Keeping the shopoholic (in me) at bay...

In an effort to do something more constructive during lunch break at the office other than....

• Going to Pick 'n Pay to buy foodstuffs
• Buying baby clothes
• Buying skincare products
• Browsing the stores
• Trying on clothes...and sometimes buying :-( etc etc etc

...I want to get myself a book to read. At first I thought working near the biggest mall in Cape Town was really awesome, soooo convenient BUT it really isn't. Especially not for someone like me who likes to shop (Shhhhh, don't tell Sam). So i popped into my usual lunch time spot Canal Walk Shopping Centre and headed to Exclusive Books. Just my luck, they're having a sale....sadly only the really crap books are on sale. I left the store empty handed planning on returning tomorrow knowing exactly what book to purchase. Back at the office, I did some Googling to find a really good read and stumbled upon "Best 100 Novels".

Here's the first 25...

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

3. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

4. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

10. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

11. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

12. Animal Farm by George Orwell

13. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

14. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

15. Ulysses by James Joyce

16. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

17. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

18. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

19. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

20. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

21. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

22. East of Eden by John Steinbeck

23. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

24. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

25. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

....well I still don't know what to read but I my goal is to read all 100 best novels before I die. I've already read quite a few on the list so I'm sure my goal is attainable....