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My Reading List (as of 6-4-14)

In case you were wondering on what books I plan to read in the future, here is the list of book I have so far on my To Read list and other books I have lying around my house. The list is in no particular order, but everything included are books that draw my attention enough to actually want to read it (which doesn't take much). Fair warning, it's a doozy.

"Grimm's Fairy Tales" by: The Brothers Grimm
"The Jungle Book" by: Rudyard Kipling
The Harry Potter series by: J.K. Rowling (I've only read 1-4)
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by: Mark Twain
The Discworld series by: Terry Pratchett
The entire "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by: Douglas Adams
"Wayander" by: David Gemmell
"Animal Farm" and "1984" by: George Orwell
"Brave New World" by: Aldous Huxley
"Lord of the Flies" by: William Golding
"The Time Machine", "The Island of Doctor Moreau", and "The Invisible Man" by: H.G. Wells
"Sherlock Holmes" by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Three Men in a Boat" by: Jerome K. Jerome
Any book by: Stephen King
"Number the Stars" by: Lois Lowry
"To Say Nothing of the Dog" and "Doomsday Book" by: Connie Willis
"We were Liars" by: E. Lockhart
"The Book Thief" by: Markus Zusak
"Fahrenheit 451" by: Ray Bradbury
"The Lovely Bones" by: Alice Sebold
"If I Stay" by: Gayle Forman
"Thirteen Reasons Why" by: Jay Asher
"Looking for Alaska" by: John Green
The Dresden Files by: Jim Butcher
"The Road" by: Cormac McCarthy
"The War of Art" by: Steven Pressfield
"A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by: Rebecca Sonit
"The Alchemist" by: Paulo Coehlo
"Daring Greatly" by: Dr. Brene Brown
"Fangirl" by: Rainbow Rowell
"The Secret History" by:Donna Tartt
"The Rules of Attraction" by: Bret Easton Ellis
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by: Milan Kundera
"Wise Blood" by: Flannery O'Connor
"The Moviegoer" by: Walker Percy
"The Autobiography of Malcom X" by: Malcom X
"Lucky Jim" by: Kingsley Amis
"The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" by: Michale Chabon
"The Salvage Detectives" by: Robert Bolano
"Siddhartha" by: Hermann Hesse
"The Perks of being a Wallflower" by: Stephe Chbosky
"Battle Royale" by: Koushun Takami
"Of Mice and Men" by: John Steinbeck
"The Outsiders" by: S.E. Hinton
"The Murder Complex" by: Lindsay Cummings
"Congo", "The Terminal Man", and "Timeline" by: Micheal Crichton
"The Last Testament" by: Sam Bourne
"Life of Pi" by: Yann Martel
"The Tender Bar" by: J.R. Moehringer
The Night Angel Trilogy by: Brent Weeks
"Robopacolypse" by: Daniel H. Wilson
"Ursula Under" by: Ingrid Hill
"Memoir from Antproof Case" by: Mark Helprin
"Shift" by: Tim Kring
"This Wicked World" by: Richard Lange

This is the ever-growing list of books I want to read before I die. I'm open for more book suggestions!

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