I am currently devouring Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran and it’s inspired me to make a commitment to read some of the best written or rather interesting classical books that shape our literature.

 

Next month is my birthday and for the next year I want to read the following great books:

 

1.      War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

2.      Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

3.      F. Scott Fitzgerald s classic novel The Great Gatsby

4.      A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

5.      In God's Name by David Yallop

6.      Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

7.      Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

8.      Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

9.      To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

10.  One Thousand and One Nights

11.  Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

12.  Ulysses by James Joyce

13.  Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

14.   Not Yet
Uhuru The Autobiography of Oginga Odinga

15.  1984 by George Orwell

16.  The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

17.  The Master and Margarita by by Mikhail Bulgakov

18.  Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

19.  The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu

20.  East of Eden by John Steinbeck