Reading Rainbow

Last night Kayla and I went to Books-A-Million to look around at books. Both of us have a goal this summer to catch up on reading because it is really hard to read books just for fun when you are busy meeting deadlines for assignments and constantly reading and studying for courses and tests.

While we were at Books-A-Million the topic of those lists of books to read before you die came up, and I then stated that I still had my list of books that Mrs. Heaton our Senior English teacher had given us. In Senior English we had to read 4 books throughout the year which we could choose from this list.

The list is as follows:
(all things in red print are the ones I have read)

1. Adam Bede - George Elliot
2. Age of Innocence - Wharton
3. Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
4. Andersonville - Kantor
5. Arrowsmith - Lewis
6. Babbit - Lewis
7. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
8. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
9. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
10. Dracula - Stoker
11. Future Shock - Alvin Toffler
12. Emma - Jane Austen
13. Exodus - Leon Uris
14. Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
15. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
16. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
17. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
18. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
19. The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
20. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
21. Green Mansions - W.H. Hudson
22. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
23. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
24. Hiroshima - John Hershey
25. Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur C. Doyle
26. The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
27. Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
28. Immortal Wife - Irving Stone
29. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
30. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
31. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
32. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
33. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
34. The Last of the Mohicans - James F. Cooper
35. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
36. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
37. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
38. Lorna Doone - R. Blackmore
39. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
40. Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
41. Mill on the Floss - Georfe Eliot
42. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
43. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
44. Mutiny on the Bounty - Nordoff and Hall
45. My Antonia - Willa Cather
46. O Pioneers! - Cather
47. Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
48. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
49. Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
50. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
51. Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
52. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
53. Robinson Caruso - Daniel Defoe
54. Quo Vadis - Sienkiewicz
55. The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
56. The Robe - Lloyd Douglas
57. The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
58. The Silver Chalice- Thomas Costain
59. A Single Pebble - John Hershey
60. Sister Carrie - Theodore Drieser
61. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
62. Tess of D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
63. The Three Musketeers - Dumas
64. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
65. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
66. Vanity Fair - William M. Thackeray
67. The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
68. War and Remembrance - Herman Wouk
69. Winds of War - Wouk
70. The Wail - John Hershey
71. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
72. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Also written at the end of the list were:

• The Once and Future King - T.H. White
• The Pearl - John Steinbeck
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• 1984 - George Orwell
• The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
• Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson

I also did a google search to find a list of books to read before you die, and this is what I found:

1001 Books to Read Before You Die

If anyone has any suggestions of other books to read please leave them as a comment!