I got 25 books for my 25th birthday. I think these were the 25 (it was a long time ago) and many still have the little slip of paper telling me why they were chosen for me. Did I read them all? Or did they just gather dust over the years on my bookshelves?
- Catcher in the Rye (1951) by JD Salinger
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Catch 22 (1966) by Joseph Heller
- The Cement Garden (1978) by Ian McEwan
- High Rise (1975) by JG Ballard
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
- 1984 (1948) by George Orwell
- The World According to Garp (1978) by John Irving
- The Old Man and the Sea (1951) by Ernest Hemingway
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Live the Universe & Everything (1982) by Douglas Adams
- The Name of the Rose (1980) Umberto Eco
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque
- Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker
- Heart of Darkness (1899) Joseph Conrad
- Brave New World (1931) by Aldous Huxley
- Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
- Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
- Flowers for Algernon (1966) by Daniel Keyes
- A Year in Provence (1989) by Peter Mayle
- A Clockwork Orange (1962) Anthony Burgess
- Cider with Rosie (1959) by Laurie Lee
- The Fight (1975) by Norman Mailer
- American Psycho (1991) Bret Easton Ellis
- Generation X (1991) by Douglas Coupland
- The Thirty Nine Steps (1915) by John Buchan
I am glad to say that out of the 25 there are only three I haven't read:
- The Fight
- A Year in Provence
- All Quiet on the Western Front
They are next on my reading list.
- We Are Our Bookshelves explains why Andy Miller's 50 books in The Year of Reading Dangerously inspired me to figure out the list of 25 books I had when I was 25.
- Reflection on Reading is a post on what I've been reading since I started this blog in September and what I've learned from them.
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