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

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

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

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

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

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

97. Bleak House - Charles Dickens*

98. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1850)*

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*

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

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)*

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

213.Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi - Giacomo Leopardi

214.The Golden Notebook - Doris M Lessing

216.Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis

217.Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren

219.The Sea Wolf - Jack London (1904)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

324.Hamlet - William Shakespeare (1603)

325.Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare (1607)*

326.King Lear - William Shakespeare*

328.Othello - William Shakespeare

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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

383.Ramayana - Davi Vanamali

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)

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)