Finished the Top 100 Books to Read Before You Die list? Then have a look at some suggestions that other listeners have come up with. They should keep you busy for a while!
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Parliament Of Whores – P. J. O’Rourke
Snowblind – Robert Sabbag
Man’s Search For Meaning – Victor Frankl
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
The Golden Bough – James George Frazer
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
A Widow For One Year – John Irving
Damage – Josephine Hart
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Hard Times – Charles Dickens,
The Man Who Was Thursday – GK Chesteron
The Ginger Man – J.P. Donleavy
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Persig
The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
Birds Without Wings – Louis de Bernieres
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
How Many Miles to Babylon – Jennifer Johnston
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
War of the Worlds - HG Wells
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Perfume – Patrick Suskind
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Strumpet City – James Plunket
The vanishing act of Esme Lennox – Maggie O`Farrell
I Know This Much Is True – Wally Lambe
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
A Walk on the Wild Side – Nelson Algren
Secret Scripture – Sebastian Barry
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
Half of The Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Snow – Orham Pamuk
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Paulo Coehlo – The Alchemist
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
The Remains of the Day – Kizuo Ishiguro
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
The Handmaiden’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
White Tiger – Aravind Adigawas
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Under The Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
A Passage To India – E.M. Forster
The Power And The Glory – Graham Greene
The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Herzog – Saul Bellow
The Informer, Liam O’Flaherty
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Lord Of The Flies – William Golding
Ironweed – William Kennedy
The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out – Richard Feynman
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Women In Love – D.H. Lawrence
On The Origin Of Species – Charles Darwin
The Case For God – Karen Armstrong
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Sons And Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
The Gnostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels
James Joyce – Richard Ellmann
The General Theory Of Employment, Interest, And Money – John Maynard Keynes
Jude Level 1 - Julian Gough
Boy in the striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
White Teeth- Zadie Smith
Rememberance of Times Past – Marcel Proust
Walking on Glass – Iain Banks
The Rights of Man – Thomas Paine
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
The Bookseller of Kabul – Asne Seierstad
Star of the Sea – Joseph O’Connor
The Hobbit – JR Tolkien.
Homage To Catalonia – George Orwell
The Lord of The Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe- C.S. Lewis
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
When you are engulfed in flames – David Sedaris
When will there be good news? – Kate Atkinson
A Fair Maiden – Joyce Carol Oates
Magician – Raymond E. Feist.
The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordon
Paddys Lament Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred – Thomas Gallagher
A Heartbreaking Work of Stagering Genius – David Eggers
God is not Great – Christopher Hitchens
The Truce – Primo Levi
Stalingrad –Anthony Beevor
The Border Trilogy – Cormac McCarthy
The Bronski House – Philip Marsden
The Power of the Dog – Don Winslow
The Bondage of Fear – Fergal Keane
Hearts, Hands and Voices – Ian McDonald
The Watch Below – James White
Night Walk – Bob Shaw
The Charwoman’s Shadow – Lord Dunsany
Out of the Silent Planet – C.S. Lewis
Lamb – Christopher Moore
The Great War for Civilisation – Robert Fisk
By Reason of Insanity – Shane Stevens.
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism – Howard K. Bloom
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
Gates of Fire – Steven Pressfield
Ilium – Dan Simmons
Olympos – Dan Simmons
The Alexander Trilogy – Valerio Massimo Manfredi
The River King – Alice Hoffman
Killing Pablo – Mark Bowden
Forget you had a daughter - Sandra Gregory
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Dublin Pubs Life and Lore – Kevin Corrigan
The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein
Survivor – Chuck Palahniuk
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
An Unsung Hero – Micheal Smith
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
The Tesseract – Alex Garland
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Let The Great World Spin – Colm McCann
The Ghost – Robert Harris
The Sea- John Banville
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Baudolino – Umberto Eco
Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
The Vatican Pimpernel – Brian Fleming
My Life in France – Julia Child
You're An Animal, Viskovitz! - Alessandro Boffa
Cat's Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
The Butcher Boy – Pat McCabe
The Secret History By Donna Tartt
How To Be Alone – Jonathan Franzen
Amongst Women By John McGahern
The Intellectuals and the Masses – John Carey
The Sportswriter – Richard Ford
A Secret History of the IRA – Ed Moloney
Ulysses, James Joyce
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Legacy of Ashes – Tim Weiner
The Name Of The Rose – Umberto Eco
Animal Farm – George Orwell
A Room Of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man – James Joyce
The Double Helix – James D. Watson







