Friday, March 9, 2012

My "Book-it" List Nos. 1-25

I am sure that most everyone is familiar with the concept of a bucket list, but as a librarian, I thought it would be good to generate a list of books I'd like to make sure I have read.  These are in no particular order, and contain works of fiction and non-fiction:


  1. Papillon - Henri Charriere
  2. Persuasion - Jane Austen
  3. The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) - Alex Dumas
  4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
  5. The Sword of Honor Triology - Evelyn Waugh
  6. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
  7. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
  8. Chronicles of Narnia (all seven books, I've read some) - C.S. Lewis
  9. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  10. Neuromancer - William Gibson
  11. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
  12. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
  13. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre
  14. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) - Steven Levitt
  15. John Henry Newman: A Biography - Ian Ker
  16. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
  17. The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
  18. Ulysses - James Joyce
  19. Catch-22 - James Heller
  20. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
  21. Trafficked - Kimberly Purcell
  22. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
  23. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  24. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  25. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut