Books I've Read: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Pt. II

While browsing the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, to see what I've read and haven't read, I found these were the ones selected which I've either read, or a parent or teacher has read to me:

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (short story collection) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

3. Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

4. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

5. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

6. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

7-8. The Bluest Eye and Beloved by Toni Morrison

9. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

10. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

12. The Death of Ivan Illyich (usually considered short fiction) by Leo Tolstoy

13. Dracula by Bram Stoker

14. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

15. Fanny Hill

17-18. Giovanni's Room and Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

19. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

20-21. The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

22. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

23. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

24. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

25-26. Lord of the Rings (3 vols. counted as one) and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein

27. The Hours by Michael Cunningham

28. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

29. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

30. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

31. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

32. Native Son by Richard Wright

33. Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice

34. Justine by the Marquis De Sade

35. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

36. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

37. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

38. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

39. A Modest Proposal (not a novel, a short satire) by Jonathan Swift

40. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

41. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

42. 1984 by George Orwell

43. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

44. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

45. The Pippi Longstocking stories (children's lit)

46. The Pit and The Pendulum (short fiction) by Edgar Allan Poe

47. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

48. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

49-50. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (short fiction) and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 

51. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

52. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

53. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I tried: As for a few other books the book recommends, I couldn't stand any part of The Color Purple and I can never get through more than a paragraph or two of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and I also gave up on Catch-22--although at least for it I can say, "I saw the movie."