Reading bucket list

My reading bucket list. Created when I was a teen. Not updated very regularly, but I try.

Fiction

  • Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en (1592)
  • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
  • Emma by Jane Austen (1815)
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (1831)
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
  • Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1862)
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1879)
  • The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1880)
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
  • Ulysses by James Joyce (1904)
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1907)
  • In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1913)
  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915)
  • The Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922)
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
  • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
  • A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929)
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
  • Journey to the End of The Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1932)
  • Burmese Days by George Orwell (1934)
  • Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
  • Animal Farm by George by Orwell (1945)
  • The Plague by Albert Camus (1947)
  • 1984 by George Orwell (1949)
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
  • The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
  • The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir (1954)
  • Lord of the Flies by William Goulding (1954)
  • Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (1955)
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
  • To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee (1960)
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
  • Island by Aldous Huxley (1962)
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
  • Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
  • Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
  • Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)
  • The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (1982)
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984)
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1985)
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)
  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1996)
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)
  • White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2000)
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2001)
  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)
  • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2002)
  • 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004)
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
  • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (2009)
  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (2010)
  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013)
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
  • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (2015)

Autobiography / Memoir

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791)
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (1845)
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
  • The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (1903)
  • The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi (1925)
  • Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (1925)
  • Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (1933)
  • The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937)
  • Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (1938)
  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl (1946)
  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
  • Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir (1958)
  • Night by Elie Wiesel (1960)
  • A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (1964)
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
  • I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing by Maya Angelou (1969)
  • Agatha Christie: An Autobiography (1977)
  • Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (1994)
  • Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (1995)
  • Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (1995)
  • Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt (1996)
  • On Writing by Stephen King (2000)
  • The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2003)
  • The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (2003)
  • The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (2008)
  • Autobiography by Mark Twain (2010)

Science

  • On the Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)
  • The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976)
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (1979)
  • Cosmos by Carl Sagan (1980)
  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman (1985)
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988)
  • The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (1999)
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2003)
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2010)
  • The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (2011)
  • What If? by Randall Munroe (2014)
  • The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)
  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson (2017)

Philosophy / Sociology

  • Republic by Plato (380 BC)
  • The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (350 BC)
  • Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (6 BC)
  • The Art of War by Sun Tzu (5 BC)
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (180 AD)
  • Utopia by Thomas Moore (1516)
  • The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)
  • Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes (1641)
  • Ethics by Baruch Spinoza (1677)
  • Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1781)
  • The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (1848)
  • On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1859)
  • Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (1886)
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (1892)
  • Being and Time by Martin Heidegger (1927)
  • A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (1929)
  • A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1945)
  • The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951)
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (1974)
  • Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder (1991)
  • Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty (2013)
  • Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty (2019)

Travel

  • The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski (1998)
  • A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (1998)
  • Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck (1962)
  • Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon (1982)
  • In Search of Captain Zero by Allan Weisbecker (2001)
  • In Pantagonia by Bruce Chatwin (1977)
  • The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux (1975)
  • A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby (1958)
  • Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger (1959)
  • Down Under/In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (2000)
  • A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (1989)
  • Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (1995)
  • Vagabonding by Rolf Potts (2002)
  • The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner (2008)

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