The next time you want something of substance to read, here’s a list of 876 books compiled from a couple of lists I found on the Internet – one a list of librarian’s recommendations, another of 500 great books, and a few I have added myself. I only deleted one because I thought it was trash, and was not sure what it was doing on any list of good literature.
As for the rest, you get to judge; but while compiling this, I certainly saw a good number that I have read, and many that I am ashamed I have not yet read and would like to.
Enjoy.
Edit: I will link back here to another list I published a couple of years ago, “Fifteen Titles.” You will find many duplicates on that list, but it was compiled with a different set of criteria. Nevertheless, it contains many worthwhile and impactful works.
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| 2666 | Roberto Bolano |
| $2.00 a Day | Kathryn Edin |
| 12 Million Black Voices | Richard Wright |
| 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami |
| 84, Charing Cross Road | Helene Hanff |
| Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The | Sherman Alexie |
| Accidental Tourist, The | Anne Tyler |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The | Mark Twain |
| Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, The | Cuthbert Bede |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The | Mark Twain |
| Aeneid, The | Virgil |
| Age of Innocence, The | Edith Wharton |
| Agnes Grey | Anne Brontë |
| Alchemist, The | Paulo Coelho |
| Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| All Creatures Great and Small (Series) | James Herriot |
| All of a Kind Family | Sidney Taylor |
| All Passion Spent | Vita Sackville-West |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria |
| All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr |
| Along Came a Spider | James Patterson |
| Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The | Michael Charon |
| American Born Chinese | Gene Luen Yang |
| American Gods | Neil Gaiman |
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
| Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| An Ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir |
| An Old-Fashioned Girl | Louisa May Alcott |
| An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | P. D. James |
| Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie |
| And the Band Played On | Randy Shilts |
| And Then All Hell Broke Loose | Richard Engel |
| And Then There Were None | By Agatha Christie |
| Angela’s Ashes | Frank McCourt |
| Animal Dreams | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank |
| Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery |
| Antony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare |
| Arabian Nights | Tahir Shah |
| Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. | New Jersey |
| Ariel | Sylvia Plath |
| Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Saenz |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne |
| Art of Fielding, The | Chad Harbach |
| Art of Hearing Heartbeats, The | Jan-Philippe Sendker |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare |
| Assistant, The | Bernard Malamud |
| Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, The | Matthew Tobin Anderson |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| Atonement | Ian Mcewan |
| Attachments | Rainbow Rowell |
| Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, The | Gertrude Stein |
| Autobiography of Malcolm X, The | Malcolm X |
| Awakening, The | Kate Chopin |
| Babe: The Gallant Pig | Dick King-Smith |
| Bad Beginning, The | Lemony Snicket |
| Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay |
| Bad News for Outlaws | Vaunda Micheaux Nelson |
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Dai Sijie |
| Bastard Out of Carolina | Dorothy Allison |
| Beautiful and Damned, The | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Beautiful Ruins | Jess Walter |
| Because of Winn Dixie | Kate diCamillo |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama |
| Beekeeper’s Apprentice, The | Laurie R. King |
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett |
| Bell Jar, The | Sylvia Plath |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Beowulf | The Beowulf Poet |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Big Sleep, The | Raymond Chandler |
| Binti | Nnedi Okorafor |
| Birds of America | John James Audubon |
| Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| Black Boy | Richard Wright |
| Black Leopard, Red Wolf | Marlon James |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
| Bless Me, Ultima | Rudolpho Anaya |
| Blind Assassin, The | Margaret Atwood |
| Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy |
| Blue Castle, The | L.M. Montgomery |
| Blue Sword / the Hero and the Crown, The | Robin McKinley |
