Wednesday, June 8, 2011

the 500 book bucket list

over the past 2 years or so, i've compiled 5 lists of books to read in my lifetime--one for novels and novellas, one for short stories, one for plays, one for (auto)biographies and memoirs, and one for other nonfiction (i.e. essays and such).  i keep telling people about the novel list in particular; i don't know why...i guess i'm really proud of it.  after looking on old AP English reading lists, getting suggestions from random groups of people, researching the complete bibliographies of some of my favorite authors (stephen king and haruki murakami feature prominently), and googling "must-read novels" on more than one occasion, i've come up with a list of 500 books total.  it was originally supposed to be a list of 300, but i increased it last month because i kept getting really good suggestions (and i'm not adding any more...i do want to finish the list on this side of heaven, after all...).  since finishing up the twilight series a couple of days ago (don't judge me), i've read 19 books out of 500--3.8% if you couldn't do that in your head (i couldn't either).  for your enjoyment, i've included the list here:

1.   1Q84 -- Haruki Murakami 
2.   Adam Bede—George Eliot
3.   The Adventures of Augie March—Saul Bellow
4.   After Dark -- Haruki Murakami 
5.   Age of Innocence—Edith Wharton
6.   The Alchemist--Paulo Coelho
7.   Alias Grace—Margaret Atwood
8.   All Quiet on the Western Front—Erich Maria Remarque
9.   All the King’s Men—Robert Penn Warren
10.  All the Pretty Horses—Cormac McCarthy
11.  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay--Michael Chabon
12.  America is in the Heart—Carlos Bulosan
13.  The American—Henry James
14.  American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
15.  American Psycho -- Bret Easton Ellis 
16.  An American Tragedy—Theodore Dreiser
17.  Anansi Boys -- Neil Gaiman 
18.  The Angel's Game -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon 
19.  Anna Karenina—Leo Tolstoy
20.  Anthem--Ayn Rand
21.  The Appeal -- John Grisham 
22.  The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz—Mordecai Richler
23.  Armies of the Night—Norman Mailer
24.  Around the World in Eighty Days -- Jules Verne 
25.  The Art of Racing in the Rain -- Garth Stein 
26.  As a Driven Leaf--Milton Steinberg
27.  The Associate -- John Grisham 
28.  Atlas Shrugged—Ayn Rand
29.  Atonement—Ian McEwan
30.  At the Mountains of Madness -- H.P. Lovecraft 
31.  Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man—James W. Johnson
32.  The Awakening—Kate Chopin
33.  Babbitt—Sinclair Lewis

The Bachman Books--Stephen King as Richard Bachman
34.  Rage 
35.  The Long Walk
36.  Roadwork
37.  The Running Man

38.  Bag of Bones -- Stephen King
39.  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress -- Dai Sijie 
40.  The Beach -- Alex Garland 
41.  The Bean Trees -- Barbara Kingsolver 
42.  Bel Canto--Ann Patchett
43.  The Bell Jar -- Sylvia Plath 
44.  Beloved—Toni Morrison
45.  The Best of Everything--Rona Jaffe
46.  Birdsong -- Sebastian Faulks
47.  Black House -- Stephen King/Peter Straub 
48.  Blaze--Stephen King as Richard Bachman
49.  Bleak House—Charles Dickens
50.  Bless Me, Ultima—Rudolf Anaya
51.  The Blind Assassin--Margaret Eleanor Atwood
52.  Blindness -- Jose Saramago 
53.  Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West -- Cormac McCarthy 
54.  The Blue Hotel—Stephen Crane
55.  The Bonesetter’s Daughter—Amy Tan
56.  The Bonfire of the Vanities -- Tom Wolfe 
57.  The Book Thief -- Markus Zusak


Bourne Trilogy -- Robert Ludlum
58.  The Bourne Identity
59.  The Bourne Supremacy
60.  The Bourne Ultimatum 
                                     
61.  Brave New World—Aldous Huxley
62.  Breakfast of Champions--Kurt Vonnegut
63.  The Brethren -- John Grisham 
64.  Brideshead Revisited—Evelyn Waugh

Bridget Jones – Helen Fielding
65.  Bridget Jones's Diary
66.  Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridge Trilogy -- William Gibson
67.  Virtual Light
68.  Idoru
69.  All Tomorrow's Parties

