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Finished the Top 100 Books list?

May 25th, 2010, 11:38 am

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 Art Of War – Sun Tzu

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 Republic – Plato

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 CapitalismHoward 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

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