| Bluest Eye, The | Toni Morrison |
| Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe | Tom Wolfe |
| Book of Lost Things, The | John Connolly |
| Book of Three, The | Lloyd Alexander |
| Book Thief, The | Markus Zusak |
| Borderlands | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| Born Confused | Tanuja Desai Hidier |
| Born to Run | Christopher McDougall |
| Bossypants | Tina Fey |
| Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi | Helen Oyeyemi |
| Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, The | Daniel James Brown |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| Breakfast at Tiffany’s | Truman Capote |
| Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| Brick Lane | Monica Ali |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
| Bridget Jones’s Diary | Helen Fielding |
| Brief History of Seven Killings, A | Marlon James |
| Brief History of Time, A | Stephen Hawking |
| Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The | Junot Diaz |
| Brokeback Mountain | Annie Proulx |
| Brothers Karamazov, The | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Dee Brown |
| Call of the Wild, The | Jack London |
| Candide | Voltaire |
| Canterbury Tales, The | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Canterville Ghost, The | Oscar Wilde |
| Captain Corelli’s Mandolin | Louis de Berniere |
| Carry on | Rainbow Rowell |
| Casino Royale | Ian Fleming |
| Casual Vacancy, The | J.K. Rowling |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Catcher in the Rye, The | J.D. Salinger |
| Catherine, Called Birdy | Karen Cushman |
| Cat’s Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Change of Climate, A | Hilary Mantel |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl |
| Charlotte’s Web | E.B. White |
| Children of Blood and Bone | Tomi Adyemi |
| Chocolate War, The | Robert Cormier |
| Christmas Carol, A | Charles Dickens |
| Cinder | Marissa Meyer |
| Clarissa | Samuel Richardson |
| Clear Light of Day | Anita Desai |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell |
| Code of the Woosters, The | Wodehouse |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons |
| Cold Mountain | Charles Frasier |
| Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, The | Langston Hughes |
| Collected Stories of Eudora Welty | Eudora Welty |
| Color of Magic, The | Terry Pratchett |
| Color of Water, The | James McBride |
| Color Purple, The | Alice Walker |
| Comedy of Errors, The | William Shakespeare |
| Common Sense | Thomas Paine |
| Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, The | Brothers Grimm |
| Complete Stories, The | Flannery O’Connor |
| Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe, The | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Confederacy of Dunces, A | John Kennedy Toole |
| Confessions of a Shopaholic | Sophie Kinsella |
| Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A | Mark Twain |
| Constellation of Vital Phenomena, A | Anthony Marra |
| Corrections, The | Jonathan Franzen |
| Count of Monte Cristo, The | Alexandre Duman |
| Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories, The | Harold Courlander |
| Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| Crank | Ellen Hopkins |
| Crazy Rich Asians | Kevin Kwan |
| Cricket in Times Qquare, A | George Selden |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Crocodile on the Sandbank | Elizabeth Peters |
| Crucible, The | Arthur Miller |
| Crying of Lot 49, The | Robert E. Kohn |
| Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The | Mark Haddon |
| Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese |
| Da Vinci Code, The | Dan Brown |
| Daisy Jones & the Six | Taylor Jenkins Reid |
| Daisy Miller | Henry James |
| Daniel Deronda | George Eliot |
| Dark Is Rising, The | Susan Cooper |
| Darkly Dreaming Dexter | Jeff Lindsay |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| Day of the Triffids, The | John Wyndham |
| Dead Wake | Erik Larson |
| Death at an Early Age | Jonathan Kozol |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| Death in the Family, A | James Agee |
| Death in Venice | Thomas Mann |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Death of the Heart, The | Elizabeth Bowen |
| Decameron, The | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| Decline and Fall | Evelyn Waugh |
| Dept. of Speculation | Jenny Offill |
| Deptford Trilogy, The | Robertson Davies |
| Devil in a Blue Dress | Walter Mosley |
| Devil in the White City, The | Erik Larson |
| Diary of Anne Frank, The | Anne Frank |
| Dirty Job, A | Christopher Moore |
| Divergent (Series) | Veronica Roth |
| Divine Comedy, The | Dante Alighieri |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick |
| Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
