55 Books I Plan to Read in My Lifetime

Inspired by all those “50/100/1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die” lists all over the internet, I have made my own. It is comprised mainly of books I found to be on more than one of those lists. I chose books that I thought I had a reasonably good chance of enjoying, and therefore, finishing.

1. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
3. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
4. Beowulf by Anonymous
5. Lord of the Flies by WIlliam Golding
6. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
7. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
10. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
11. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone by JK Rowling
12. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
13. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
14. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
15. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
16. Grendel by John Gardner
17. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
18. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
19. The Bible
20. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
21. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis
22. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
23. Charlotte’s Web by EB White
24. Of Mice and Men by Jon Steinbeck
25. Anna Karenina by Leo Tosltoy
26. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
27. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
28. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
29. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
30. 1984 by George Orwell
31. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
32. Siddartha by Harmann Hesse
33. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
34. Slaughterhosue Five by Kurt Vonnegut
35. Animal Farm by George Orwell
36. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
37. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
38. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
39. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
40. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
41. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
42. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
43. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
44. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
45. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
46. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
47. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
48. House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
49. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
50. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
51. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
52. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
53. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
54. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
55. Watership Down by Richard Adams