I was serving the Internet and found several people had written 40 books to read by 40 and as I love to read, I thought I would challenge myself and anyone that wishes to join me, to read my own 40 by 40 list.
1. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
6. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
7. The Shining by Stephen King
8. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
9. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
10. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
11. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
12. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
13. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
14. The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
15. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
16. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
17. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
18. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
19. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
20. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
21. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rollins
23. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
24. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
25. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
26. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
27. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
28. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
29. Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James
30. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
21. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
22. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
23. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
24. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
25. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
26. The Outsiders by SE Hinton
27. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
28. Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
29. The Help by Katheryn Stockett
30. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
31. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
32. A Child Called It by Dave Peltzer
33. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leboux
34. Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo
35. Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
36. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Oz
37. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
38. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
39. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flauburt
40. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Happy Reading!!!