I was trying to get into reading more and thought what should I read? So I search must read books before you die? I got a few top 100 must read novels.
I then got the seven lists put together and my top 100 without double ups was actually the top 520 novels to read…
Let’s see your must reads!
Some I have done on the list The great Gatsby To kill a mockingbird Lolita The catcher in the rye Lord of the flies 1984 Alice’s adventures in wonderland
Currently reading catch 22
The Bible
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That is on the list
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Bhagwat Geeta
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Athena 4 Oct
A monk who sold his Ferrari
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I did enjoy that one
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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @nym 3 Oct
Meditations
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Yes good one
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @drlh 3 Oct
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged.
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Some russian classic novels are a must read, in my opinion:
  • The idiot
  • The karamazov brothers
  • War and Peace
  • Crime and punishment
  • Master and Margherita
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Are they available in English?
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yup
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Nice I’ll check that out
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Read and innerstand the Celestine Prophecy.
Maybe then we won't need to die.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatsMate 3 Oct
I want to read the Odyssey before I die! It is such an undertaking to start!!! :)
I have read many of the ones on your list when I was younger!
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Yes me too
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Papa Goriot Metamorphosis The hollow of the needle The name of the rose The perfume
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Haven’t heard these ones I’ll look into it
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Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Metamorphoses by Franz Kafka
The Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Perfume by Patrick SĂĽskind
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One of the best novels I've read so far is The House of the Spirits, the first novel by Chilean writer Isabel Allende, classified as magical realism, the novel incorporates unlikely and strange elements into the ordinary. The story tells the life of the Trueba family over four generations from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1970s and follows the social and political movements of the post-viceregal period in Chile.
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Sounds like a good book! I’ll keep it in mind as well
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@kr has a pretty great list of book recommendations.
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Yeah there is some good stuff in there. Lots of knowledge in those books for sure.
I’m interested in what’s yours?
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Dune is a must The jigsaw man best horror ever. Dragon storm. The wild mans heart
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I have dune haven’t started yet
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I would drop everything. He knew this time would come. Very thrilling.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 3 Oct
minority report
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Rate it? It’s not on my list yet
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @LowK3y19 3 Oct
Brave new world The island
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Yes want to do those ones
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 4 Oct
Childhood's End is another good one.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @fm 3 Oct
Tuareg - Novel by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa Flash: ou le grand voyage by Charles Duchaussois
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @OC 3 Oct
Lord of the rings should be on there. The sheer scale of Tolkien's imagination is mind blowing. Others have said Atlas shrugged but I'll say it again, particularly relevant today
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Yeah lord of the rings series is on the list
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A Lodging of Wayfairing Men The Gulag Archipelago Atlas Shrugged
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The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver True Names by Vernor Vinge Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Lord of the Flies by William Golding Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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The mandibles was a good read And lord of the flies
Haven’t read the others
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Does it matter if you know that you will die soon? That book will not change with anything. Anyways the death is just another cycle.
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Do you want to spend your limited time left reading bad books darth?
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Animal farm which was mentioned here the other day was good as well.
Not on the must read but been mentioned a lot in Bitcoin circles The mandibles
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