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Books Kate Will Read Before Starting Any New Shows

I watch too much TV because it's what I automatically go to when I get home from work or get bored. So, while I intend to keep up with the few shows I actually enjoy and don't just watch to pass the time, I want to read these 100 books before I start any new shows. My goal is to read them all by the end of 2015, but since I'm getting a late start I can't guarantee it.
This list includes some of the most well known books ever written, most of which I have never read, it has been a significant amount of time since I read them, or I read them for class and therefore didn't pay as much attention to the actual writing and story.
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984
George Orwell
2
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
3
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
4
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
5
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
6
All the Kings Men
All the Kings Men
7
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy
8
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
9
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
10
Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days
11
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
12
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
Ian McEwan
13
Bleak House
Bleak House
14
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
15
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
16
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
17
Dante's Inferno
Dante's Inferno
18
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
19
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
20
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
Bram Stoker
21
Ender's Game
Ender's Game
22
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
23
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
24
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted
25
Gone Girl
Gone Girl
26
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
27
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath
28
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
29
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
30
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
31
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
32
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
33
Le Morte D'Arthur (Sir Thomas Malory)
Le Morte D'Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory
34
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass
35
Les Miserables
Les Miserables
36
Life of Pi
Life of Pi
37
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
38
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
39
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
George Eliot
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