1001 (fictional) books every person should read before they die. i’m skimming through the list and these are the ones off the top of my head that i’ve read. the more i read though, the more i realize i’m becoming a fan of non-fiction and reading fiction is getting more and more distasteful. what are some of your favourites from the list?

Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace – seen the movie, not read the book
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Contact – Carl Sagan
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
Life of Pi – Yann Martel