Courtesy of The Forbidden Library.I’ve marked off the ones I’ve read. It’s more than I thought. I challenge all my readers to read at least one book from this list in 2009. Post in the comments which one you choose!
- 1984 , George Orwell
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , Mark Twain
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , Lewis Caroll
- Analects , Confucious
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl , Anne Frank
- Arabian Nights or 1,001 Nights , Anonymous
- Beloved , Toni Morrison
- The Bible
- Brave New World , Aldous Huxley
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee , Dee Brown
- The Call of the Wild , Jack London
- Canterbury Tales , Geoffrey Chaucer
- Catcher in the Rye , JD Salinger
- The Celluloid Closet , Vito Russo
- Charlie & The Chocolate Factory , Roald Dahl
- Clan of the Cave Bear , Jean Auel
- The Color Purple , Alice Walker
- The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm , Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems , Galilei Galileo
- Different Seasons , Stephen King
- A Doll’s House , Henrik Ibsen
- Don Quixote , Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes
- Earth Science
- The Egypt Game , Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- Fahrenheit 451 , Ray Bradbury
- The Figure in the Shadows , John Bellairs
- Gone With the Wind , Margaret Mitchell
- Grapes of Wrath , John Steinbeck
- The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher , M.C. Escher
- Grendel , John C Gardner
- Gulliver’s Travels , Jonathan Swift
- Hamlet , William Shakespeare
- The Happy Prince & Other Stories , Oscar Wilde
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , Maya Angelou
- It , Stephen King
- James and the Giant Peach , Roald Dahl
- King Lear, William Shakespeare
- The Koran
- Le Morte D’Arthur , Sir Thomas Malory
- The Life and Times of Renoir , Janice Anderson
- A Light in the Attic , Shel Silverstein
- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe , C.S. Lewis
- Little House in the Big Woods , Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Little House on the Prairie , Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Lorax , Dr. Seuss
- The Lords of Discipline , Pat Conroy
- The Martian Chronicles , Ray Bradbury
- My Friend Flicka , Mary O’Hara
- The Odyssey , Homer
- On the Origin of the Species , Charles Darwin
- Paradise Lost , John Milton
- Raisin in the Sun , Lorraine Hansberry
- The Rolling Stone , Jim Miller
- The Satanic Verses , Salman Rushdie
- Slaughterhousep–Five , Kurt Vonnegut
- Song of Solomon , Toni Morrison
- The Stand , Stephen King
- The Talmud
- To Kill a Mockingbird , Harper Lee
- Tom Jones , Henry Fielding
- Twelfth Night , William Shakespeare
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Vasilissa the Beautiful: Russian Fairy Tales
- Welcome to the Monkey House , Kurt Vonnegut
- Where the Sidewalk Ends , Shel Silverstein
- Where’s Waldo? , Martin Hanford
- The Witches of Worm , Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
- Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings , D.T. Suzuki
So that’s 29 out of 69. 40 more books yet to read. My goal is to read Paradise Lost this year. How many have you read?
