books to read before I graduate college =)

I made this list a while ago, but have gotten around to posting/editing it. I'm giving myself until May 2010(when I graduate college) to finish it. Please leave a comment telling me any books you recommend. Thanks =)

Start: January 5th, 2007

Books: Alphabetical by Author
( [R] are the books I'm reading. / I've read these. )

A
Things Fall Apart : A Novel by Chinua Achebe

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Agamemnon by Aeschylus
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
[R] Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Beowulf by Anonymous
The New Testament by Anonymous
Song of Roland by Anonymous
Dover Beach and Other Poems by Matthew Arnold
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

W.H. Auden: Selected Poems by W.H. Auden
Emma by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Oracle Night by Paul Auster

B

Illusions by Richard Bach

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett

Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy

Henderson The Rain King by Saul Bellow

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford
Breathe: A Novel by Anne-Sophie Brasme
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

The Way Of All  Flesh by Samuel Butler

C

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

The Path to the Spider's Nests by Italo Calvino
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol

Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather

My Antonia by Willa Cather
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever

Awakening by Kate Chopin
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Shogun by James Clavell
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer and Other Stories by Joseph Conrad
Stop-Time by Frank Conroy
The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Constain
The Last of the Mohicans by James Cooper
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

D

Fifth Buisness by Robertson Davies

The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Deliverance by James Dickey

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

The Ginger Manby J.P. Donleavy

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff
Camille by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durell

E
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Worn Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
The Wisdom of Shepherds by Rhett Ellis
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

F

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Light In August by William Faulkner

The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
Tom Jones by Henry Fieldng
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

The Magus by John Fowles

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford

Howards End by E.M. Forster
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

G

The Recognitions by William Gaddis

A Lesson Before Dying : A Novel by Ernest J. Gaines
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Lord of the Flies by William Golding

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

Loving by Henry Green

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

Nothing Feels Good by Andy Greenwald
My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
Death Be Not Proud by John J. Gunther

H
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein

Double Star by Robert Heinlein

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel

Dune by Frank Herbert

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock

Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Songbook by Nick Hornby
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard

Fear by L. Ron Hubbard

Mission Earth by L. Ron Hubbard

A High Wind In Jamaica by Richard Hughes

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley

How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

I
A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

The World According to Garp by John Irving

J
Human Oddities by Noria Jablonski

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Daisy Miller by Henry James

The Ambassadors by Henry James

The Golden Bowl by Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

From Here To Eternity by James Jones

Dubliners by James Joyce

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce

K
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Ironweed by William Kennedy

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

It by Stephen King

The Stand by Stephen King

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
[R] The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler

Extravagance by Gary Krist

L
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Goat, a Memoir by Brad Land
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Golden Notebook by Doris M. Lessing
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Small Island by Andrea Levy

Life Inside: A Memoir by Mindy Lewis

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

Greenmantle by Charles de Lint

Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint

Moonheart by Charles de Lint

Mulengro by Charles de Lint

Someplace To Be Flying by Charles de Lint

The Little Country by Charles de Lint

Trader by Charles de Lint

Yarrow by Charles de Lint

The Call of the Wild by Jack London
White Fang by Jack London

At The Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

Under the Volcano : A Novel by Malcolm Lowry

M
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

[R] Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Month Of Sundays by Julie Mars
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Property by Valerie Martin

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

[R] Atonement by Ian McEwan

Quattrocento by James McKean
Zipped by Laura and Tom McNeal
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Typee by Herman Melville
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

N
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
[R] Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

A Bend In The River by V.S. Naipaul

A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

O

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

Appointment In Samarra by John O'Hara

Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O´Neill
Unseen Companion by Denise Gosliner Oren
How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

P
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
John Dos Passos by John Dos Passos

U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

[R] My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

[R] The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

A Dance to the Music of Time (series) by Anthony Powell
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
V. by Thomas Pynchon

Q

R
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

We Are The Living by Ayn Rand

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohman

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

[R] The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

S
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger

Shane by Jack Schaefer

Sybil by Flora Schreiber
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Like The Red Panda by Andrea Seigel
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
[R] Unless by Carol Shields

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

On The Beach by Nevil Shute

Trustee From The Toolroom by Nevil Shute

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

One Lonely Night by Mickey Spillane

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Boy I Once Knew by Elizabeth Stone
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

T
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Selected Poems 1934-1952 by Dylan Thomas
Walden by Henry David Thoreau

The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
[R] A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Way We Live Now by Annthony Trollope
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper

U

V
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
Rain of Gold by Víctor E. Villaseñor
The Aeneid by Virgil
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

W
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace

All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth by Eddith Wharton
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts by Thornton Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Colors Insulting to Nature: A Novel by Cintra Wilso

The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

Heart On My Sleeve by Ellen Wittlinger
The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff
Old School by Tobias Wolff
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Native Son by Richard Wright

X

Y
W. B. Yeats: Poems by William Butler Yeats
Translations of Beauty by Mia Yun

Z
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon