1001 books

I like lists. I like making them, and then I like crossing things off. I think love of lists was developed early on in high school when using your agenda to keep track of everything was key. Everyone used different colour pens, highlighters, etc. to keep track of assignments and activities, and there was nothing better than crossing things out once they were done.

Anyway, the NYTimes had an article about a book called 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. What better list for me than that? Plus, since I'm a lit major and on a good week get through two or three books, I should be well ahead of the game, right?

Wrong. I've only read about 250 of the books on this list (even though some are really short stories or long poems). Pretty shameful, really. I better get crackin'.

I was pleased to see Carol Shields, Ford Maddox Ford, Douglas Adams and Mikhail Bulgakov on the list, for example, but there's only 1 Agatha Christie and other must reads such as Lamb, by Christopher Moore, the Diary of Anne Frank, are missing.

Here's the list.

Here's the NYTimes article.

Happy reading!