30 Books Everyone Should Read before Their 30th Birthday

How many of these have YOU read? Source here.

1. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
   
   
2. 1984 by George Orwell - Have it, still not in the mood to go into it.
   
   
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Love this one. ✔
   
   
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - Getting past the Nadstat, otherwise still working on it.
   
   
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway - Not very likely.
   
   
6. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Ditto.
   
   
7. The Rights of Man by Tom Paine - Yep.
   
   
8. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
   
   
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
   
   
10. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
    
    
11. The Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas Merton
    
    
12. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell - already read Blink, but don't mind this too.
    
    
13. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
    
    
14. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
    
    
15. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien - skipped quite a bit. ✔
    
    
16. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
    
    
17. Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
    
    
18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
    
    
19. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    
    
20. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - read it, it's not bad. ✔
    
    
21. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - tried it, couldn't finish. Too long for me.
    
    
22. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
    
    
23. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
    
    
24. The Republic by Plato
    
    
25. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    
    
26. Getting Things Done by David Allen
    
    
27. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - read this one ages ago. Pretty relevent despite the fact that it's decades old. ✔
    
    
28. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
    
    
29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - NO STEINBECK :P
    
    
30. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
    
    
31. BONUS: How To Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
    
    
32. BONUS: Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner