30 books to read before you turn 30

One of the things that is on my 101 list is to read the 30 books to read before you turn 30. I Googled the list and a lot of the titles were some that I recognized (and read in high school). I'm putting some of them on my library queue to start on since I'll turn 30 in July!


1. Siddharta--Hermann Hesse
2. 1984--George Orwell
3. To Kill a Mockingbird--Harper Lee
4. A Clockwork Orange--Anthony Burgess
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls--Ernest Hemingway
6. War and Peace--Leo Tolstoy
7. The Rights of Man--Tom Paine
8. The Social Contract--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude--Gabriel Garcia Marques
10. The Origin of Species--Charles Darwin
11. The Wisdom of the Desert--Thomas Merton
12. The Tipping Point--Malcolm Gladwell
13. The Wind in the Willows--Kenneth Graham
14. The Art of War--Sun Tzu
15. The Lord of the Rings--J.R.R. Tolkein
16. David Copperfield--Charles Dickens
17. Four Quartets--T.S. Elliot
18. Catch 22--Joseph Heller
19. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. The Catcher in the Rye--J.D. Salinger
21. Crime and Punishment--Fyodor Dostoyevsky
22. The Prince--Niccolo Machiavelli
23. Walden--Henry David Thoreau
24. The Republic--Plato
25. Lolita
26. Getting Things Done--David Allen
27. How to Win Friends and Influence People--Dale Carnegie
28. Lord of the Flies--William Golding
29. The Grapes of Wrath--John Steinbeck
30. The Master and Margarita--Mikhail Bulgakov