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Books. There are too many in the world... Some, I am thoroughly surprised were published, others I wish there were more like them. These soft-bound skeletons clutter up my mind and my home. Hopefully one day, I will have a room able to be dedicated to my loves.

Now, there is a book among the rest of the books, 1,001 Books to Read, that compiles a list of the most influential books, or books that are deemed necessary to read. I intend to make it as far through this list as I can as the weeks, months, and years go by. To start off, I will list what on the list I have read... Then I will just have to decide where to start. As I read, I will use this site to reflect, respond, write, and respond some more on these books, and where they take me outside of their pages.



Books I Have Read (from the list):
Candide - Voltaire
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

"There is no friend as loyal as a book." - Ernest Hemingway