30 Books before 30

Inspired by this post

I saw the above post when The Cowboy and I were on our way to Mexico and I realized I had read basically zero books on the list. At 27 I think I should start doing more reading. I can’t promise I’ll complete the list by 30, but with 2.5 years to go I think I could clean out a good chunk of it.

You can find a list of the books and my progress below (see above for a link to the original post)

1. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2. 1984 by George Orwell –> finished in high school
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
6. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
7. The Rights of Man by Tom Paine
8. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
10. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
11. The Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas Merton
12. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwel
13. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham –> read as a child
14. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
15. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien –> finished when the movies came out
16. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
17. Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller –> finished in high school
19. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
21. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
22. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli –> finished in high school
23. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
24. The Republic by Plato
25. Lolita
26. Getting Things Done by David Allen
    
27. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
    
28. Lord of the Flies by William Golding –> finished in high school
    
29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    
30. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
    
31. BONUS: How To Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
    
32. BONUS: Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner
33. Bonus: The Princess Bride (because Natalie told me to)

Count as of January 4, 2011: 5/30 complete