I was at the library recently and saw a book called 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die by James Mustich. Of course I checked it out, so I could see if there were any books that I had on my own TBR list. Amazingly, I found out that I have already completely read 31 books from the list and partially read quite a few more. On top of that, I went and added a lot of books to my TBR list. I wanted to share my lists from this book with you.
Books I Have Read Completely
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt
- Beowulf
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience – William Blake
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
- Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
- Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- The Hours – Michael Cunningham
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K. Dick
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
- The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
- The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
- 1984 – George Orwell
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
- The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery (I actually read this one in French)
- Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare
- Macbeth – William Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- The Boxcar Children – Certrude Chandler Warner
- Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White
- Night – Elie Wiesel
- A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
Books I Have Partially Read
Some of the following books I have read for school, while others were not finished. Many of the classics listed though are from when I was younger and had a large collection of Great Illustrated Classics because I read a lot of those. However, while I did finish reading them, they were shortened versions, not the full true version.
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Awakening – Kate Chopin
- The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
- The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
- Complete Poems, 1904-1962 – e.e.cummings
- Matilda – Roald Dahl
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
- Poems – Emily Dickinson
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave – Frederick Douglass
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- Essays and Lectures – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- The Call of the Wild – Jack London
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- Paradise Lost – John Milton
- Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery
- The 9/11 Commission Report
- Poetry and Tales – Edgar Allan Poe
- The World of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
- Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
- Poems – Sappho
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
- The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sean – Jules Verne
- The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
- Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
Stay tuned next week for when I outline all the books on this list that have made it to my TBR list.
Have you checked out 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die? If so, what books have you read? What is your favourite one on the list?
You can check out the full list here.
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