My Book List, (continued)

A few months ago, I wrote a post saying that I was going to make a list of "1000 Books to Read Before You Die." I've gone through and added some new books to my list. Enjoy! :)


Young Adult Literature:
A Wrinkle In Time (and sequels), Madeline L'Engle
The Giver, Lois Lowry
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
Harry Potter (the series), JK Rowling
The Chronicles of Narnia (the series), CS Lewis
Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
new additions:
The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins
FreckleJuice, Judy Blume
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings (series), JRR Tolkein


Christian Literature:
Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis
Wild At Heart and/or Captivating, by John Eldredge
More Than Just a Carpenter, Josh McDowell
Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller
Through Painted Deserts, Donald Miller
The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel
new additions:
The Shack, William Young

American Literature:
Anthem, Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Swan House, Elizabeth Musser
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Call of the Wild, Jack London
White Fang, Jack London
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
new additions:
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway


British Literature:
London, by Edward Rutherford
Grendel, John Gardner
Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
new additions:
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Ulysses, James Joyce
Animal Farm, George Orwell
1984, George Orwell
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift



Other World Literature
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston LeRoux
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Night, Elie Wiesel
new additions:
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Madame Bovary, Gustav Flaubert
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Odyssey, Homer


Mystery/Thriller
Timeline, Michael Crichton
The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell
The Firm, John Grisham
Ender's Game &
Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card


Contemporary
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
new additions:
I Am The Messenger, Markus Zusak
The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
Outlander (series), Diana Gabaldon
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough