57/1001… not too shabby for a 22 yr old

I saw a post on Kottke.org about the 1001 Fiction books to read before you die. I was just curious how far I’d gotten… so here’s the list:

1. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foe
2. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
4. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
5. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski (kind of, I read about 3/4ths of it… haha)
6. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
7. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
8. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
9. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
10. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
11. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
12. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
13. The World According to Garp – John Irving (well i read about half of a copy left in my apt in Sydney, then realized someone cut a stash hole in the book, thereby ruining my chances of finishing)
14. The Shining – Stephen King
15. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
16. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
17. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
18. Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
19. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
20. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
21. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
22. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
24. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
25. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
26. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
27. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
28. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
29. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
30. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
31. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
32. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
33. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
34. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
35. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
36. Animal Farm – George Orwell
37. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
38. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
39. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
40. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
41. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
43. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
45. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair (excerpts read in high school class)
46. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
47. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
48. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
49. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
50. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
51. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
52. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
53. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
54. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
55. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
56. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
57. Candide – Voltaire

This is the original list if you want to size yourself up according to this guy’s standards. At the very least it makes for a good place to look for the next book to read!