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D2 posted:

Here are a 1001 books you should read before you die. Merry Christmas! 

I took the time to run through this list. I am ashamed to declare that I have read only the following:

1. Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART.
2. Margaret Atwood, THE ROBBER BRIDE.
3. Jane Austen, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
4. James M Cain, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE.
5. John Le Carre, THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD.
6. Joseph Conrad, HEART OF DARKNESS.
7. Joseph Conrad, LORD JIM.
8. James Fenimore Cooper, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS.
9. Charles Dickens, GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
10. Isak Dinesen, OUT OF AFRICA.
11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.
12. George Elliot, ADAM BEDE.
13. JG Farrell, THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR.
14. F Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY.
15. Gustave Flaubert, MADAME BOVARY.
16. EM Forster, A ROOM WITH A VIEW.
17. EM Forster, A PASSAGE TO INDIA.
18. Nikolai V Gogol, DEAD SOULS.
19. Maxim Gorky, MOTHER.
20. Graham Greene, THE POWER AND THE GLORY.
21. Graham Greene, THE QUIET AMERICAN.
22. Henry Rider Haggard, SHE.
23. Dashiell Hammett, THE MALTESE FALCON.
24. Ernest Hemingway, A FAREWELL TO ARMS.
25. Ernest Hemingway, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS.
26. Ernest Hemingway, THE SUN ALSO RISES.
27. Ernest Hemingway, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA.
28. Herman Hesse, SIDDHARTHA.
29. Thomas Kineally, SCHINDLER'S ARK.
30. Jack Kerouac, ON THE ROAD.
31. Rudyard Kipling, KIM.
32. Sinclair Lewis, BABBITT.
33. Thomas Mann, DEATH IN VENICE.
34. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA.
35. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE.
36. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, THE AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH.
37. VS Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER.
38. VS Naipaul, IN A FREE STATE.
39. George Orwell, ANIMAL FARM.
40. George Orwell, 1984.
41. Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago.
42. Erich Maria Remarque, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
43. Arundhati Roy, THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS.
44. Nevil Shute, A TOWN LIKE ALICE.
45. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH.
46. John Steinbeck, THE GRAPES OF WRATH.
47. Leo Tolstoy, WAR AND PEACE.
48. Leo Tolstoy, ANNA KARENINA.
49. Mark Twain, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN.
50. Kurt Vonnegut, SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE.
51. Evelyn Waugh, A HANDFUL OF DUST.
52. HG Wells, THE TIME MACHINE.