Books to Read Before I Die

Today I finished one of the books on my "To read before I die list!" I've been reading John Piper's "Desiring God" since the end of this summer and I finally finished it today! Good book- lots in it, but thought provoking. I'm slowly crossing off and rapidly adding to this list of books I want to read or have been told I need to read. It's an ever-growing list, but I feel very accomplished when I do get to cross off a title! So here's my list, in no particular order. I'll read them as I come across them (I just started Sense and Sensibility as I found it on my roommate's shelf). Some were recommendations, others ones I've heard of but never read, and still others are some that are in my possession but have never been read. Any you'd like to add to it? Or think I should add to it? I'm always up for new reads and this is in no way a set list!

-Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes (I haven't decided if I want to read it in Spanish or English yet. Maybe both!) (Check February 2011-English)

-One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

-Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

-In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alverez

-Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (Check May 2011)

-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

-Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (check February 2012)

-Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck (Check April 1 2011, no joke!)

-On the Road, Jack Kerouac

-Les Miserables (Unabridged), Victor Hugo

-The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkein

-The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R Tolkein (Check July 2011)

-The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkein (Check July 2011)

-The Return of the King, J.R.R Tolkein (Check August 1 2011)

-Atonement, Ian McEwan (Check June 2011- I was disappointed with this one...)

-1984, George Orwell

-All of C.S. Lewis' works (I'll enter them as I finish them instead of making a huge list of one author's works)

-Till We Have Faces (Check December 2010)
     -Mere Christianity (Check 2009)
     -Chronicles of Narnia (Check, several times!)
     -Screwtape Letters (Check June 2011)

-Just do Something, Kevin DeYoung (Check June 2010)

-East of Eden, John Steinbeck

-Faith Like Potatoes, Angus Buchan

-Don't Waste Your Life, John Piper

-Desiring God, John Piper (Check November 2010)

-Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austin (Check November 2010)
-Persuasion, Jane Austin (Check January 2012)
-Northanger Abbey, Jane Austin (Check April 2012)
-Mansfield Park, Jane Austin (Check May 2012)

-Count of Monte Cristo (Unabridged), Alaxandre Dumas

-Passion of Jesus Christ, John Piper

-Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (Check November 2010)

-The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevski

-The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy (Check December 2010)

-The Subversion of Christianity, Jacques Ellul

-Your God is too Small, JB Phillips

-Eternity in their Hearts, Don Richardson

-Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman

-The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

-Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

-We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with our Families, Phillip Gourevitch

-La sombra del viento, Carlos Ruiz Zafón (I've read it in English, but I'd like to read it in the original as well)

-Truck: A Love Story, Michael Perry

-I Would Die For You, Brent & Deanna Higgins

-Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift (check November 2011)
-Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
-Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (check March 2011)
-Stuff Christians Like, Jonathan Acuff
-Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
-A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
-Lord of the Flies, William Golding
-Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (Check August 2011)
-Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
-The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (check February 2012)
-Born To Run, Christopher McDougall
-I, Rigoberta Menchu, Rigoberta Menchu
-Paradise in Ashes, Beatriz Manz
-When Helping Hurts, Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert
-Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared M. Diamond
-The Hole in our Gospel, Richard Stearns
-My Utmost for his Highest, Oswald Chambers