Please read these before you die (hurry, you may die tomorrow)

[No particular order]

1. Bible

2. Koran

3. Torah

4. Beowulf

5. Davy Crockett

6. The Epit of Gilgamesh

7. Wild Bill Hickock

8. Kit Carson - John Abbott

9. The King of the Mountains - Edmond About

10. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

11. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

12. Watership Down - Richard Adams

13. Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus

14. A Death in the Family - James Agee

15. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

16. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

17. Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Anderson

18. Mahabharata - Anonymous

19. Njal's Saga - Anonymous

20. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer

21. Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle

22. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel

23. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

24. Emma - Jane Austen*

25. Persuasion - Jane Austen

26. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen*

27. Daniel Boone - John Bakeless

28. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin

29. Trilogy: Molly, Malone Dies, The Unamable - Samuel Beckett

30. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

31. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow

32. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Berniers

33. The Last Spike - Pierre Berton

34. Carmen - George Bizet

35. Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman

36. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton

37. Decameron - Giovanni Boccacio

38. Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges

39. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

40. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte*

41. Fang and Claw - Frank Buck

42. On Jungle Trails - Frank Buck

43. Bring 'em Back Alive - Frank Buck and Edward Anthony

44. Last Days of Pompeii - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

45. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan*

46. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

47. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler

48. Marco Polo - Donn Byrne

49. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot

50. Caesar's Conquests - Julius Caesar

51. The Stranger - Albert Camus

52. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll*

53. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

54. Poems of Paul Celan - Paul Celan

55. Journey to the End of Night - Louis-Ferdinana D. Celine

56. The Adventures of Cellini - Benvenuto Cellini

57. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes*

58. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer*

59. Selected Stories of Anton Chekov - Anton Pavlovich Chekov

60. The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekov

61. The Awakening - Kate Chopin

62. The Crises - Winston Churchill

63. The Oxbow Incident - Walter Van Tillburn Clark

64. Buffalo Bill - William F Cody

65. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

66. Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

67. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer

68. The Moonstone - William Wilkie Collins

69. The Woman in White - William Wilkie Collins

70. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad*

71. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad

72. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

73. Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimoore Cooper*

74. The Deerslayer - James Fenimoore Cooper

75. The Pathfiner - James Fenimoore Cooper*

76. The Pilot - James Fenimoore Cooper

77. The Pioneers - James Fenimoore Cooper

78. The Red Rover - James Fenimoore Cooper

79. The Spy - James Fenimoore Cooper

80. The Prairie - James Fenimoore Cooper

81. The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane*

82. Charlie and the Chocolate Facotory - Roald Dahl*

83. Matilda - Roald Dahl*

84. The BFG - Roald Dahl

85. The Twits - Roald Dahl

86. Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana Jr.

87. Inferno - Dante

88. The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin

89. Soldiers of Fortune - Richard Harding David

90. De Balzac, Honore – Old Goriot

91. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe*

92. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (1719)*

93. Conquest of Mexico - Bernal Diez Del Castillo (1632)

94. How We Think - Dewey, John

95. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

96. A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens, Charles (1859)*

97. Bleak House - Charles Dickens*

98. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1850)*

99. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861)*

100. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

101. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master - Denis Diderot

102. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin

103. Crime and Punishment - Feodor Dostoyevsky(1866)*

104. The Brothers Karamazov - Feodor Dostoyevsky

105. The Idiot - Feodor Dostoyevsky

106. The Possessed - Feodor Dostoyevsky

107. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass

108. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)

109. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle(1902)

110. The Sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle

111. The Speckled Band - Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)

112. The White Company - Arthur Conan Doyle (1891)

113. Camille - Alexandre Dumas (1852)

114. The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas (1850)

115. The Conspirators - Alexandre Dumas (1843)

116. The Corsican Brothers - Alexandre Dumas (1845)

117. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (1844)*

118. The Forty-Five Guardsmen - Alexandre Dumas (1848)

119. The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas (1850)

120. The Queen’s Necklace - (Alexandre Dumas (1849)

121. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (1844)*

122. Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas (1845)

123. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot*

124. Middlemarch - George Eliot*

125. Silas Marner - George Eliot (1861)*

126. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

127. Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson*

128. Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson*

129. Waterloo - Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian

130. Medea - Euripides*

131. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

132. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner

133. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

134. Birdsong - Sebastien Faulks

135. Magician - Raymond E. Feist

136. Bridget Jone’s Diary - Helen Fielding*

137. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding*

138. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald*

139. A Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert

140. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert*

141. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

142. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

143. The Magus - John Fowles

144. Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin(1817)

