This is a list of books to read, great works of literature, great works of either fiction or non-fiction, to me, I will go through these and only a few more before I will go on to read anything else. O is for “Owned”, R stands for books I have already “Read” and the rest are W referring to books which are on my “Wishlist” 
The numbering refers to nothing but the order in which they were placed on the list.
- 1984, George Orwell W
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain O
- The Art of War, Sun Tzu O
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger W
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens O
- The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown R
- Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes W
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley R
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo R
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck W
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens O
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams W
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy O
- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien W
- The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien O
- Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden W
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville O
- The Odyssey and The Iliad, Homer O
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck R
- The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway W
- The Illiad, Homer O
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez W
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen O
- Stupid White Men, Micheal Moore R
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee W
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas O
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Berniere W
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy O
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho W
- Odyssey, Homer O
- Good Night Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian W
- Ulysses, James Joyce O
14 O 13 W 5 R
Then there is the list, which I suggest to anyone with interest in politics:
- Failed States, Noam Chomsky
- The Great War for Civilisation, Robert Fisk
- Imperial Ambitions, Noam Chomsky
- The Holocaust Industry, Norman Finkelstein
- Orientalism, Edward Said
- The Politics of Dispossession, Edward Said
- Palestine, Peace not Apartheid, Jimmy Carter
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