70.  The Bridge of San Luis Rey--Thorton Wilder
71.  The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—Junot Diaz
72.  Brighton Rock—Graham Greene
73.  The Broker -- John Grisham
74.  The Brothers Karamazov—Fyodor Dostoevsky
75.  Buddenbrooks--Thomas Mann
76.  By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept--Paulo Coehlo
77.  Call It Sleep—Henry Roth
78.  Candide—Voltaire
79.  Cannery Row—John Steinbeck
80.  Cat’s Eye-- Margaret Atwood
81.  Cat's Cradle—Kurt Vonnegut
82.  Cell--Stephen King
83.  The Centaur—John Updike
84.  Ceremony—Leslie Marmon Silko
85.  Cereus Blooms at Night--Shani Mootoo
86.  The Chamber -- John Grisham
87.  Choke -- Chuck Palahniuk 
88.  Christine--Stephen King
Chronicles of Narnia—C.S. Lewis
89.  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
90.  Prince Caspian
91.  The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
92.  The Silver Chair
93.  The Horse and His Boy
94.  The Magician's Nephew
95.  The Last Battle
96.   The Client -- John Grisham 
97.   A Clockwork Orange—Anthony Burgess 
98.   Cloud Atlas -- David Mitchell 
99.   The Colorado Kid--Stephen King
100.  Coming Through Slaughter—Michael Ondaatje
101.  A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole 
102.  The Confession -- John Grisham 
103.  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court—Mark Twain
104.  Constant Gardener--John le Carré
105.  The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen 
106.  Correlli’s Mandolin--Louis de Bernieres
107Crooked Little Vein -- Warren Ellis 
108.  The Crossing—Cormac McCarthy
109.  Cry, the Beloved Country—Alan Paton
110.  The Crying of Lot 49—Thomas Pynchon
111.  Cryptonomicon--Neal Stephenson
112.  Cujo--Stephen King
113.  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time—Mark Haddon
114.   Daisy Miller-- Henry James
115.   Dance Dance Dance -- Haruki Murakami 
116.   The Dark Half--Stephen King 
117.   David Copperfield-- Charles Dickens 
118.   The Dead Zone--Stephen King
119.   Dead Until Dark -- Charlaine Harris 
120.   Death Comes for the Archbishop—Willa Cather
121.   A Death in the Family—James Agee
122.   Death of Ivan Ilyich—Leo Tolstoy 
123.   Delta Wedding—Eudora Welty
124.   Demian -- Herman Hesse 
125.   Desperation -- Stephen King 
126.   The Devil Wears Prada -- Lauren Weisberger 
127.   Diary -- Chuck Palahniuk 
128.   Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant—Anne Tyler
129.   The Diviners—Margaret Laurence
130.   Doctor Zhivago—Boris Pasternak 
131.   The Dollmaker—Harriette Louisa Arnow
132.   Dolores Claiborne--Stephen King 
133.   Don Quixote—Miguel Cervantes 
134.   Down and Out in Paris and London—George Orwell
135.   Dreamcatcher--Stephen King
136.   Duma Key--Stephen King
137.   East of Eden—John Steinbeck
138.   Egalia’s Daughters--Gerd Brantenberg
139.   The Elegance of the Hedgehog -- Muriel Barbery 
140.   Emma—Jane Austen
141.   The Emperor of Ocean Park--Stephen L. Carter
142.    Empire Falls -- Richard Russo 
143.    The English Patient -- Michael Ondaatje 
144.    The Enormous Room--e. e. cummings
145.    Ethan Frome-Edith Wharton
146.    Even Cowgirls Get the Blues—Tom Robbins 
147.    Everything is Illuminated—Jonathan Safran Foer
148.    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close--Jonathan Safran Foer
149.    The Eyre Affair -- Jasper Fforde
150.    The Fall—Albert Camus
151.    Far From the Madding Crowd—Thomas Hardy
152.    Fathers and Sons—Ivan Turgenev
153.    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- Hunter Thompson 
154.    Feather Crowns—Bobbie Ann Mason
155.    Fifth Business—Robertson Davies
156.    Fight Club -- Chuck Palahniuk 
157.    Firestarter--Stephen King
158.    The Firm -- John Grisham 
159.    The Five People You Meet in Heaven -- Mitch Albom 
160.    Flowers for Algernon--Daniel Keyes
161.    For Whom the Bell Tolls—Ernest Hemingway
162.    Foucault's Pendulum -- Umberto Eco 
163.    Frankenstein—Mary Shelley 
164.    Freedom -- Jonathan Franzen
165.    The French Lieutenant’s Woman—John Fowles

