The list of ‘09

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. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks*, by E. Lockhart
  17. The Catcher in the Rye*, by J.D. Salinger
  18. Suite Scarlett, by Maureen Johnson
  19. Summer of ‘42, by Herman Raucher
  20. The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
  21. Scarlett Fever, by Maureen Johnson
  22. How Harry Cast His Spell, by John Granger
  23. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
  24. Looking for Alaska, by John Green (second read)
  25. Paper Towns, by John Green(second read)
  26. Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
  27. The Catcher in the Rye (second read)
  28. Iliad, by Homer
  29. Repotting Harry Potter, by James Watson
  30. Othello, by William Shakespear
  31. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
  32. Let It Snow (second read)
  33. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (second read)
  34. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
  35. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss
  36. Island, by Aldous Huxley
  37. Flatland, by A. Square
  38. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 2, by M.T. Anderson
  39. Feed, by M.T. Anderson
  40. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
  41. Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen
  42. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
  43. Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen
  44. The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
  45. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
  46. Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  47. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
  48. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junat Díaz
  49. Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White
  50. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
  51. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
  52. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
  53. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
  54. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
  55. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  56. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
  57. Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
  58. Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
  59. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
  60. Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  61. Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
  62. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
  63. Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
  64. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
  65. Dracula, by Bram Stoker
  66. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
  67. Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck
  68. Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemmingway
  69. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
  70. The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks
  71. 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
  72. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
  73. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, by J.R.R. Tolkien
  74. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
  75. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo
  76. Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
  77. The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
  78. The Count of Monte-Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
  79. State of Fear, by Michael Crichton
  80. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
  81. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
  82. Blue is for Nightmares, by Laurie Faria Stolaz
  83. The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
  84. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
  85. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
  86. A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines
  87. Absolutely Maybe, by Lisa Yee
  88. Everything And Nothing, A Compact History of Infinity, by David Foster Wallace
  89. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
  90. 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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