30 by 30

Here are 30 books I would like to read before I turn 30. 

  • Brothers Karamazov by Frederick Dostoevksy
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  • The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Elbow Room by Daniel Dennett
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • Magister Ludi by Herman Hesse
  • Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  • Herzog by Saul Bellow
  • The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister’s Pox by Stephen Jay Gould
  • The Ambassadors by Henry James
  • Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  • The Joke by Milan Kundera
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey
  • How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • The Chosen by Chaim Potok
  • Gorgias by Plato
  • The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  • Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
  • Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gutterson
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
  • Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  •  A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  •  Beloved  by Toni Morrison
  • Blindness by Jose Saramago
  • An Autobiographical Sketch by Benjamin  Franklin
  • Civilization and It’s Discontents by Sigmund Freud