The Friday Night Knitting Club -- Kate Jacobs
166.    The Friday Night Knitting Club
167.    Knit Two
168.    Knit the Season

169.    From a Buick 8 -- Stephen King 
170.    The Gargoyle -- Andrew Davidson 
171.    A Gathering of Old Men—Ernest Gaines
172.    A Gesture Life—Chang Rae Lee
173.    The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon--Stephen King
174.    Girl with a Pearl Earring -- Tracy Chevalier 
175.    Go Tell it On the Mountain—James Baldwin
176.    The God of Small Things--Arundhati Roy
177.    The Gods Themselves--Isaac Asimov
178.    Going After Cacciato—Tim O’Brien
179.    Gone with the Wind--Margaret Mitchell 
180.    Good Omens--Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
181.    The Good Soldier—Ford Maddox Ford
182.    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society -- Mary Ann Shaffer 
183.    Gulliver’s Travels—Jonathan Swift
184.    Half of a Yellow Sun -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
185.    The Handmaid’s Tale-- Margaret Atwood 
186.    Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World -- Haruki Murakami 
187.    Hard Times-- Charles Dickens 
188.    Haunted -- Chuck Palahniuk 
189.    Hear the Wind Sing -- Haruki Murakami 
190.    Heart of the Matter-- Graham Greene 
191.    The Help -- Kathryn Stockett 
192.    Her Fearful Symmetry -- Audrey Niffenegger
193.    High Fidelity—Nick Hornby
194.    The Historian -- Elizabeth Kostova 
195.    The History of Love--Nicole Krauss

Hitchhiker's Guide -- Douglas Adams
196.    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
197.    The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
198.    Life, the Universe and Everything
199.    So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
200.    Mostly Harmless
201.    And Another Thing...

202.    A Home at the End of the World –Michael Cunningham
203.    Homecoming—Cynthia Voigt
204.    The Hours--Michael Cunningham
205.    House Made of Dawn—N. Scott Momaday
206.    House of Leaves--Mark Danielewski
207.    The House of Mirth—Edith Wharton
208.    House of Sand and Fog--Andre Dubus
209.    The House of Seven Gables—Nathaniel Hawthorne
210.    The House of the Spirits--Isabel Allende
211.    Howard’s End—E.M. Forster
212.    How to be Single--Liz Tuccillo 

Hunger Games Trilogy -- Suzanne Collins
213.    The Hunger Games
214.    Catching Fire
215.    Mockingjay

216.    If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler--Italo Calvino
217.    Immortality--Milan Kundera
218.    In Country—Bobbie Ann Mason
219.    In the Lake of the Woods-- Tim O’Brien
220.    In the Time of the Butterflies—Julia Alvarez
221.    Infinite Jest--David Foster Wallace
222.    Invisible Cities -- Italo Calvino 
223.    The Invisible Man -- H.G. Wells 
224.    Invisible Monsters -- Chuck Palahniuk 
225.    Ishmael--Daniel Quinn
226.    The Island of Dr. Moreau--H.G. Wells
227.    The Jane Austen Book Club -- Karen Joy Fowler 
228.    Jane Eyre—Charlotte Bronte
229.    Jasmine—Bharati Mukherjee
230.    Jitterbug Perfume--Tom Robbins
231.    Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell -- Susanna Clarke 
232.    Joseph Andrews—Henry Fielding
233.    A Journey to the Center of the Earth -- Jules Verne 
234.    Jude the Obscure-- Thomas Hardy 
235.    The Jungle—Upton Sinclair
236.    Kafka on the Shore -- Haruki Murakami 
237.    The King of Tors -- John Grisham 
238.    The Kite Runner—Khaled Hosseini
239.    The Lacuna -- Barbara Kingsolver 
240.    Lady Chatterley’s Lover—D.H. Lawrence
241.    The Last Juror -- John Grisham 
242.    The Last of the Mohicans—James Fenimore Cooper
243.    Le Pere Goriot—Honore de Balzac
244.    Les Liaisons Dangereuses -- Laclos 
245.    Les Miserables—Victor Hugo
246.    A Lesson Before Dying—Ernest Gaines
247.    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman--Laurence Sterne
248.    Life of Pi—Yann Martel
249.    Like Water for Chocolate -- Laura Esquivel 
250.    Lincoln--Gore Vidal
251.    Lisey's Story
252.    Little Bee -- Chris Cleave 
253.    Little Children -- Tom Perrotta 
254.    Locus Solus--Raymond Roussel
255.    Lolita--Vladimir Nabokov
256.   A Long Way Down-- Nick Hornby
257.    Look Homeward, Angel—Thomas Wolfe
258.    Lord Jim—Joseph Conrad
259.    Lord of the Flies—William Golding 
260.    Love in the Time of Cholera--Gabriél García Márquez
261.    Love Medicine—Louise Erdrich 
262.    Love, Rosie--Cecelia Ahern
263.    The Loved One—Evelyn Waugh
264.    The Lovely Bones—Alice Sebold
265.    Loving--Henry Green
266.    Lullaby -- Chuck Palahniuk 
267.    Madame Bovary—Gustave Flaubert
268.    The Magic Mountain—Thomas Mann 
269.    Main Street—Sinclair Lewis
270.    Mansfield Park-- Jane Austen
271.    The Master and Margarita--Mikhail Bulgakov
272.    The Mayor of Casterbridge-- Thomas Hardy
273.    The Memory Keeper's Daughter -- Kim Edwards 
274.    Men at Arms—Evelyn Waugh
275.    The Metamorphosis—Franz Kafka 
276.    Middlemarch—George Eliot
277.    Middlesex--Geoffrey Eugenides
278.    Midnight's Children -- Salman Rushdie 
279.    The Mill on the Floss—George Eliot
280.    Miss Lonelyhearts—Nathanael West
281.    Moll Flanders—Daniel Defoe
282.    Monkey Bridge—Lan Cao
283.    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress--Robert A. Heinlein
284.    Moxyland -- Lauren Beukes 
285.    Mrs. Dalloway—Virginia Woolf
286.    My Antonia-- Willa Cather
287.    My Sister's Keeper -- Jodi Picoult 
288.    The Name of the Rose--Umberto Eco
289.    The Namesake—Jhumpa Lahiri
290.    The Nanny Diaries -- Emma McLaughlin 
291.    Narcissus and Goldmund—Herman Hesse
292.    Native Son—Richard Wright
293.    Native Speaker—Chang-Rae Lee
294.    Needful Things--Stephen King
295.    Netherland—Joseph O’Neill
296.    Never Let Me Go -- Kazuo Ishiguro
297.    Neverwhere -- Neil Gaiman
298.    No Country for Old Men—Cormac McCarthy
299.    No-No Boy—John Okada
300.    Northanger Abbey-- Jane Austen
301.    Norwegian Wood -- Haruki Murakami 
302.    The Notebook--Nicholas Sparks
303.    Notes From Underground—Fydor Dostoevsky 
304.    Nothing Like the Sun—Anthony Burgess

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency -- Alexander McCall Smith
305.    The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
306.    Tears of the Giraffe
307.    Morality for Beautiful Girls
308.    The Kalahari Typing School for Men
309.    The Full Cupboard of Life
310.    In the Company of Cheerful Ladies/The Night-time Dancer
311.    Blue Shoes and Happiness
312.    The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
313.    The Miracle at Speedy Motors
314.    Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
315.    The Double Comfort Safari Club
316.    The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

