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501 Books you must read
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12-05-2011 10:46am#1Was up in TKMaxx in Carrickmines at the weekend and picked up the hardback version of this book for just under 10 euros.
http://www.amazon.com/501-Must-Read-Books-Emma-Beare/dp/0753714159
The books selected are categorised (history, scifi, biopics, modern fiction, classics etc.) and the range is vast. While you might find that some of your favourite books are missing its still got a fantastic range of books to recommend and has been compiled by serious book lovers.
Its got a page per book so you'll get a good overview of the selections.0
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Is this the list?
CHILDREN'S FICTION 1.Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 2.Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen 3.Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie 4.The Wonderful World of Oz – L. Frank Baum 5.The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle 6.The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 7.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 8.Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi 9.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 10.Sophie's World – Jostein Gaarder 11.The Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Alan Garner 12.The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 13.Children's and Household Tales – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 14.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon 15.Emil and the Detectives – Erich Kästner 16.Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling 17.The Complete Nonsense Books – Edward Lear 18.A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L'Engle 19.The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis 20.Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren 21.Dr Dolittle – Hugh Lofting 22.At the Back of the North Wind – George Macdonald 23.Nobody's Boy – Hector Malot 24.Winnie-the-Pooh – A.A. Milne 25.Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery 26.Five Children and It – E. Nesbit 27.Tom's Midnight Garden – Philippa Pearce 28.The War of the Buttons – Louis Pergaud 29.Fairy Tales – Charles Perrault 30.The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter 31.The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett 32.Northern Lights – Philip Pullman (aka. The Golden Compass) 33.Swallows and amazons – Arthur Ransome 34.Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang – Mordecai Richler 35.Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – J.K. Rowling 36.The King of the Golden River – John Ruskin 37.The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery 38.The Human Comedy – William Saroyan 39.The Misfortunes of Sophie – Comtesse de Segur 40.Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak 41.And To Think That I Saw It On Mulburry Street – Dr Seuss 42.Black Beauty – Anna Sewell 43.The Golem – Isaac Bashevis Singer 44.Heidi – Johanna Spyri 45.Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 46.The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien 47.Mary Poppins – P.L. Travers 48.Charlotte's Web – E.B. White 49.The Sword in the Stone – T.H. White 50.Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin 51.The Happy Prince and Other Tales – Oscar Wilde CLASSIC FICTION 52.The Epic of Gilgamesh – Anonymous 53.The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous 54.Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55.Old Goriot – Honoré de Balzac 56.Vathek: an Arabian Tale – William Beckford 57.Lady Audley's Secret – Mary Elisabeth Braddon 58.Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë 59.Wuthering Heights – Emil Brontë 60.The Pilgrim's Progress – John Bunyan 61.The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chauser 62.The Collected Stories – Anton Chekhov 63.The Man Who Was Thursday – G.K. Chesterton 64.Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure – John Cleland 65.The Moonstone: a Romance – Wilkie Collins 66.The Hound of Baskerville – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 67.Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 68.Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 69.The Christmas Books – Charles Dickens 70.Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens 71.Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 72.Middlemarch: A Study in Provincial Life – George Eliot 73.Tom Jones – Henry Fielding 74.The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 75.Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 76.Howards End – E.M. Forster 77.North and South – Elisabeth Gaskell 78.The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 79.The Vicar of Wakefiled – Oliver Goldsmith 80.The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene 81.King Solomon's Mines – H. Rider Haggard 82.Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 83.The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne 84.Moby Dick – Herman Melville 85.The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James 86.The Iliad – Homer 87.Les Misérables (The Wretched) – Victor Hugo 88.Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome 89.Kim – Rudyard Kipling 90.Bliss and Other Stories – Katherine Mansfield 91.Utopia – Sir Thomas More 92.Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque – Edgar Alan Poe 93.In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust 94.A Silician Romance – Anne Radcliffe 95.Clarissa – Samuel Richardson 96.Waverley – Sir Walter Scott 97.Frankenstein – Mary Shelley 98.The Red and the Black – Stendhal 99.The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 100.Dracula – Bram Stoker 101.Gulliver's Travels – Jonathan Swift 102.Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thakeray 103.War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 104.Barchester Towers – Anthony Trollope 105.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 106.Candide, or Optimism – Voltaire 107.The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole 108.The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton 109.The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 110.To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf 111.La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola HISTORY 112.London The Biography – Peter Ackroyd 113.Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life – John Lee Anderson 114.The Hour of Our Death – Philippe Aries 115.Berlin The Downfall – Antony Beevor 116.The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II – Fernand Braudel 117.The Pleasures of Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century – John Brewer 118.Frozen Desire: An Enquiry Into the Meaning of Money – James Buchan 119.Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives – Alan Bullock 120.The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy – Jacob Burckhardt 121.Daily Life in Ancient Rome – Jerome Carcopino 122.The Accursed Kings – Maurice Druon 123.The Age of the Cathedrals – Georges Duby 124.The Stripping of the Altars – Eamon Duffy 125.Rites of Spring – Modris Eksteins 126.The Wretched of the Earth – Franz Fanon 127.Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire – Niall Ferguson 128.Millennium – Felipe Fernández-Armesto 129.Pagans and Christians – Robin Lane Fox 130.The End of History and the Last Man – Francis Fukuyama 131.The Naked Heart – Peter Gay 132.The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon 133.The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy – Martin Gilbert 134.The Cheese and the Worms – Carlo Ginzburg 135.God's First Love – Friedrich Heer 136.Histories – Herodotus 137.Hiroshima – John Hersey 138.The Fatal Shore – Robert Hughes 139.Pandaemonium – Humphrey Jennings 140.A History of Warfare – John Keegan 141.A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies – Bartolomé de las Casas 142.Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Thomas Edwards Lawrence 143.Islam in History – Bernard Lewis 144.Chinese Shadows – Simon Leys 145.The Crusades through Arab Eyes – Amin Maalouf 146.The Defeat of the Spanish Armada – Garrett Mattingly 147.The Story of English – Robert Mccrum, William Cran, Robert Macneil 148.The Ornament of the World – Maria Rosa Menocal 149.The Women's History of the World – Rosalind Miles 150.Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire – Jan Morris 151.Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade – Henri Pirenne 152.Parallel Lives – Plutarch 153.Flesh in the Age of Reason – Roy Porter 154.Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution – Simon Schama 155.Leviathan and the Air-Pump – Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer 156.The Decline of the West – Oswald Spengler 157.The Trial of Socrates – Isador Stone 158.Annals of Imperial Rome – Tacitus 159.The Origins of the Second World War – A.J.P. Taylor 160.A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century – Barbara M. Tuchman 161.A People's History of the United States – Howard Zinn MEMOIRS 162.Paula – Isabel Allende 163.Journal Intime – Henri-Frédéric Amiel 164.Aubrey's Brief Lives – John Aubrey 165.Confessions – Augustine 166.Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir 167.My Left Foot – Christy Brown 168.The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini – Benvenuto Cellini 169.The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus – Cyril Connolly 170.Boy: Tales of Childhood – Roald Dahl 171.My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell 172.An Angel at my Table – Janet Frame 173.The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank 174.Journals 1889-1949 – Andre Paul Guillaume Gide 175.Poetry and Truth: From My Own Life – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 176.Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments – Edmund Gosse 177.Ways of Escape – Graham Greene 178.Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin 179.84, Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff 180.Pentimento – Lillian Hellman 181.Childhood, Youth and Exile – Alexander Herzen 182.The Diary of Alice James – Alice James 183.Memoirs, Dreams, Reflections – Carl Gustav Jung 184.Diaries 1919-23 – Franz Kafka 185.The Story of My Life – Helen Keller 186.The Book of Margery Kempe – Margery Kempe 187.I Will Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer 188.In the Castle of My Skin – George Lamming 189.A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis 190.The Towers of Trebizond – Rose Macauley 191.Journal of Katherine Mansfield – Katherine Mansfield 192.The Seven Storey Mountain – Thomas Merton 193.The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford 194.Borrowed Time – Paul Monette 195.My Place – Sally Morgan 196.Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited – Vladimir Nabokov 197.Reading Lolita in Teheran: A Memoir in Books – Azar Nafisi 198.Memoirs – Pablo Neruda 199.Portrait of a Marriage – Nigel Nicolson 200.Running in the Family – Michael Ondaatje 201.Down an Out in Paris and London – George Orwell 202.Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramahansa Yogananda 203.Diary – Samuel Pepys 204.Letters – Pliny The Younger 205.Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 206.Words – Jean-Paul Sartre 207.Journal of a Solitude – May Sarton 208.Walden – Henry David Thoreau 209.De Profundis – Oscar Wilde 210.Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson 211.Autobiographies – William Butler Yeats MODERN FICTION 212.Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe 213.Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands – Jorge Amado 214.Le Grand Meaulnes – Alain-Fournier 215.Take a Girl Like You – Kingsley Amis 216.Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson 217.Surfacing – Margaret Atwood 218.The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster 219.Tales of Odessa – Isaak Babel 220.Giovanni's Room – James Baldwin 221.The Sweet Hereafter – Russell Banks 222.The Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker 223.Herzog – Saul Bellow 224.Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges 225.Nadja – André Breton 226.The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov 227.The Naked Lunch – William Burroughs 228.Possession – A.S. Byatt 229.If On a Winter's Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino 230.The Outsider – Albert Camus 231.Auto da Fé – Elias Canetti 232.Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey 233.The Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier 234.The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter 235.What We Talk about When We Talk about Love – Raymond Carver 236.The Horse's Mouse – Joyce Carey 237.Journey to the End of Night – Louis-Ferdinand Celine 238.Soldier of Salamis – Javier Cercas 239.The Stories of John Cheever – John Cheever 240.Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee 241.Chéri – Colette 242.Victory – Joseph Conrad 243.A House and Its Head – Ivy Compton-Burnett 244.Fifth Business – William Robertson Davies 245.Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres 246.Underworld – Don Delillo 247.Seven Gothic Tales – Isak Dinesen ( also known as Karen Blixen ) 248.Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Doblin 249.Once Were Warriors – Alan Duff 250.Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 251.The Lover – Marguerite Duras 252.The Alexandria Quartet – Lawrence George Durrell 253.The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco 254.The Neverending Story – Michael Ende 255.The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner 256.The Wars – Timothy Findley 257.The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford 258.Wildlife – Richard Ford 259.A Passage to India – E.M. Forster 260.The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen 261.Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 262.The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald 263.From the Fifteenth District – Mavis Gallant 264.One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez 265.Our Lady of the Flowers – Jean Genet 266.Lord of the Flies – William Golding 267.July's People – Nadine Gordimer 268.FerdyDurke – Witold Gombrowicz 269.The Tin Drum – Günter Grass 270.Hunger – Knut Hamsun 271.The Blind Owl – Sadegh Hedayat 272.The Old Man and the Sea – Earnest Hemingway 273.The Glass Bead Game – Hermann Hesse 274.Lost Horizon – James Hilton 275.A High Wind in Jamaica – Richard Hughes 276.The World According to Garp – John Irving 277.Berlin Stories – Christopher Isherwood 278.The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 279.Ulysses – James Joyce 280.The File on H – Ismail Kadare 281.The Trial – Franz Kafka 282.It – Stephen King 283.The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera 284.The Leopard – Guiseppe Di Lampedusa 285.The Diviners – Margaret Laurence 286.Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence 287.The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing 288.The Periodic Table – Primo Levi 289.Changing Places – David Lodge 290.The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas – J.M. Machado de Assis 291.The Cairo Trilogy – Naguib Mahfouz 292.The Executioner's Song – Norman Mailer 293.God's Grace – Bernard Malamud 294.An Imaginary Life – David Malouf 295.The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann 296.Embers – Sándor Márai 297.Life of Pi – Yann Martel 298.Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham 299.The Group – Mary McCarthy 300.The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers 301.Enduring Love – Ian McEwan 302.The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima 303.A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 304.Cold Heaven – Brian Moore 305.Beloved – Toni Morrison 306.The Progress of Love – Alice Munro 307.The Sea, the Sea – Iris Murdoch 308.Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 309.A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul 310.The Third Policeman – Flann O'Brian 311.A Good Man is Hard to Find – Flannery O'Connor 312.The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje 313.Where the Jackals Howl – Amos Oz 314.The Messiah of Stockholm – Cynthia Ozick 315.Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake 316.Mr. Weston's Good Wine – T.F. Powys 317.The Nephew – James Purdy 318.Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice 319.Barney's Version – Mordecai Richler 320.Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe 321.The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth 322.The Human Stain – Philip Roth 323.The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie 324.Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo 325.Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan 326.Short Stories – Saki 327.Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 328.Staying On – Paul Scott 329.Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald 330.Last Exit to Brooklyn – Hubert Selby Jr. 331.Unless – Carol Shields 332.The Magician of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer 333.The Engineer of Human Souls – Josef Skvorecky 334.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark 335.The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead 336.The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 337.Sophie's Choice – William Styron 338.Perfume – Patrick Süskind 339.The Confessions of Zeno – Italo Svevo 340.Declares Pereira – Antonio Tabucchi 341.The White Hotel – D.M. Thomas 342.The Master – Colm Toibin 343.Felicia's Journey – William Trevor 344.The Palm-Wine Drinkard – Amos Tutuola 345.The Accidental Tourist – Anne Tyler 346.Couples – John Updike 347.The Time of the Hero – Mario Vargas Llosa 348.In Praise of Older Women – Stephen Vizinczey 349.Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 350.Voss – Patrick White 351.Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar SCIENCE FICTION 352.The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Noel Adams 353.Hothouse – Brian Aldiss 354.Brain Wave – Poul Anderson 355.I, Robot – Isaac Asimov 356.The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood 357.The Crystal World – J.G. Ballard 358.The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester 359.Who Goes There – John W. Campbell 360.The Invention of Moral – Adolfo Bioy Casares 361.Planet of the Apes – Pierre Boule 362.The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury 363.The Sheep Look Up – John Brunner 364.A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess 365.Erewhon – Samuel Butler 366.Cosmicomics – Italo Calvino 367.2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke 368.A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder – James De Mille 369.The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick 370.To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Philip Jose Farmer 371.Neuromancer – William Gibson 372.Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein 373.Dune – Frank Herbert 374.Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 375.Two Planets – Kurd Lasswitz 376.Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin 377.Solaris – Stanislaw Lem 378.Shikasta – Doris Lessing 379.Stepford Wives – Ira Levin 380.Out of the Silent Planet – C.S. Lewis 381.I Am Legend – Richard Matheson 382.Dwellers in the Mirage – Abraham Merritt 383.A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter Miller 384.Ringworld – Larry Niven 385.Time Traders – Andre Norton 386.Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 387.The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket – Edgar Allan Poe 388.The Inverted World – Christopher Priest 389.The Green Child – Herbert Read 390.The Laxian Key – Robert Sheckley 391.City – Clifford D. Simak 392.Donovan's Brain – Curt Siodmak 393.Lest Darkness Fall – L. Sprague De Camp 394.Last and First Men – Olaf Stapledon 395.More than Human – Theodore Sturgeon 396.Slan – A.E. Van Vogt 397.A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne 398.Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade – Kurt Vonnegut 399.The Island of Dr Moreau – H.G. Wells 400.Islandia – Aistin Tappan Wright 401.The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham THRILLERS 402.More Work for the Undertaker – Margery Allingham 403.Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly – John Franklin Bardin 404.Trent's Last Case – E.C. Bentley 405.Trial and Error – Anthony Berkeley 406.The Poisoned Chocolates Case – Anthony Berkeley 407.The Beast Must Die – Nicholas Blake 408.Psycho – Robert Bloch 409.Double Indemnity – James Cain 410.Thus Was Adonis Murdered – Sarah Caudwell 411.Farewell, My Lovely – Raymond Chandler 412.No Orchids for Miss Blandish – James Hadley Chase 413.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie 414.The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 415.Unnatural Expousre – Patricia Cornwell 416.The Moving Toyshop – Edmund Crispin 417.In the Last Analysis – Amanda Cross 418.Rose at Ten – Marco Denevi 419.Vendetta – Michael Dibdin 420.The Glass-sided Ants' Nest – Peter Dickinson 421.He Who Whispers – John Dickson Carr 422.The Big Clock – Kenneth Fearing 423.Blood Sport – Dick Francis 424.Quiet as a Nun – Lady Antonia Fraser 425.The Sunday Woman – Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini 426.Death in the Wrong Room – Anthony Gilbert 427.Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett 428.Suicide Excepted – Cyril Hare 429.Bones and Silence – Reginald Hill 430.A Rage in Harlem – Chester Himes 431.Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow – Peter Hoeg 432.Malice Aforethought – Francis Iles 433.Hamlet, Revenge! - Michael Innes 434.The Murder Room – P.D. James 435.The Sleeping-Car Murders – Sebastien Japrisot 436.Death of My Aunt – C.H.B. Kitchin 437.The Spy Who Came In From the Cold – John Le Carre 438.The Mystery of the Yellow Room – Caston Leroux 439.The Last Detective – Peter Lovesey 440.Final Curtain – Ngaio Marsh 441.An Oxford Tragedy – J.C. Masterman 442.The Steam Pig – James McClure 443.The Seven Per Cent Solution – Nicholas Meyer 444.How Like An Angel – Margaret Millar 445.The Red House Mystery – A.A. Milne 446.A Red Death – Walter Mosley 447.Deadlock – Sara Paretsky 448.Dover One – Joyce Porter 449.The Chinese Orange Mystery – Ellery Queen 450.The Man in the Net – Patrick Quentin 451.A Judgement in Stone – Ruth Rendell 452.Gaudy Night – Dorothy L. Sayers 453.Mr Hire's Engagement – Georges Simeon 454.The Laughing Policeman – Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö 455.The Red Box – Rex Stout 456.the Man Who Killed Himself – Julian Symons 457.A Pin to See the Peep-Show – F. Tennyson Jesse 458.The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey 459.Above the Dark Circus – Sir Hugh Walpole 460.Born Victim – Hillary Waugh 461.The Bride Wore Black – Cornell Woolrich TRAVEL WRITING 462.Travels – Ibn Battuta 463.The Scorpion-Fish – Nicholas Bouvier 464.The Road to Oxiana – Robert Byron 465.In Patagonia – Bruce Charles Chatwin 466.The Voyage on HMS Beagle – Charles Darwin 467.My Journey to Lhasa – Alexandra David-Neel 468.On the Narrow Road to the Deep North – Lesley Downer 469.The Traveller's Tree – Patrick Leigh Fermor 470.Seven Years in Tibet – Heinrich Harrer 471.Kon Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl 472.The Purple Land – W.H. Hudson 473.The Last Place on Earth – Roland Huntford 474.Video Night in Kathmandu – Pico Iyer 475.Journey to the Hebrides – Samuel Johnson, James Boswell 476.Eothen – A.W. Kinglake 477.The Seasick Whale – Emphraim Kishon 478.A Rose for Winter – Laurie Lee 479.Golden Earth: Travels in Burma – Norman Lewis 480.The Cruise of the Snark – Jack London 481.Arctic Dreams – Barry Lopez 482.The Danube – Claudio Magris 483.The Snow Leopard – Peter Matthiessen 484.Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone – Jan Morris 485.Never Cry Wolf – Farley Mowat 486.Among the Believers: an Islamic Journey – V.S. Naipaul 487.A short Walk in the Hindu Kush – Eric Newby 488.Roads to Santiago – Cees Nooteboom 489.La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West – Francis Parkman 490.Into the Heart of Borneo – Raymond O'Hanlon 491.The Travels – Marco Polo 492.Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson – Nicholas Rankin 493.Sailing Alone Around the World – Joshua Slocum 494.Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile – J.H. Speke 495.Travels with Charley: In Search of America – John Steinbeck 496.Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes – Robert Louis Stevenson 497.The Valley of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels – Freya Stark 498.The Great Railway Bazaar – Paul Theroux 499.Southern Cross to Pole Star – A.F. Tschiffely 500.A Tramp Abroad – Mark Twain 501.On Fiji Islands – Ronald Wright
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Interesting. I'll have to go through it and tick off what I've read.
Didn't know War of the Buttons was a book for one thing!
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What?! They left out The Da Vinci Code!?
Interesting list though. Thanks for posting.0
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