Books to read before I die

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<p>In recent memory.</p>

<p>Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetze
Love Medicine - Louise Erlich
The White Hotel - DM Thomas
Bel Canto - Ann Padgett
All the books by Dorothy Dunnett
All the books by Martha Grimes
Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Sophie’s Choice - William Styron
The Tax Inspector - Peter Carey
Galatea 2.0 - Richard Powers</p>

<p>From a long time ago:</p>

<p>Romeo and Juliet
Bleak House
Montaigne
Huis Clos (No Exit)
Paradise Lost
Everything by Vladimir Nabokov</p>

<p>I live to read. Reading to me comes right after the three activities necessary for the survival of the human race. I will leave you to guess what those are.</p>

<p>If I weren’t close to 50 I could remember the rest.</p>

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<p>mini - adore the Mahabharata! My favorite line:</p>

<p>“None are ever born, nor do they die. Therefore fight, Arjuna.”</p>

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<p>I third Bel Canto.</p>

<p>I’m taking notes on this list…</p>

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<p>Anything by P.G. Wodehouse. Funniest social satire ever. </p>

<p>The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer. One of my favorites.</p>

<pre><code>If you live in SoCal read “A Year in Van Nuys” by Sandra Tsing Loh. Hilarious
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<p>Not a classic, but funny summertime reading—I just read “The Devil Wears Prada” and enjoyed it. If you are from the NYC area I would imagine that it would be even more enjoyable.</p>

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<p>“I hope they serve beer in hell” -Tucker Max</p>

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<p>Tess of the d’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (favorite book ever!)
ANY Virginia Woolf
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emma Orczy
Paradise Lost - Milton
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
any Baudelaire (if you like poetry)</p>

<p>I actually had to stop reading Bel Canto because I got bored. I thought Things Fall Apart was boring, too. Oh well. This thread is full of other great suggestions.</p>