Things To Read Before You Die

-Middlesex (the definitive Great American Novel of the 21st Century)
-Rime of the Ancient Mariner
-Lord of the Rings trilogy
-Ender's Game/Speaker for the Dead (which are really one book)
-The Human Stain
-The Grutter v. Bollinger opinion, especially the Scalia dissent ("works and plays well with others: B+")
-The Tiger by William Blake ("Tiger, tiger, burning bright")
-Lolita (although Pale Fire is Nabokov's real masterpiece)
-The first chapter of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ("but the only thing that worried me was the ether")
-Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (for your recommended dose of nihilism)
-The Sun Also Rises (while lazying about France or Spain)
-The Hitchhikers' Guide series
-Lady Chatterley's Lover (tale of the original desperate housewife)
-Eugene Onegin
-Anything by Richard Posner
-Welcome to the Monkey House
-Heart of Darkness
-Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead (either will give you your lifetime recommended dose of Ayn Rand)
-Brave New World/1984
-Memoirs of a Geisha (seriously, who hasn't read this)
-The Portrait of Dorian Grey
-The Bill of Rights
-The Sirens of Titan (the only book whose ending moved me to tears)
-Any of Hawthorne's short stories (esp. Rappaccini's Daughter)
-The 4 Gospels of the Bible (if only to sniff out the inconsistencies)
-Babbitt
-Life of Pi
-The Prince