I believe I speak for everybody when I say humans love lists. What isn’t there to like about them? They can range from long collections of foods you should try to a small catalogue listing dangerous rugs you should avoid. Informative and concise, lists give just the information you need without any of the fat.
While browsing Digg earlier, I came across a list that ended with me in shock and disappointment. I am a gigantic advocate of reading. Since I was a small child, I loved to read. I have read a large variety of genres ranging from classical literature to the Warhammer 40K novels. Looking at this list, though, I am severely disappointed in myself. While I have heard of all of these books and read excerpts from most of them, I have not actually read a majority of them. I suppose I best get to reading. The list will be found after the cut, with the ones I have read in their entirety marked through.
Siddhartha By Hermann Hesse
1984 By George Orwell
To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess
For Whom The Bell Tolls By Ernest Hemingway
War And Peace By Leo Tolstoy
The Rights Of Man By Thomas Paine
The Social Contract By Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One Hundred Years Of Solitude By Gabriel García Márquez
The Origin Of Species By Charles Darwin
The Wisdom Of The Desert By Thomas Merton
The Tipping Point By Malcolm Gladwell
The Wind In The Willows By Kenneth Graham
The Art Of War By Sun Tzu
The Lord Of The Rings By J.R.R. Tolkien
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Four Quartets By T.S. Eliot
Catch-22 By Joseph Heller
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher In The Rye By J.D. Salinger
Crime And Punishment By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Walden By Henry David Thoreau
The Republic By Plato
Lolita By Vladimir Nabokov
Getting Things Done By David Allen
How To Win Friends And Influence People By Dale Carnegie
Lord Of The Flies By William Golding
The Grapes Of Wrath By John Steinbeck
The Master And Margarita By Mikhail Bulgak
Bonus: Honeymoon With My Brother By Franz Wisner