- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J. R. Tolkien(3/3)
- The Hobbit - J.R. Tolkien
- The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs
- Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
- StarDust - Neil Gaiman
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- The Game of Thrones - W.E.B. Weiss
- Wicked
- The Mysterious Benedict Society
- Dangerous Angels - Francesca Lia Block
- Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
- Grimms' Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm
- Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Withering Heights - Emily Brontë
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- The Toa of Pooh
- Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Sex, Drugs And Cocoa Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
- Sex, Sin and Zen - Brad Warner
- After the Falls - Cathrine Gildiner
- The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy -Douglas Adams
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
- Glass - Ellen Hopkins
- Fallout - Ellen Hopkins
- Fool - Christopher Moore
- (Re-read) The Giver - Lois
- Ramayana - R. K. Narayan (Translation)
- Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
- Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
- Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- Walden - Henry Thoreau
- Civil Disobedieance - Henry Thoreau
- Paradise Lost - John Milton
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
- Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
Academic books to read:
- The Disappearance of Childhood - Neil Postman
- Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
- Education System - Neil Postman
Read Time Magazine's 100 best all time novels. (7/100) http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html
- A Death In The Family - James Agee
- The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe -C.S. Lewis
- The Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
- Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think I like this list better: http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
- The Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- 1984 - George Orwell
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald