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Check this blog post:

http://arkapain.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/50-first-books/

1. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Let it Snow, by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle
3. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1, by M.T. Anderson
4. Harry Potter & Imagination, by Travis Prinzi
5. Looking for Alaska, by John Green
6. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
7. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
8. The Great Gatsby*, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. 1984*, by George Orwell
10. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
11. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
12. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. Peeps, Scott Westerfeld
14. Are We There Yet? by David Levithan
15. The Last Days, by Scott Westerfeld
16. AP Chemistry, by the Princeton Review
17. AP Calculus AB, by the Princeton Review
18. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks*, by E. Lockhart
19. The Catcher in the Rye*, by J.D. Salinger
20. Suite Scarlett, by Maureen Johnson
21. Summer of ‘42, by Herman Raucher
22. The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
23. Scarlett Fever, by Maureen Johnson
24. How Harry Cast His Spell, by John Granger
25. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
26. Looking for Alaska, by John Green (second read)
27. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
28. Catching Fire
29. Catcher in the Rye
30. Repotting Harry Potter
31. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
32. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
33. Island, by Aldous Huxley
34. Flatland, by A. Square
35. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 2, by M.T. Anderson
36. Feed, by M.T. Anderson
37. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
38. Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen
39. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
40. Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen
41. The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
42. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
43. Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
44. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
45. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junat Díaz
46. Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White
47. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
48. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
49. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
50. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
51. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
52. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
53. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
54. Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
55. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
56. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
57. Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle
58. Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
59. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
60. Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
61. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
62. Dracula, by Bram Stoker
63. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
64. Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck
65. Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemmingway
66. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
67. The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks
68. 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
69. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
70. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, by J.R.R. Tolkien
71. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
72. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo
73. Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
74. The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
75. The Count of Monte-Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
76. State of Fear, by Michael Crichton
77. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
78. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
79. Blue is for Nightmares, by Laurie Faria Stolaz
80. The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
81. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
82. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
83. A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines
84. Absolutely Maybe, by Lisa Yee
85. Everything And Nothing, A Compact History of Infinity, by David Foster Wallace
86. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
87. Geektastic

Key:

Books too old for me to really read fast.
Books I have finished.
Books I’ve yet to read.
* Books I must buy or read several more times in the future