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
• 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