1000 Books to Read Before You Die

[Beechwell]

285. The Neverending Story - by Michael Ende
286. The Magic Mountain - by Thomas Mann
287. Het woeden der gehele wereld - by Maarten 't Hart (inexplicably apparently never translated into English)
288. The Assault - by Harry Mulich
289. A Theory of Justice - by John Rawls
290. Miss Smilla's Sense for Snow - by Peter Høeg

 

[Margil]

291. Run Baby Run - Nicky Cruz
292. Dancing The Dream: Book of Poems and Reflections - Michael Jackson

 

[dies-l]

293. Your God is Too Small by J.B. Phillips
294. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

 

[yatcup]

295: Magister Ludi (Glass Bead Game) - Hermann Hesse
296: The Fencing Master - Arturo Perez-Reverte
297: Seven-story Mountain - Thomas Merton
298: Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
299: Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
300: The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O'Connor
301: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace... - Yukio Mishima
302: The Lords of Discipline - Pat Conroy

 

[Virgil the Roman]

303:Lord of the World by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson
304:Imitation of Christ-Thomas A Kempis
305: The Sinner's Guide by Venerable Louis of Granada

 

[Boatmans Foe]

306: The Third Testament by Eklund (obscure and unheralded, it is a true hidden gem)

 

[The-Doctor]

47) Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
48) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
49) The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
50) Paradise Lost by John Milton
51) The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
52) The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
53) Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson
54) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
55) The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
56) Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
57) Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
58) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Stephen K. Dick
59) Possession - A Romance by A.S. Byatt
60) Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Do androids dream of electric sheep is actually by Phillip K Dick. A great book.


I'd say Add mayor casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Pretty much anything by William Shakespeare.

All the "Cherubs" series of books by Robert Muchamore

All the Robot books ever written by Isaac Asimov

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

Do androids dream of electric sheep is actually by Phillip K Dick. A great book.

*reddens* Of course...

Names and I - we do not get along too well. Faces? No problem. But names? Nuh-uh.

 

[Virgil the Roman]

I would put Virgil's Aeneid and the Lord of the Flies as well.

 

[The-Doctor]

*reddens* Of course...

Names and I - we do not get along too well. Faces? No problem. But names? Nuh-uh.

HAppens to me all the time....I even forget my students names sometimes!

 

[The-Doctor]

303) THe Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum

 

[Christine Joel]

The bell jar by Sylvia Plath..
1984 by George Orwell.
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood,
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

 

[utmostfaith]

WITNESSING TO DRACULA : A Memoir of Ministry in Romania by Dr. Billy Ng for sure! What a riot!

 

[singapito]

These 2 books

Evangelism and the lies we make
Amazon.com: So What Is Your Excuse eBook: Allan Dziwornu: Kindle Store

So what is your excuse.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006K5DPOW


Amazing books to read and borrow on Amazon kindle

 

[Henaynei]

Everything that stands: a trilogy of The Late Earth Chronicles
also the 4th in the series - Thy Kingdom Come - a really raucous ride of mind blowing imagination. True Biblical science fiction, written in a style reminiscent of the old masters - before the New Wave became so dominant in scic-fi that most believers had to quit reading it!

 

[singapito]

13 Things Destroying The Modern Day Christian

These are hard care facts that every Christian is guilty of

 

[singapito]

So What is Your Excuse

Do we really have to make excuses for not evangelizing?

 

[Kathryn13]

Here's my list of Non Fiction "must reads".
313. "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
314. "Unbroken : A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption", by Laura Hillenbrand
315. "Valkyrie: An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler", by Hans Bernd Gisevius
316. "The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Moloka'", by John Tayman
317. "The Zookeeper's Wife , A War Story", by Diane Ackerman
318. "Skeletons on the Zahara, A True Story of Survival", by Dean King
319. "To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa", by Pat Shipman
320. "Into Africa, The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone", by Martin Dugard
321. "In a Far Country: The True Story of a Mission, a Marriage, a Murder,and the Remarkable Reindeer Rescue of 1898", by John Taliaferro
322. "Shackleton: The Polar Journeys" by Ernest Henry Shackleton
323. "Touching the Void" by Joe Simpson
333. "Alive, The Story of the Andes Survivors", by Piers Paul Read
334. "As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Escape from a Siberian Labor Camp and His 3-Year Trek to Freedom", by Josef Martin Bauer
335. "I Escaped From Auschwitz", by Rudolf Vrba
336. "http://www.shelfari.com/books/87631/We-Die-AloneWe Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance", by David Armine Howarth
337. "Night", by Elie Wiesel
338. "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America", by Erik Larson
339. "The Last Day :Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755", by Nicholas Shrady
340. "Goodbye Is Not Forever", by Amy George
341. "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon", by David Grann
342. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", by Rebecca Skloot
343. "Ten Days in a Mad-House", http://www.shelfari.com/books/4316123/Ten-Days-in-a-Mad-House/editby Nellie Bly
344. "Fanny Crosby, The Hymn Writer", by C. Bernard Ruffin
345. "Just As I Am, The Autobiography of Billy Graham", by Billy Graham
346. "The Glass Castle", by Jeannette Walls
347. "1421: The Year China Discovered America", by Gavin Menzies





















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[Talen Ortz]

348. Grace Abounding by John Bunyan
349. How Much Land Does a Man Need? Leo Tolstoy
350. A Pair of Spectacles by Sydney Grundy

 

[ajsmith365]

The Blessing, by Allen Smith. A collection of Christian poetry and inspirational words.

Blessings

A blessing is like a flower
you never see it bloom
it just suddenly appears
with its sweet aroma
beauty and nectar.

Always on time
with its season
And always when
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God bless!