The list of ‘09
Check this blog post:
http://arkapain.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/50-first-books/
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Let it Snow, by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1, by M.T. Anderson
- Harry Potter & Imagination, by Travis Prinzi
- Looking for Alaska, by John Green
- The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
- The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
- The Great Gatsby*, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1984*, by George Orwell
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Peeps, Scott Westerfeld
- Are We There Yet? by David Levithan
- The Last Days, by Scott Westerfeld
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks*, by E. Lockhart
- The Catcher in the Rye*, by J.D. Salinger
- Suite Scarlett, by Maureen Johnson
- Summer of ‘42, by Herman Raucher
- The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Scarlett Fever, by Maureen Johnson
- How Harry Cast His Spell, by John Granger
- Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Looking for Alaska, by John Green (second read)
- Paper Towns, by John Green(second read)
- Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
- The Catcher in the Rye (second read)
- Iliad, by Homer
- Repotting Harry Potter, by James Watson
- Othello, by William Shakespear
- Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
- Let It Snow (second read)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (second read)
- The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
- Island, by Aldous Huxley
- Flatland, by A. Square
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 2, by M.T. Anderson
- Feed, by M.T. Anderson
- The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
- Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen
- The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
- The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
- Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junat Díaz
- Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White
- The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
- Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
- Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
- Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
- Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
- Dracula, by Bram Stoker
- The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
- Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck
- Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemmingway
- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
- The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
- Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo
- Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
- The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
- The Count of Monte-Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
- State of Fear, by Michael Crichton
- Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
- Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
- Blue is for Nightmares, by Laurie Faria Stolaz
- The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
- The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
- A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines
- Absolutely Maybe, by Lisa Yee
- Everything And Nothing, A Compact History of Infinity, by David Foster Wallace
- The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
- 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
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