Life Lists

 Okay, here are the definitive versions (and updates) of the lists I've made in the last week. 

50 Cities to See Before I Die

Non-U.S.
1) Paris
2) Nice
3) Athens
4) Barcelona
5) Madrid
6) Stockholm
7) Oslo
8) Moscow
9) St. Petersburg
10) Vienna
11) Prague
12) Dublin
13) Bruges
14) Bangkok
15) Phnom Penh
16) Ho Chi Minh City
17) Cairo
18) Sydney
19) Melbourne
20) Johnannesburg
21) Tokyo
22) Nairobi
23) Cape Town
24) Beijing
25) Kathmandu
26) Mumbai
27) New Delhi
28) Rome
29) Venice
30) Florence
31) Lisbon
32) Havana
33) Rio de Janiero
34) Buenos Aires
35) Santiago

Canada
36) Ottawa
37) Vancouver
38) Montreal
39) Quebec City
40) Halifax

U.S.
41) New Orleans
42) San Antonio
43) Austin
44) Santa Fe
45) Phoenix
46) San Francisco
47) Portland
48) Seattle
49) Boston
50) Missoula, Montana (why not?)



50 Things to Read Before I Die

1) The complete oeuvre of Richard Russo  (as of now, I only have 3 to go)
2) Something by each of the following international mystery writers: Rebecca Pawel, Peter Temple, Kerstin Ekman, Giles Blunt, Colin Cotterill
3) All of William Boyd's novels
4) By Hemingway: A Moveable Feast and For Whom the Bell Tolls
5) Magic Mountain and Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
6) Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
7) something by Emile Zola
8) Ann Beattie's completer collection of stories for the New Yorker
9) every Pultizer Prize winner from here on
10) Carol Shields' The Stone Diaries
11) Ruth Rendell: A Sight for Sore Eyes and its follow-up, The Vault
12) something by Balzac
13) everything from Anne Tyler since 1982's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
14) Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny
15) Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy
16) The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood 
17) by Pat Conroy: The Great Santini, South of Broad, The Lords of Discipline
18) one book by Martin Amis and one book by his son, Kingsley Amis
19) By Stewart O'Nan: Wish You Were Here and Emily, Alone
20) Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
21) The Thorn Birds
22) Tom Jones
23) something by Dickens
24) The Tenants of Moonbloom (by Edward Lewis Tallant), Daniel Woodrell's The Outlaw Album, Stefan Zweig's The Royal Game
25) Two books by Daphne du Maurier
26) by Richard Yates: The Collected Stories and Cold Spring Harbor
27) every novel by Patricia Highsmith
28) something by Stendhal
29) two novels by Georges Simenon
30) something by E.L. Doctorow and Russell Banks
31) something by T.C. Boyle
32) 5 art history books about either painters or periods of art history
33) one novel by Paul Theroux and one non-fiction travel book by him
34) two novels by William Maxwell
35) either Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford or The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
36) one book by each of the following authors: John Fante, Ross Macdonald, Carl Hiassen, Ken Bruen
37) Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
38) Out of Africa and Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
39) Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
40) A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
41) two books by Truman Capote
42) Tender is the Night and one other book by F. Scott Fitzgerald
43) By Willa Cather: O Pioneers! and The Professor's House
44) Three novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
45) five of National Geographic's 100 Best Adventure Books of all time
       Link: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0404/adventure_books.html 
46) two novels by John Banville
47) Middle Passage by Charles Johnson, a mystery novel by Chester Himes, and a novel by Albert Murray
48) At least one mystery novel by the following writers: Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Rex Stout, Eric Ambler, Wilkie Collins, Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Kenneth Fearing
49) More mysteries!  At least one work by each of the following: Jim Thompson, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Cornell Woolrich, Peter Robinson, Mickey Spillane, James Lee Burke, Scott Turow, Denise Mina, Deborah Crombie, and Erin Hart
50) Remembrance of Things Past - I own it, I'm young (well...) and i have no excuse not to read it!