317.    O Pioneers!-- Willa Cather
318.    Obasan—Joy Kogawa
319.    Of Human Bondage--W. Somerset Maugham
320.    Officers and Gentlemen—Evelyn Waugh
321.    On Chesil Beach -- Ian McEwan
322.    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich—Alexander Solzhenitsyn
323.    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—Ken Kesey
324.    One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
325.    The Optimist’s Daughter—Eudora Welty
326.    Orlando—Virginia Woolf
327.    Oryx and Crake -- Margaret Atwood
328.    Our Gang--Philip Roth
329.    Our Mutual Friend-- Charles Dickens
330.    P.S. I Love You—Cecelia Ahem
331.    Pamela—Samuel Richardson
332.    The Partner -- John Grisham
333.    A Passage to India-- E.M. Forster
334.    Pattern Recognition -- William Gibson
335.    The Pelican Brief -- John Grisham
336.    People of the Book -- Geraldine Brooks
337.    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer -- Patrick Suskind
338.    Persuasion-- Jane Austen
339.    Pet Sematary--Stephen King
340.    The Picture of Dorian Gray—Oscar Wilde
341.    Pinball, 1973 -- Haruki Murakami
342.    The Plague--Albert Camus
343.    The Pleasure of My Company--Steve Martin
344.    Pnin—Vladimir Nabokov
345.    Pocho—Jose A. Villarreal
346.    The Poisonwood Bible -- Barbara Kingsolver
347.    The Portrait of a Lady—Henry James
348.    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man—James Joyce
349.    Possession -- A.S. Byatt
350.    Power and the Glory-- Graham Greene
351.    Praisesong for the Widow—P. Marshall
352.    A Prayer for Owen Meany -- John Irving
353.    Prep -- Curtis Sittenfeld
354.    Pride and Prejudice--Jane Austen
355.    Prime of Miss Jean Brodie—Muriel Spark
356.    Prince and the Pauper—Mark Twain
357.    Princess Bride -- William Goldman
358.    Purple Hibiscus -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
359.    Push--Sapphire
360.    Q & A—Vikas Swarup

Rabbit -- John Updike
361.    Rabbit, Run
362.    Rabbit Redux
363.    Rabbit is Rich
364.    Rabbit at Rest
365.    Rabbit Remembered

366.    Ragtime—E. L. Doctorow
367.    The Rainmaker -- John Grisham
368.    The Reader -- Bernhard Schlink
369.    The Red and the Black--Roger Stendhal
370.    The Red Pyramid--Robert Riordan
371.    The Red Tent -- Anita Diamant
372.    The Regulators -- Stephen King as Richard Bachman
373.    The Remains of the Day--Kazuo Ishiguro
374.    The Road--Cormac McCarthy
375.    Robinson Crusoe—Daniel Defoe
376.    Room -- Emma Donoghue
377.    A Room with a View-- E.M. Forster
378.    Rose Madder -- Stephen King
379.    The Runaway Jury -- John Grisham
380.    'Salem's Lot -- Stephen King
381.    The Sea Wolf—Jack London
382.    The Secret Agent--Joseph Conrad
383.    The Secret History -- Donna Tartt
384.    The Secret Life of Bees--Sue Monk Kidd
385.    Seize the Day—Saul Bellow
386.    Sense and Sensibility-- Jane Austen
387.    Sent for You Yesterday—John Edgar Wideman
388.    The Shack -- William Young
389.    The Shadow of the Wind--Carlos Ruiz Zafon
390.    She's Come Undone -- Wally Lamb
391.    The Shipping News—E. Annie Proulx
392.    A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian -- Marina Lewycka
393.    Siddhartha—Herman Hesse
394.    Sister Carrie—Theodore Dreiser
395.    Slaughterhouse Five—Kurt Vonnegut
396.    Snow Falling on Cedars—David Guterson
397.    Song of Solomon—Toni Morrison
398.    Sons and Lovers—D.H. Lawrence
399.    Sophie’s Choice--William Styron
400.    South of the Border, West of the Sun -- Haruki Murakami

Space Trilogy--C.S. Lewis
401.    Out of the Silent Planet
402.    Perelandra
403.    That Hideous Strength

404.    Special Topics in Calamity Physics -- Marisha Pessl
405.    Spook Country -- William Gibson

Sprawl Trilogy -- William Gibson
406.    Neuromancer
407.    Count Zero
408.    Mona Lisa Overdrive

