Here's a book list my buddy Richelle recently forwarded to me; the ones I have read are bolded, the ones I own but have not started are in italics.
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 
• Anna Karenina 
• Crime and Punishment 
• Catch-22 
• One Hundred Years of Solitude 
• Wuthering Heights 
• The Silmarillion 
• Life of Pi : a novel 
• The Name of the Rose 
• Don Quixote 
• Moby Dick 
• Ulysses 
• Madame Bovary 
• The Odyssey 
• Pride and Prejudice 
• Jane Eyre 
• The Tale of Two Cities 
• The Brothers Karamazov 
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies 
• War and Peace 
• Vanity Fair 
• The Time Traveler’s Wife 
• The Iliad 
• Emma 
• The Blind Assassin 
• The Kite Runner 
• Mrs. Dalloway 
• Great Expectations 
• American Gods 
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 
• Atlas Shrugged 
• Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books 
• Memoirs of a Geisha 
• Middlesex 
• Quicksilver 
• Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West 
• The Canterbury tales 
• The Historian : a novel 
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 
• Love in the Time of Cholera 
• Brave New world 
• The Fountainhead 
• Foucault’s Pendulum 
• Middlemarch 
• Frankenstein 
• The Count of Monte Cristo 
• Dracula 
• A Clockwork Orange 
• Anansi Boys 
• The Once and Future King 
• The Grapes of Wrath 
• The Poisonwood Bible : a novel 
• 1984 
• Angels & Demons 
• The Inferno 
• The Satanic Verses 
• Sense and Sensibility 
• The Picture of Dorian Gray 
• Mansfield Park 
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 
• To the Lighthouse 
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles 
• Oliver Twist 
• Gulliver’s Travels 
• Les Misérables 
• The Corrections 
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 
• Dune 
• The Prince 
• The Sound and the Fury 
• Angela’s Ashes : a memoir 
• The God of Small Things 
• A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present 
• Cryptonomicon 
• Neverwhere 
• A Confederacy of Dunces 
• A Short History of Nearly Everything 
• Dubliners 
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being 
• Beloved 
• Slaughterhouse-five 
• The Scarlet Letter 
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves 
• The Mists of Avalon 
• Oryx and Crake : a novel 
• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed 
• Cloud Atlas 
• The Confusion 
• Lolita 
• Persuasion 
• Northanger Abbey 
• The Catcher in the Rye 
• On the Road 
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame 
• Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything 
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values 
• The Aeneid 
• Watership Down 
• Gravity’s Rainbow 
• The Hobbit 
• In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences 
• White Teeth 
• Treasure Island 
• David Copperfield 
• The Three Musketeers 
There is always, ALWAYS more to read...
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