1000 books everyone should read

[tuberski]

A Time to Kill by John Grisham
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
Dune by Frank L Herbert
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Shining by Stephen King
The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

That's it.

[pnutz]

Holy cow, 'everyone should read Finnegan's Wake'? What percentage of human beings could actually finish that book? I'm certainly not counted in it.

And Delilah, that is not what Slaughterhouse Five is about.

[Bak]

Comedy - zippo

Crime - Thank goodness for my "Spy Novel" class in college
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

Family and self - grade school prevents the shutout
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Love - can't remember any details, only that I read 'em
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Science fiction and fantasy
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
Dune by Frank L Herbert
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Time Machine by HG Wells
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells

State of the nation - high school English strikes again
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

War and travel
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

[Shadow]

Since my last posting I've now read:

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

[pinkycook]

wow, thanks for sharing..I love to read some E-books too..

[markybritz]

I would love to read all books of Harry Potter..Giolicious Blog