50 books to read before you die

So, I'm reading through my old blog, the one I put the links too (and I'm amazed that in three years, some of my reading/writing opinions haven't changed. I mean, I started that blog 18 months into my remission, my head was all over the place, but I think it's easier to read through than this one, sometimes) and I came across my progress through the fifty books to read before you die. At that point (March 2010) I had fully read 12 of the listed books/series. I had started another 2. I set the target to finish the 50 by the time I'm 40, and my son was 18. As it stands now? See below. I've put in bold the books I have read, italicised the ones I've partially read, and asterisked those I know the storyline of prior to reading. I'm actually in awe of myself, even if I only have 11 years left to finish:

The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy; J.R.R.Tolkien* (note, I have read The Hobbit and The Fellowship. I'm halfway through The Two Towers)
1984; George Orwell*
Pride And Prejudice; Jane Austen*
The Grapes Of Wrath; John Steinbeck
To Kill A Mockingbird; Harper Lee
Jane Eyre; Charlotte Bronte*
Wuthering Heights; Emily Bronte*
A Passage To India; E.M.Forster
The Lord Of The Flies; William Golding*
Hamlet; William Shakespeare*
A Bend In The River; V.S.Naipaul
The Great Gatsby; F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher In The Rye; J.D.Salinger*
The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath
Brave New World; Aldous Huxley
The Diary Of Anne Frank; Anne Frank*
Don Quixote; Miguel De Cervantes
The Bible; Various*
The Canterbury Tales; Geoffrey Chaucer
Ulysses; James Joyce
The Quiet American; Graham Greene
Birdsong; Sebastian Faulks
Money; Martin Amis
Harry Potter Series; J.K.Rowling*
Moby Dick; Herman Melville*
The Wind In The Willows; Kenneth Grahame*
His Dark Materials; Philip Pullman*
Anna Karenina; Leo Tolstoy
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland; Lewis Carroll*
Rebecca; Dapgne Du Maurier
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time; Mark Haddon
On The Road; Jack Kerouac
Heart of Darkness; Joseph Conrad
The Way We Live Now; Anthony Trollope
The Outsider; Albert Camus
The Colour Purple; Alice Walker
Life Of Pi; Yann Martel
Frankenstein; Mary Shelley*
The War Of The Worlds; H.G.Wells*
Men Without Women; Ernest HemingwayGulliver's Travels; Jonathan Swift*
A Christmas Carol; Charles Dickens*Huckleberry Finn; Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe; Daniel Defoe
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; Ken Kesey
Catch 22; Joseph Heller
The Count Of Monte Cristo; Alexandre DumasMemoirs Of A Geisha; Arthur Goden
The Divine Comedy; Alighieri Dante
The Picture Of Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde

So that's what, 26? and 14 of them were in the last four years. 15 if you count my progress through Lord of The Rings. I have most of them in paperback or ebook format, but I try to balance them out with new literary books, YA books, and fanfiction/unknown writers, as well as other classics not on the list, such as Les Miserables. I decided really early on to try and beat this list the smart way, and go for the long books first as much as possible, dipping into the short ones like Frankenstein or Dorian Gray when I was busy at work, back when I did 60 hour weeks. Ulysses and the Bible are up once I've conquered LOTR. Wish me luck!