Instructions: look at the list and make those you have read bold, star (*) the ones you love, italicize those you plan on reading
- pride and prejudice – jane austen
- the lord of the rings – jrr tolkien
- jane eyre – charlotte bronte
- harry potter series – jk rowling*
- to kill a mockingbird – harper lee
- the bible
- wuthering heights – emily bronte
- nineteen eighty four – george orwell
- his dark materials – philip pullman
- great expectations – charles dickens
- little women – louisa m alcott
- tess of the d’urbervilles – thomas hardy
- catch 22 – joseph heller
- complete works of shakespeare
- rebecca – daphne du maurier
- the hobbit – jrr tolkien
- birdsong – sebastian faulks
- catcher in the rye – jd salinger
- the time traveler’s wife – audrey niffenegger
- middlemarch – george eliot
- gone with the wind – margaret mitchell
- the great gatsby – f scott fitzgerald*
- bleak house – charles dickens
- war and peace – leo tolstoy
- the hitch hiker’s guide to the galaxy – douglas adams*
- brideshead revisited – evelyn waugh
- crime and punishment – fyodor dostoyevsky
- grapes of wrath – john steinbeck
- alice in wonderland – lewis carroll
- the wind in the willows – kenneth grahame
- anna karenina – leo tolstoy
- david copperfield – charles dickens
- chronicles of narnia – cs lewis
- emma – jane austen
- persuasion – jane austen
- the lion, the witch and the wardrobe – cs lewis
- the kite runner – khaled hosseini
- captain corelli’s mandolin – louis de berniere
- memoirs of a geisha – arthur golden
- winnie the pooh – aa milne*
- animal farm – george orwell
- the da vinci code – dan brown*
- one hundred years of solitude – gabriel garcia marquez
- a prayer for owen meaney – john irving
- the woman in white – wilkie collins
- anne of green gables – lm montgomery
- far from the madding crowd – thomas hardy
- the handmaid’s tale – margaret atwood*
- lord of the flies – william golding
- atonement – ian mcewan
- life of pi – yann martel
- dune – frank herbert
- cold comfort farm – stella gibbons
- sense and sensibility – jane austen
- a suitable boy – vikram seth
- the shadow of the wind – carlos ruiz zafon
- a tale of two cities – charles dickens
- brave new world – aldous huxley
- the curious incident of the dog in the night-time – mark haddon
- love in the time of cholera – gabriel garcia marquez
- of mice and men – john steinbeck*
- lolita – vladimir nabokov*
- the secret history – donna tartt
- the lovely bones – alice sebold
- count of monte cristo – alexandre dumas
- on the road – jack kerouac
- jude the obscure – thomas hardy
- bridget jones’s diary – helen fielding*
- midnight’s children – salman rushdie
- moby dick – herman melville
- oliver twist – charles dickens
- dracula – bram stoker
- the secret garden – frances hodgson burnett*
- notes from a small island – bill bryson
- ulysses – james joyce
- the bell jar – sylvia plath
- swallows and amazons – arthur ransome
- germinal – emile zola
- vanity fair – william makepeace thackeray
- possession – as byatt
- a christmas carol – charles dickens
- cloud atlas – david mitchell
- the color purple – alice walker
- the remains of the day – kazuo ishiguro
- madame bovary – gustave flaubert
- a fine balance – rohinton mistry
- charlotte’s web – eb white*
- the five people you meet in heaven – mitch albom
- adventures of sherlock holmes – sir arthur conan doyle
- the faraway tree collection – enid blyton
- heart of darkness – joseph conrad (hated this book!)
- the little prince – antoine de saint-exupery
- the wasp factory – iain banks
- watership down – richard adams
- a confederacy of dunces – john kennedy toole
- a town like alice – nevil shute
- the three musketeers – alexandre dumas
- hamlet – william shakespeare
- charlie and the chocolate factory – roald dahl
- les miserables – victor hugo