One of my plans for 2010, to read all the books listed on this metal bookmark. Yes it’s a bookmark etched with 50 wonderful books.
Here are the Fifty Classic Works from the World’s Great Writers:
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fritzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
- Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
- The Bible by Various
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Quite American by Graham Greene
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
- Money by Martin Amis
- The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
- Rebecca by Daphine du Maurier
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- On the Road by Jack Keruac
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
- The Outsider by Albert Camus
- The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- Man Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
- Gulliver’s Travels by Johnathan Swift
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Robbison Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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