Out of this list of 1001 books that one ought to read (from this book I guess), here are the ones I have read… about 5.1%. My favorites are marked with a *.

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
2. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
3. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
4. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates*
5. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
6. The Secret History – Donna Tartt*
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
8. Them – Joyce Carol Oates*
9. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
10. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
11. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
12. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
13. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
14. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
15. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov*
16. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
17. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
18. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison*
19. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
20. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger*
21. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell*
22. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
24. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
25. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley*
26. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
27. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
28. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
29. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
30. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
32. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
33. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
34. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
35. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
36. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy*
37. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
38. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
39. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
40. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
41. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
42. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
43. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne*
44. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
45. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë*
46. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
47. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
48. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
49. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
50. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
51. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift