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I recently purchased a stainless steel bookmark from Waterstones which has, etched into it, 50 books to read before you die. I've read a few on the list but I've set it as a challenge to myself to see if I can read all 50 books. Yay, challenge! BRING IT. :)
  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 Scott Fitzgerald
  13. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  14. The Bell Jar by Sylvie Plath
  15. Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
  16. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
  17. Don Quixote by Miduel 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 Faulke
  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 Caroll
  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 colour Purple by Alice Walker
  37. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  38. Frankenstein by Mary Selley
  39. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
  40. Man without Woman 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 Cockoo'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