Allende

22
Amsterdam
Ian McEwan

23
Memories of my Melancholy Whores
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

24
The Fourth Bear
Jasper Fforde

25
The Surgeon of Crowthorne
Simon Winchester

26
Neuromancer
William Gibson