409.    Sputnik Sweetheart -- Haruki Murakami
410.    Startide Rising--David Brin
411.    State of Fear--Michael Crichton
412.    Steppenwolf—Herman Hesse
413.    The Stone Angel—M. Laurence
414.    The Story of Edgar Sawtelle--David Wroblewski
415.    The Street Lawyer -- John Grisham
416.    The Summons -- John Grisham
417.    Surfacing-- Margaret Atwood
418.    Survivor -- Chuck Palahniuk
419.    Swann’s Way—Marcel Proust
420.    The Swiss Family Robinson--Johann David Wyss
421.    A Tale of Two Cities—Charles Dickens
422.    The Talisman -- Stephen King/Peter Straub
423.    Tender is the Night—F. Scott Fitzgerald
424.    Tess of the D’Urbervilles-- Thomas Hardy
425.    The Testament -- John Grisham
426.    The Thirteenth Tale -- Diane Setterfield
427.    Things Fall Apart—Chinua Achebe
428.    Thinner--Stephen King as Richard Bachman
429.    A Thousand Acres—Jane Smiley
430.    A Thousand Splendid Suns -- Khaled Hosseini
431.    The Three Musketeers—Alexandre Dumas
432.    A Time to Kill -- John Grisham
433.    The Time Machine -- H.G. Wells
434.    The Time Traveler's Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger
435.    Tipping the Velvet--Sarah Waters
436.    To Kill a Mockingbird—Harper Lee
437.    To The Lighthouse—Virginia Woolf
438.    Tom Jones—Henry Fielding
439.    The Tommyknockers--Stephen King
440.     Tracks—Louise Erdrich
441.    Trainspotting -- Irvine Welsh
442.    Treasure Island—Robert Louis Stevenson
443.    The Trial—Franz Kafka
444.    The Turn of the Screw--Henry James
445.    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea -- Jules Verne

Twilight Series -- Stephenie Meyer
446.    Twilight
447.    New Moon
448.    Eclipse
449.    Breaking Dawn

450.    Typical American—Gish Jen
451.    Ulysses—James Joyce
452.    The Unbearable Lightness of Being—Milan Kundera
453.    Uncle Tom’s Cabin—Harriet Beecher Stowe
454.    Under the Dome--Stephen King
455.    Vanity Fair—William Thackeray
456.    Vicar of Wakefield—Oliver Goldsmith
457.    The Virgin Suicides -- Jeffrey Eugenides
458.    War and Peace—Leo Tolstoy
459.    The War of the Worlds -- H.G. Wells
460.    The Warden—Anthony Trollope
461.    Washington Square—Henry James
462.    Watch that Ends the Night—Hugh Maclennan
463.    Water for Elephants--Sara Greun
464.    The Way We Live Now—Anthony Trollope
465.    We Need to Talk about Kevin -- Lionel Shriver

The Wheel of Time -- Robert Jordan
466.    The Eye of the World
467.    The Great Hunt
468.    The Dragon Reborn
469.    The Shadow Rising
470.    The Fires of Heaven
471.    Lord of Chaos
472.    A Crown of Swords
473.    The Path of Daggers
474.    Winter's Heart
475.    Crossroads of Twilight
476.    Knife of Dreams
477.    The Gathering Storm
478.    Towers of Midnight
479.    New Spring
480.    A Memory of Light

481.    The White Boy Shuffle -- Paul Beatty
482.    White Fang—Jack London
483.    White Noise -- Don DeLillo
484.    White Teeth -- Zadie Smith
485.    The White Tiger -- Aravind Adiga
486.    A Wild Sheep Chase -- Haruki Murakami

Wicked Years -- Gregory Maguire
487.    Wicked: The Life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West
488.    Son of a Witch
489.    A Lion Among Men
490.    Out of Oz

491.    Wide Sargasso Sea—Jean Rhys
492.    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle--Haruki Murakami
493.    Winter in the Blood--James Welch
494.    The Winter of Our Discontent-- John Steinbeck
495.    Wise Blood—Flannery O’Connor
496.    The World According to Garp -- John Irving
497.    World War Z—Max Brooks
498.    Wuthering Heights—Emily Bronte
499.    The Yiddish Policemen's Union -- Michael Chabon
500.    You Can’t Go Home Again—Thomas Woolf

i've got a long way to go, but a lifetime to get there.

happy reading, everyone...if you want to see the other 4 lists (which are way shorter than this one, i promise), let me know.  :)  

with love,
The Bookworm

if i have my way, there will be a room like this in my house.





3 comments:

  1. i'd read the first 2 books in the series before compiling the list, and decided that i might as well finish. i said don't judge me... :P

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  2. the 500 book bucket list is currently being increased to an 1000 book bucket list, combining all 5 of my previous lists together. i had a feeling something like this would happen...

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