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Im 19 and want a whole list of books to read and own before i die any book lovers have a list?

I am going to have a library somday right now i have a book self filled and 2 more need filling. also if you have a collection you want to get rid of or sell email me.

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1. the life of pi. the kite runner. evas angel.
2. Anything by Charles Bukowski or William Burroughs...
3. Well I would say you def need the classics. Have all the Austen and Brontes. Def Shakespeare. uh... (I'm trying to look in my room I have about 11 shelves full lol) ... Twain is also good to have. Luoisa May Alcott's Little Women adn The Inheritance are good. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave is excellent (its short but very informative and eye opening) I am just thinking of the classics right now. There are so many good authors out there. But I think the ones I've mentioned before is a good place to start.
4. I have a shelf on my bookshelf of books I need to read. Right now it's mostly Dracula and Vanity Fair.
5. Oh wow...I don't know where to begin!! Poe's short stories The Worst Witch series Anything by Jasper Fforde Seven Little Australians Robin Hobb's Assassin series Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Jane Eyre Wide Sargasso Sea (only if you liked Jane Eyre) A Little Princess Little Lord Fauntleroy Secret Garden Boy The Lovely Bones Anything by John Marsden Flat Stanley Anything by Enid Blyton The Obernewtyn series The Miller's Tale and the Merchant's Tale from The Canterbury Tales - they're hilarious!! Brave New World - definitely That's all I can think of for now
6. I am a very diverse reader and would gladly share the books I thoroughly enjoyed. I'm not sure if you like a particular genre or not. My only advice is that you do not limit yourself. I've read things that have disturbed, and other that have enlightened. I have read things for the laughs and others for the male meets female vibe. It is only with such a broad spectrum, we can properly assess our likes and dislikes--the oddities to the near-real; the far-fetch to the what-the-heck! lol. ENJOY! Btw, I'm 19 as well. 1. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coehlo * must read 2."The Fifth Mountain" by Paulo Coehlo * about Faith, set in history 3. "Adulthood Rites" by Octavia Butler 4. "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler 5. "1984" by George Orwell 6. "Rose Madder" by Stephen King * rather interesting 7. "Their Eyes Were Watching God" Zora Neale Hurston 8. "Wine of Astonishment" by Earl Lovelace * Caribbean Literature 9. "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse 10."Breathing Room" by Patricia Elam * Just note that I read this probably at age 13, 14, 15 and am not sure how I would enjoy it now . But at the time, I thought it was a good book. 11. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley 12. "I Know What the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou 13. "Black Boy" by Richard Wright 14. "The Hobbit" by J.R. Tolkein * I read in 7th grade. I really liked then. 15. "Cry the Beloved Country" by.....my bad. Well, there are more that I have to think of. Just let me know, but I think this is enough for now. Enjoy yourself. I hope you find that time. I would also love to hear what you have in your possession already. I too as a 19 year old am trying to read more--be enlightened.
7. If you like classics try titles by Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, DH Lawrence. There are many good contemporary writers, it just depends on what genre you are interested in. Ask a librarian; they usually know what's what.
8. The Stand and Carrie by Stephen King American Gods and the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman Imajica and Sacrament by Clive Barker Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl any Dr. Suess Grimm's Fairy Tales 1984 by George Orwell On The Road by Jack Kerouac The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran A Happy Death by Albert Camus
9. I just copy and pasted a list of books I've read. Hope you see something you like. Chuck Palahniuk 1. lullaby 2. Rant 3. Survivor 4, Choke 5. Invisible Monsters 6. Diary Carl Sagan 7. Demon Haunted World 8. Cosmos 9. Billions and Billions 10. The Dragons Of Eden Richard Dawkins 11. The God Delusion 12. The Blind Watchmaker 13. The Selfish Gene 14. Climbing Mount Improbable Sam Harris 16. Letter to a Christian Nation Peter De Vries 17. Slouching toward Kalamazoo Khaled Hosseini 18. The Kite Runner Terry Brooks 19. Sword of Shannara 20. Elfstones of Shannara 21. The Wishsong of Shannara 22. The Scions of Shannara 23. The Druid of Shannara 24. The Elfqueen of Shannara 25. The Talisman of Shannara Robert Jordan 26. Wheel of time: Eye of the world Noam Chomsky 27. Media Control Kenneth C. Davis 28. Don't Know Much About The Bible 29. Don't Know Much About American History Allan Watts 30. This is it. 31. Behold The Spirit J. Krishnamurti 32. Freedom From the Known 33. Think on These Things 34. Meditations 35. Journal 36. Awakening Intelligence Roland Vernon 37. Star in the East Christopher Hitchens 42. God is not Great Friedrich Nietzsche 43. The anti-christ 44. The Genealogy of Morals 45. Beyond Good and Evil 46. Thus spake Zarathustra Leonard Cohen 49. Stranger Music Saul Williams 50. She John Selby 51. Kundalini Awakening Joseph Campbell 52. The power of myth Kurt Connegut, Jr. 53. Mother Night 54. Slaughter House 5 Jack Kornfield 55. Teachings of the Buddha Lawrence Shainberg 56. Ambivalent Zen Daniel C. Matt 57. Kabbalah the heart of jewish mysticism David Berman 58. Actual Air Samuel Beckett 59. Stories and Text for Nothing 60. Beckett's Dying Words Jack Kerouac 61. On The Road 62. Subterraneans Richard Bach 63. Jonathan Livingston Seagull Earnest Hemingway 64. The Old Man and the Sea William Golding 65. Lord of the Flies John Steinbeck 66. Of mice and men
10. Definitely the Jane Austen books. and Poe. Other classics that were good: Far from the Madding Crowd, Jane Eyre, A Separate Peace, Of Mice and Men, Waterhsip Down. Stay away from Dickens - only book I couldn't make it past the first 50 pages was David Copperfield. Other stuff: David Eddings as mentioned. Stepehen King - It, Insomnia, The Stand, Carrie, Christine, Pet Sematary. Anita Shreve - all her books. Sara Gruen Anne McCaffrey - start with the Dragonriders series. Anne Rice - Vampire books, and the witch books were good. Harry Potter - yes, Harry Potter. Maeve Binchy - good fiction set in Ireland Dick Francis - almost forgot him. Good mysteries that tie in with horse racing.