Wishlist/must reads

This is my own list of must read books – alphabetical by title – which will  be added to as I discover must read books

1. A gentle madness: bibliophiles, bibliomanes and the eternal passion for books, Nicholas A Basbanes
2. The alchemist, Paulo Coelho
3. A Passion for Books : A Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books,Harold Rabinowitz
4. A short history of nearly everything, Bill Bryson
5. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
6. Bird by bird, Ann Lamott
7. The book of imaginary beings, Jorge Luis Borges
8. The book thief, Markus Zusak
9. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
10. The colour purple, Alice Walker
11. The crusades through Arab eyes, Amin Maalauf
12. Eucalyptus, Murray Bail
13. Edward Lear’s book of nonsense, Edward Lear
14. Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
15. The gathering, Ann Enright
16. The God of small things, Arundhati Roy
17. Great expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Heart of darkness, Joseph Conrad
19. The historian, Elizabeth Kostova
20. The hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo
21. Labyrinth, Jorge Lui Borges
22. The library of Babel, Jorge Luis Borges
23. Mao’s last dancer, Li Cunxin
24. Midnight’s children, Salman Rushdie
25. The mismeasure of man, Stephen Jay Gould
26. The name of the rose, Umberto Eco
27. Nine parts of desire, Geraldine Brooks
28. One hundred years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
29. The polished hoe, Austin Clarke
30. Pride and prejudice, Jane Austen
31. The red tent, Anita Diamant
32. A thousand splendid suns, Khalid Hosseini
33. The time travelers wife, Audrey Niffenegger
34. Things fall apart, Chinua Achebe
35. Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
36. Ulysses, James Joyce
37. Voices from slavery: 100 authentic slave narratives, Norman Yetman
38. Voyage around the world, James Holman
39. War and Peace, Tolstoy
40. War of the Worlds, HG Wells
41. Wuthering heights, Emile Bronte