To Be Read

Besides my ever-expanding bookshelves, I have these on-going lists of “must reads”. If I’ve read it, I’ve bolded the title. If I have a review, I’ve linked to it.

MY CLASSICS LIST:

  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  • The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas
  • Rape of the Lock by A. Pope
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
  • The Shining by Stephen King
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck 
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
  • An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

THE ONE HUNDRED BEST ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Published July 1998 by The Board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House.

  1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  6. Ulysses by James Joyce
  7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  9. 1984 by George Orwell
  10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
  12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  13. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
  14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  19. As I lay Dying by William Faulkner
  20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
  23. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  26. Gone with the Wind by Margarete Mitchell
  27. Native Son by Richard Wright
  28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Next by Ken Kesey
  29. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  37. The World According to Garp by John Irving
  38. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
  39. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
  40. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  41. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
  42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
  45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
  48. Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrenc
  49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  51. My Antonia by Willa Cather
  52. Howard’s End by E.M. Forester
  53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
  55. Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  56. Jazz by Toni Morrison
  57. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
  58. Absalon, Absalon! by William Faulkner
  59. Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  61. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Conner
  62. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
  64. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
  65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Thomas Wolfe
  66. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  68. Light in August by William Faulkner
  69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
  70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maruer
  72. A Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
  74. Brideshead Revisisted by Evelyn Waugh”
  75. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
  76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
  77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
  78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein
  79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
  81. The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  82. White Noise by Don DeLillo
  83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  85. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
  86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
  87. The Bostonians by James Henry
  88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
  90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  93. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
  94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
  96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
  98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
  99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
  100. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie