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[Posi]

50 Books To Read Before You Die

Wow, I really have not read a lot of these books! My only excuse is that I have read around 6 of the novels I have not crossed out, I just want to read them again to fully appreciate, for example, His Dark Materials.

1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
2 1984 by George Orwell
3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
5 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
9 The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
10 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
11 A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
12 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
14 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
15 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
16 The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
17 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
18 The Bible by Various
19 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
20 Ulysses by James Joyce
21 The quiet American by Graham Greene
22 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
23 Money by Martin Amis
24 Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
25 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
26 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
27 His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
28 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
29 Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
30 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
31 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
32 On the Road by Jack Kerouac
33 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
34 The Way We Live Now by Antony Trollope
35 The Outsider by Albert Camus
36 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
37 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
38 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
39 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
40 Man without Women by Ernest Hemingway
41 Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift
42 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
43 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
44 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
45 One flew over the Cuckoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey
46 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
47 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
48 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
49 The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
50 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[Posi]

1) The Great Gatsby

I finished the Great Gatsby recently for school, and it was absolute amazing. By far the best book I've read this year. This is my review of it:

The Great Gatsby is by far one of the best books I have ever read. I hate it and love it so much, which I do believe says something. I love how people have different reactions to the novel. At the end of it, I actually did like the characters of Nick and Gatsby.

What makes this book so such a great novel about the American Dream is that it wasn't written for the purpose of being one. Fitzgerald was genuinely writing about what he knew and saw, it's interesting to learn that he based some of the characters and the plot after his own life. Besides the engaging plot, the book was just written so beautifully well. I just finished it, but I have to read it again right away because I can not let go of that wonderful prose!

[Posi]

2) 1984


1984 is quite possible the best book I have ever read. I don't know if I can write a review that will do it justice. It was quite different than what I expected, of course I knew that its society was opposite to that of Brave New World , but I thought that the plot would unfold the same way.

The book is absolute terrifying. Unlike any other dystopian I have ever read, this world is something that can actually happen in our future. If communist totalitarianism really dominates the world, there is nothing we can do to stop it.

Recommended for everyone.

[Buck]

Posi wrote: "2) 1984

1984 is quite possible the best book I have ever read."

Me too

If communist totalitarianism really dominates the world, there is nothing we can do to stop it. "

There are other forms of totalitarianism besides communistic and there are things we can do to stop them.