145. Arabian Nights - Anthony Galland(1704)

146. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

147. Dead Souls - Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

148. The Cossack Chief - Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (1839)

149. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

150. The Lord of the Flies - William Golding

151. Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

152. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass

153. Cleopatra - H Rider Haggard (1889)

154. King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard (1885)

155. Man Without a Country - Edward Everett Hale (1863)

156. Hunger - Knut Hamsun

157. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

158. Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy

159. Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy*

160. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Bret Harte (1870)

161. The Outcasts of Poker Falts - Bret Harte (1870)

162. The Dark Frigate - Charles Boardman Hawes (1923)

163. The Mutineers - Charles Boardman Hawes (1920)

164. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)

165. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne*

166. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

167. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

168. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

169. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

170. In the Reign of Terror - G A Henty (1890)

171. The Lion of the North - G A Henty (1890)

172. Won by the Sword - G A Henty (1899)

173. Dune - Frank Herbert*

174. The Iliad - Homer (962 BCE)*

175. The Odyssey - Homer (927 BCE)

176. The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope (1894)

177. The Covered Wagon - Emerson Hough (1922)

178. An American Tragedy - Irving Howe

179. Green Mansions - William Henry Hudson (1904)

180. Ton Brown's School Days - Thomas Hughes (1856)*

181. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

182. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (1831)*

183. The Man Who Laughs - Victor Hugo (1869)

184. Toilers of the Sea - Victor Hugo (1866)

185. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

186. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

187. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen

188. Peer Gynt - Henrik Ibsen*

189. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

190. Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving

191. The Headless Horseman - Washington Irving

192. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

193. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

194. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

195. Ulysses - James Joyce

196. The Castle - Franz Kafka

197. The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka

198. The Trial - Franz Kafka

199. The Recognition of Sakuntala - Kalidasa

200. Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant

201. The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata

202. Zora the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis

203. On the Road - Jack Kerouac

204. The Stand - Stephen King

205. Westward, Ho! - Charles Kingsley (1855)

206. The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston

207. Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling (1897)

208. Kim - Rudyard Kipling (1901)

209. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling (1894)*

210. Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence*

211. Independent People - Halldor Kiljan Laxness

212. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

213. Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi - Giacomo Leopardi

214. The Golden Notebook - Doris M Lessing

215. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C S Lewis*

216. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis

217. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren

218. The Call of the Wild - Jack London (1903)

219. The Sea Wolf - Jack London (1904)

220. White Fang - Jack London (1906)

221. The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)

222. Courtship of Miles Standish - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1858)

223. Evangeline - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)

224. The Prince - Machiavelli*

225. Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian

226. Children of Gebelawi - Naguib Mahfous

227. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann

228. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

229. Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

230. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez*

231. Mr Midshipman Easy - Captain Frederick Marryat (1836)

232. The Little Savage - Captain Frederick Marryat (1848)

233. Dap Kapital - Karl Marx

234. The Flayed Hand - Guy de Maupassant

235. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

236. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough

237. Barteby the Scrivener - Herman Melville

238. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851)*

239. Typee - Herman Melville (1846)

240. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller

241. The Crucible - Arthur Miller

242. Winnie the Pooh - A A Milne

243. Paradise Lost - John Milton

244. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

245. Tartuffe - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

246. Essays - Michel De Montaigne

247. Anne of Green Gables - L M Montgomery

248. History - Elsa Morante

249. Beloved - Toni Morrison

250. King of the Khyber Rifles - Talbot Mundy (1916)

251. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil

252. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

253. Men Against the Sea - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1933)

254. Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1932)

255. Pitcairn's Island - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1939)

256. The Hurricane - Charles Nordhoff & James Hall (1936)

257. The Octopus - Frank Norris

258. A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor

259. Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill

260. 1984 - George Orwell

261. Animal Farm - George Orwell

262. Under Two Flags - Ouida (1868)

263. Metamorphoses - Ovid

264. The Conspiracy of the Pontiac - Francis Parkman (1851)

265. The Oregon Trail - Franic Parkman (1849)

266. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak*

267. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake

268. The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa

269. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher

270. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

271. The Republic - Plato

272. The Complete Tales - Edgar Allen Poe*

273. Travels of Marco Polo - Marco Polo

274. The Scottish Chiefs - Jane Porter (1809)

275. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett

276. Mort - Terry Pratchett

277. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett

278. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett

279. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

280. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust

281. Swann's Way - Marcel Proust

282. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman*

283. The Godfather - Mario Puzo

284. Knights of the Round Table - Howard Pyle (1903)

285. Men of Iron - Howard Pyle (1891)

286. Robin Hood - Howard Pyle (1883)

287. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

288. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais

289. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Rasome

290. The Cloister and the Hearth - Charles Reade (1861)

291. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque (1928)

292. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa

293. Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand (1897)

294. Call it Sleep - Henry Roth

295. The Social Contract - Jean Jacques Rousseau

296. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J K Rowling*

297. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J K Rowling*

298. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J K Rowling*

299. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J K Rowling

300. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J K Rowling*

301. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J K Rowling

302. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

303. Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo

304. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

305. Holes - Louis Sachar

306. A Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih

307. The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger

308. Blindness - Jose Saramago

309. Lafitte the Pirate - Lyle Saxon (1930)

310. Joan of Arc - Frederick Schiller (1801)

311. William Tell - Frederick Schiller (1804)

312. The World as Will and Idea - Arthur Schopenhauer

313. Castle Dangerous - Walter Scott (1831)

314. Ivanhoe - Walter Scott (1820)*

315. Rob Roy - Walter Scott (1818)

316. The Lady of the Lake - Walter Scott (1810)

317. The Talisman - Walter Scott (1825)

318. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

319. Katherine - Anya Seton

320. Lives of the Hunted - Ernest Thompson Seton (1902)

321. Wild Animals I have known - Ernest Thompson Seton (1898)

322. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (1860)

323. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare (1600)

324. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (1603)

325. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare (1607)*

326. King Lear - William Shakespeare*

327. Macbeth - William Shakespeare (1606)

328. Othello - William Shakespeare

329. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (1597)

330. The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare

331. The Tempest - William Shakespeare

332. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw

333. The Bostan of Saadi - Sheikh Musliju-d-Din Sa'adi of Shiraz

334. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818)

335. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu

336. A Town like Alice - Nevil Shute

337. With Fire and Sword - Henry Sienkiewicz (1890)

338. Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko

339. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

340. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

341. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitseyn

342. Antigone - Sophocles

343. Oedipus the King - Sophocles

344. The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler

345. How I Found Livingstone - Henry M Stanley (1872)

346. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

347. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck*

348. The Red and the Black - Stendhal

349. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne

350. David Balfour - Robert Louis Stevenson (1893)

351. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)

352. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)*

353. The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson (1888)

354. The Master of Ballantree - Robert Louis Stevenson (1889)

355. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)

356. The Bottle Imp - Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)

357. The Beach at Falesa - Robert Louis Stevenson (1892)

358. Dracula - Bram Stoker*

359. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

360. Mysteries of Pari - Eugene Sue (1842)

361. Perfume - Patrick Suskind

362. Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo

363. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathon Swift

364. The Secret History - Donna Tartt

365. Idyls of the King - Alfred Tennyson

366. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray*

367. Abramham Lincoln - Benjamin Thomas (1952)

368. Walden - Henry David Thoreau

369. The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien

370. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - J R R Tolkien*

371. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - J R R Tolkien*

372. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - J R R Tolkien*

373. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy*

374. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy

375. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

376. The Raged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell

377. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

378. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain (1889)

379. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (1884)*

380. Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain (1894)

381. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain (1876)*

382. The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain (1882)

383. Ramayana - Davi Vanamali

384. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (1870)*

385. A Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne (1864)

386. Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne (1873)*

387. From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne (1870)

388. Master of the World - Jules Verne (1904)

389. Michael Strogoff - Jules Verne (1876)

390. Mysterious Island - Jules Verne (1874)

391. Off on a Comet - Jules Verne (1874)

392. Robur the Conqueror - Jules Verne (1886)

393. Tigers and Traitors - Jules Verne (1880)

394. The Aeneid - Virgil*

395. Candide - Voltaire

396. Faust - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1808/1832)

397. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

398. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker

399. Ben Hur - Lew Wallace (1880)

400. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

401. The First Men in the Moon - H G Wells (1901)

402. The Food of the Gods - H G Wells (1904)

403. The Invisible Man - H G Wells (1897)

404. The Time Machine - H G Wells (1895)

405. War of the Worlds - H G Wells (1898)

406. Collected Stories - Eudora Welty

407. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

408. The Mathnawi - E H Whinfield

409. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

410. The Importance of Being Earnet - Oscar Wilde

411. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde*

412. Our Town - Thorton Wilder

413. The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams

414. Girls in Love - Jacqueline Wilson

415. The Story of Tracy Baker - Jacqueline Wilson

416. Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson

417. Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson

418. The Virginian - Owen Wister (1902)

419. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

420. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf*

421. Native Son - Richard Wright

422. Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss (1813)

423. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Xun Lu

424. The Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar

425. The Downfall - Emile Zola (1892)