Getting started

 

That's an awful title, I know. I apologize. It is really very accurate, however.

So, holidays have just started and I've downloaded a massive torrent file of ebooks (don't judge me. If you're lucky, I'll post a picture of my bookshelf later). I've basically decided I'm just going to work my way through the whole thing, all in the name of an 'education'. I'm more into science fiction and fantasy, so a lot of this will be branching out for me. I'll also be blogging books that aren't on the list, so keep an eye out. Totally open to reccomendations, as well. Anyway, here's the initial list:

1984, Orwell
A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway
A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Verne
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Joyce
A Simple Soul, Flaubert
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Carrol
Animal Farm, Orwell
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
Anthem, Rand
Atlas Shrugged, Rand
Axolotl, Cortazar
Brave New World, Huxley
Catch 22, Heller
Common Sense, Paine
Complete Original Maupassant, Maupassant
Complete Oscar Wilde Collection, Wilde
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
Dracula, Stoker
Dubliners, Joyce
East of Eden, Steinbeck
Emma, Austen
Ethan Frome, Wharton
Fahrenheit 451, Radbury
Flatland, Abbott
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
Frankenstein, Shelley
Gone with the Wind, Mitchell
Great Expectations, Dickens
Gulliver's Travels, Swift
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Angelou
Jane Eyre, Bronte
Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence
Lady Susan, Austen
Little Women, Alcott
Lord of the Flies, Golden
Love and Friendship, Austen
Madame Bovary, Flaubert
Mansfield Park, Austen
Metamorhosis, Kafka
Moll Flanders, Defoe
My Antonia, Cather
My Uncle Jules, Mauppasant
Northanger Abbey, Austen
Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey
Persuasion, Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Austen
Robinson Crusoe, Defoe
Sense and Sensibility, Austen
Sentimental Education, Flaubert
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury
Sons and Lovers, Lawrence
Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald
The Age of Innocence, Wharton
The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald
The Bell Jar, Plath
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
The Count of Monte Christo, Dumas
The Crucible, Miller
The Divine Comedy, Dante
The Fountainhead, Rand
The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
The Happy Prince, Wilde
The Idiot, Dostoyevsky
The Illustrated Man, Bradbury
The Metamorphosis, Kafka
The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
The Other Two, Wharton
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
The Portrait of a Lady, James
The Rainbow, Lawrence
The Satanic Verses, Rushdie
The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
The Stranger, Camus
The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway
The Trial, Kafka
The Virtue of Selfishness, Rand
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston
This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald
Three Musketeers, Dumas
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
Tropic of Cancer, Miller
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Verne
Ulysses, Joyce
Vanity Fair, Thackeray
Walden, Thoreau
Women in Love, Lawrence
Wuthering Heights, Bronte

A Wrinkle in Time, Engle
Apathy, Neilan
Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut
Choke, Palahniuk
Contact, Sagan
Crack Up, Christopherson
Deadeye Dick, Vonnegut
Eleven on Top, Evanovich
Ender's Game, Card
Ender's Shadow, Card
Fear and Loating in Las Vegas, Thompson
Fight Club, Palahniuk
Galapagos, Vonnegut
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire, Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Rowling
Life of Pi, Martel
Middlesex, Eugenides
Mother Night, Vonnegut
Player Piano, Vonnegut
Requiem For A Dream, Selby
Self Made Man, Vincent
Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut
Thank You for Smoking, Buckley
The Da Vinci Code, Brown
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Larsson
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlen
The Pact, Hunt, Davis, Jenkins, Page
The Passage, Cronin
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Rowling
The Virgin Suicides, Eugenides
Trainspotting, Welsh
Women, Bukowski

Heads up - these will be read in no particular order. Wish me luck!


The entire list (and more) can be found at this torrent.