Day 30 of 100 Days of 100 Ways To Rule Your World

READ EVEN MORE (A Few Suggestions)

What are you reading? Something from the New York Times Best Seller List? Your kid’s Science book? A Comic Book? A Classic? Junk mail? If you answered yes, that’s a Very Good thing. If you are not currently reading something then it is time to crack open a book (or two or more).

Read something all the time. Always have a book handy, either bound or electronic format. Always have a book you can dive into no more than arm’s length away.

Reading is essential to life. Reading is what opens our minds and expands our horizons. When you read you increase your vocabulary, keep your mind performing at peak levels, increase your knowledge of the world, and among other things you experience the world through the eyes and thoughts of someone else.

If you are not too sure what to read first, that’s OK.

Here is a list of 77 books that I highly recommend. These are what I consider REQUIRED READING FOR LIFE. These books are listed in NO particular order but they are ALL in one of two lists: “Read” and “Not Yet Read”.

The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
52 Pick-up by Elmore Leonard
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Time Machine by HG Wells
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
The Sword in the Stone by TH White
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Book of Daniel by EL Doctorow
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolp Erich Raspe
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells
The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

So grab yourself a book and start reading. If you are curious, as of this writing, I finally finished reading The Odyssey by Homer.

Thank you,
Dave
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