I came across this list right after my last birthday - the big 2-7 - and I thought - hmmm...That's 10 books a year, and several of them are ones I probably need to read. So, why not? I can make a project out of it. There are a ton of these lists out there, but this one was compiled by Katherine Brooks and published on HuffingtonPost.com. So, here it goes!
1) Persuasion by Jane Austen
2) Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
3) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
4) The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
5) In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
6) Ulysses by James Joyce
7) The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
8) Middlemarch by George Eliot
9) The Sabbath by AJ Heschel
10) A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
11) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
12) My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
13) White Teeth by Zadie Smith
14) I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
15) Kurt Vonnegut, Letters edited by Dan Wakefield
16) The Symposium by Plato
17) Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
18) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
19) Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
20) Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
21) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
22) Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
23) Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
24) Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
25) Lesabendio: An Asteroid Novel by Paul Scheerbart
26) On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
27) Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
28) The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
29) Girls to the Front by Sara Marcus
30) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Here's the link if you want short descriptions of each book:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/10/books-to-read-before-you-are-30_n_7538880.html
Happy Reading!
-khl
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