by Seth Rogovoy

I figure if all goes well, I’ve got enough time to read about 500 more books before the lights go out. So I’m making a list of what they should be. I came up with about two dozen books I haven’t read and two dozen I want to re-read.

What would you recommend that I add to my list? Any form: fiction, nonfiction, history, essays, memoir, philosophy, etc. Please add your suggestions in the comments section.

TO READ:

1. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
2. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
3. The Talmud
4. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
5. My Struggle Vol 4 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
6. My Struggle Vol 5 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
7. My Struggle Vol 6 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
8. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
9. Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec
10. ??? by Natalia Ginzburg
11. The Zohar
12. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
13. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
14. ??? by Will Self
15. Mao II by Don DeLillo
16. Underworld by Don DeLillo
17. The Idiot by Dostoevsky
18. The Joke by Milan Kundera
19. The Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
20. Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
21. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
22. Seven Years by Peter Stamm
23. Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
24. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
25. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
26. Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters by Elie Wiesel

TO RE-READ:

1. The Bible
2. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
3. Herzog by Saul Bellow
4. ??? by Jerzy Kosinski
5. Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre
6. The Windup Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
7. Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
8. Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom Scholem
9. The Counterlife by Philip Roth
10. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
11. London Fields by Martin Amis
12. The Information by Martin Amis
13. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
14. A Piece of My Heart by Richard Ford
15. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
16. White Noise by Don DeLillo
17. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
18. The Unforgettable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
19. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
20. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
21. Money by Martin Amis
22. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
23. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
24. The Sellout by Paul Beatty
25. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
26. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
27. Either/Or by Kierkegaard