50 Books To Read Before I Die

I recently wrote a blog post "25 Books To Read In This Lifetime". This post was based on books which I HAVE read and thought were so good that one couldn't go through life having NOT read them.

So that got me thinking about the books that I'd like to read before I die. These are books that I've heard about here and there. From people, movies or other books. Intentionally or by accident. And some are just books that are famous worldwide and I think I should read them for myself to  see what all the fuss is about.

Without further ado, here is my list (in no particular order) of 50 books I HAVE to read before I die:

1. The Shining - Stephen King
2. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
3. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
5. Utopia - Thomas More
6. The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
7. Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy - E. L. James
8. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
9. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
10. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
11. The Chronicles of Narnia series - C. S. Lewis
12. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
13. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
14. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
15. 1984 - George Orwell
16. The Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling
17. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
18. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
19. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
20. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
21. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
23. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
24. Dracula - Bram Stoker
25. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
26. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
27. Middlemarch - George Eliot
28. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
29. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
31. Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
32. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
33. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
34. Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith
35. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
36. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
37. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
38. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
39. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
40. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
41. Watership Down - Richard Adams
42. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
43. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
44. The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
45. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
46. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
47. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
49. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
50. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rusdie