Jason A. Carter

The list of books I’ve read, from the 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die book.  Whew, looks like I’ve got a ways to go before I shuffle off.

• The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
• Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
• Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
• American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
• The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
• Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
• Contact – Carl Sagan
• Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
• The World According to Garp – John Irving
• The Shining – Stephen King
• Rabbit Redux – John Updike
• Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
• Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• Rabbit, Run – John Updike
• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
• The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
• A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Trial – Franz Kafka
• Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
• The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
• The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
• The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe

Plus a bunch of others that I read in high school but I wasn’t paying much attention, so I’m not counting.