| Don Quixote | Miguel De Cervantes |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Dream of the Red Chamber, The | Cao Xueqin |
| Dreaming in Cuban | Cristina Garcia |
| Dreamland | Sam Quinones |
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
| Eat Pray Love | Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Edwardians, The | Vita Sack-Ville West |
| Egypt Game, The | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| Eight, The | Katherine Neville |
| Eleanor & Park | Rainbow Rowell |
| Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine | Gail Honeyman |
| Elegance of the Hedgehog, The | Muriel Barberry |
| Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine |
| Emperor of All Maladies, The: A Biography of Cancer | Siddhartha Mukhe |
| Empire Falls | Richard Russo |
| Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card |
| English Patient, The | Michael Ondaatje |
| Epic of Gilgamesh, The | Unknown |
| Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton |
| Everything I Never Told You | Celeste Ng |
| Everything Is Illuminated | Jonathan Saffron Foer |
| Evicted | Matthew Desmond |
| Excellent Women | Barbara Pym |
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Saffron Foer |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| Fairie Queen, The | Edmund Spenser |
| Fall of the House of Usher, The | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Fangirl | Rainbow Rowell |
| Far From the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| Farewell to Arms, A | Ernest Hemingway |
| Farmer Boy | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Fault in Our Stars, The | John Green |
| Faust | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson |
| Female Brain, The | Louann Brizendine |
| Fifth Season, The | N. K. Jemisin |
| Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk |
| Fine Balance, A | Rohinton Mistry |
| Fingersmith | Sarah Waters |
| Fire Next Time, The | James Baldwin |
| Five People You Meet in Heaven, The | Mitch Albom |
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| Forgotten Garden | Kate Morton |
| Forsyte Saga, The | John Galsworthy |
| Foundation (Entire Series) | Isaac Asimov |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger |
| Freak the Mighty | Rodman Philbrick |
| Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Fannie Flagg |
| From Russia With Love | Ian Fleming |
| From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E. L. Konigsburg |
| Fun Home | Alison Bechdel |
| Game of Thrones, A (Series) | George R. R. Martin |
| Garden of Earthly Delights, A | Joyce Carol Oates |
| General in His Labyrinth, The | Marquez |
| Gentleman in Moscow, A | Amor Towles |
| Germinal | Émile Zola |
| Gilda Stories, The | Jewelle Gomez |
| Gilead | Marilynne Robinson |
| Girl Could Stand Up, A | Leslie Marshall |
| Girl on the Train, The | Paula Hawkins |
| Girl With a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier |
| Girl With the Dragon Tatoo, The | Stieg Larson |
| Giver, The | Lois Lowry |
| Glass Castle, The | Jeannette Walls |
| Glass Menagerie, The | Tennessee Williams |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| God of Small Things, The | Arundhati Roy |
| Golden Bowl, The | Henry James |
| Golden Compass, The | Phillip Pullman |
| Golden Notebook, The | Doris Lessing |
| Goldfinch, The | Donna Tartt |
| Goldfinch, The | Donna Tartt |
| Golem and the Djinni, The | Helene Wecker |
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| Good Earth, The | Pearl S. Buck |
| Good Man Is Hard to Find, A | Flannery O’Connor |
| Good Master, The | Kate Seredy |
| Good Omens | Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman |
| Good Soldier, The | Ford Madox Ford |
| Good Talk | Mira Jacob |
| Good Wives | Louisa May Alcott |
| Grapes of Wrath, The | John Steinbeck |
| Grave Talent, A | Laurie R. King |
| Gravity’s Rainbow | Thomas Pinchon |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Great Gatsby, The | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Grendel | John Gardner |
| Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The | Mary Ann Shaffer; Annie Barrows |
| Gulag Archipelago, The | Aleksandr Slozhenitsyn |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Gunslinger, The | Stephen King |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| Handmaid’s Tale, The | Margaret Atwood |
| Hangsaman | Jackson |
| Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales | Hans Christian Anderson |
| Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami | Haruki Murakami |
| Haroun & the Sea of Stories | Salman Rushdie/Paul BirkbeckIllus |
| Harriet the Spy | Louise Fitzhugh |
| Harry Potter (Series) | J. K. Rowling |
| Hatchet | Gary Paulsen |
| Haunting of Hill House, The | Shirley Jackson |
| Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The | Carson McCullers |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A | Dave Eggers |
| Heartburn | Nora Ephron |
| Help, The | Kathryn Stockett |
| Henry IV, Part I | William Shakespeare |
| Henry IV, Part II | William Shakespeare |
| Henry V | William Shakespeare |
| Herzog | Saul Bellow |
| High Fidelity | Nick Hornby |
| Hillbilly Elegy | JD Vance |
| His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman | Philip Pullman |
| Historian, The | Elizabeth Kostova |
| Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The | Douglas Adams |
| Hobbit, The | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Holes | Louis Sachar |
| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
| Hopscotch | Julio Cortázar |
| Hot Zone, The | Richard Preston |
| Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Jamie Ford |
| Hound of the Baskervilles, The | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Hour of the Star, The | Clarice Lispector |
| Hours, The | Michael Cunningham |
| House Made of Dawn | N. Scott Momaday |
| House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski |
| House of Mirth, The | Edith Wharton |
| House of Sand and Fog | Andre Dubus III |
| House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer |
| House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| House of the Spirits, The | Isabel Allende |
| House on Mango Street, The | Sandra Cisneros |
| Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson |
| How Green Was My Valley | Richard Llewellyn |
| How I Live Now | Meg Rosoff |
| How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents | Julia Alvarez |
| How the Other Half Lives | Jacob Riis |
| How to Be a Victorian | Ruth Goodman |
| How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe | Charles Yu |
| Howards End | E.M. Forster |
| Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
| Howl’s Moving Castle | Diana Wynne Jones |
| Human Comedy, The | William Saroyan |
| Hunchback of Notre Dame, The | Victor Hugo |
| Hunger Games, The (Series) | Suzanne Collins |
| Husband’s Secret, The | Liane Moriarty |
| I Am Malala | Malala Yousafzai |
| I Am the Cheese | Robert Cormier |
| I Am the Messenger | Marcus Zusak |
| I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith |
| I Know This Much Is True | Wally Lamb |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Joanne Greenberg |
| If on a Winters Night a Traveller | Vintage Calvino |
| Iliad, The | Homer |
| Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The | Rebecca Skloot |
| Importance of Being Earnest, The | Oscar Wilde |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote |
| In the Time of the Butterflies | Julia Alvarez |
| In the Woods | Tara French |
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace |
| Inheritance of Loss, The | Kiran Dasai |
| Interestings, The | Meg Wolitzer |
| Internment | Samira Ahmed |
| Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Interview With the Vampire | Anne Rice |
| Invention of Wings, The | Sue Monk Kidd |
| Invisible Circus, The | Jennifer Egan |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Ironweed | William Kennedy |
| Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? | And Other Concerns |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O’Dell |
| It | Stephen King |
| Ivanhoe | Walter Scott |
| Jamaica Inn | Daphne Du Maurier |
| James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë |
| Japanese Lover, The | Isabel Allende |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| Joy Luck Club, The | Amy Tan |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy |
| Julie and Julia | Julie Powell |
| Julie of the Wolves | Jean Craighead George |
| Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare |
| Jungle Book, The | Rudyard Kipling |
| Jungle, The | Upton Sinclair |
| Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Killers of the Flower Moon | Grann |
| Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
| Kindred | Octavia E. Butler |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| Kiss Before Dying, A | Ira Levin |
| Kiss Quotient, The | Helen Hoang |
| Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain |
| Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| Lais of Marie De France, The | Marie De France |
| Language of Flowers | Vanessa Diffenbaugh |
| Last Samurai, The | Helen DeWaitt |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| Left Hand of Darkness, The | Ursula K. LeGuin |
| Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The | Washington Irving |
| Les Miserables | Victor Hugo |
| Less | Andrew Sean Greer |
| Lesson Before Dying, A | Ernest J. Gaines |
| Letter From Birmingham City Jail | Martin Luther King Jr |
| Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Liars’ Club: A Memoir, The | Mary Karr |
| Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The | Laurence Sterne |
| Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, The | Marie Kondo |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
| Light Between Oceans: A Novel, The | M.L. Stedman |
| Like Water for Chocolate | Laura Esquivel |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders |
| Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The | C.S. Lewis |
| Little Bee | Chris Cleave |
| Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng |
| Little House on the Prairie (Series) | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Little Men | Louisa May Alcott |
| Little Prince, The | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| Little Princess, A | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Little Stranger, The | Sarah Waters |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The | Sherman Alexie |
| Long Fatal Love Chase, A | Louisa May Alcott |
| Long Goodbye, The | Raymond Chandler |
| Long Way Down, A | Nick Hornsby |
| Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, A | Ishmael Beah |
| Look at Me | Jennifer Egan |
| Looking for Alaska | John Green |
| Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, The | Lawrence Wright |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| Lord of the Rings, The (Trilogy) | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Lottery, The | Shirley Jackson |
| Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Freeman-Mitford |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Love Medicine | Louise Erdrich |
| Lovely Bones, The | Alice Sebold |
| Lover, The | Marguerite Duras |
| Luckiest Girl Alive | Jessica Knoll |
| Lucky Jim | Jim Dixon |
| Lucy | Jamaica Kincaid |
| Luminaries, The | Eleanor Catton |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
| Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand | Helen Simonson |
| Maltese Falcon, The | Dashiell Hammett |
| Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The | Oscar Hijuelos |
| Man Called Ove, A | Fredrik Backman |
| Man of the People, A | Chinua Achebe |
| Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | Oliver Sacks |
| Man Who Was Thursday, The | G.K. Chesterton |
| Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli |
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen |
| Manual for Cleaning Women, A | Lucia Berlin |
| March: Book One | John Lewis |
| Martian, The | Andy Weir |
| Mary Poppins | P.L. Travers |
| Matilda | Roald Dahl |
| Maurice | E.M. Forster |
| Maus: The Complete Maus | Art Spiegelman |
| Mayor of Casterbridge, The | Thomas Hardy |
| Me Before You | Jojo Moyes |
| Medea | Euripides |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden |
| Memories of a Catholic Girlhood | Mary McCarthy |
| Merchant of Venice, The | William Shakespeare |
| Metamorphosis and Other Stories | Franz Kafka |
| Metamorphosis, The | Franz Kafka |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt |
| Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| Midsummer Night’s Dream, A | William Shakespeare |
| Milk and Honey | Rupi Kaur |
| Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The | Kate Dicamillo |
| Miseducation of Cameron Post, The | Emily M. Danforth |
| Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | Ransom Riggs |
| Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Winifred Watson |
| Misty of Chincoteague | Marguerite Henry |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe |
| Moloka’i | Alan Brennert |
| Monkey’s Paw, The | W. W. Jacobs |
| Moonstone, The | Wilkie Collins |
| Mr. Popper’s Penguins | Richard and Florence Atwater |
| Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O’Brien |
| Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Agatha Christie |
| My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| My Bondage and My Freedom | Frederick Douglass |
| My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante |
| My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George |
| My Sister, the Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite |
| My Sister’s Keeper | Jodi Picoult |
| Mystic River | Dennis Lehane |
| Name of the Rose, The | Umberto Eco |
| Namesake, The | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Narrative of Sojourner Truth | Sojourner Truth |
| Native Son | Richard Wright |
| Naya Nuki | Ken Thomasma |
| Nectar in a Sieve | Kamala Markandaya |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman |
| New Grub Street | George Gissing |
| Nickel and Dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Night | Elie Wiesel |
| Night Circus, The | Erin Morgenstern |
| Nightingale, The | Kristin Hannah |
| Nights at the Circus | Angela Carter |
| No Exit (Huis Clos) | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| No Future Without Forgiveness | Desmond Tutu |
| No One Belongs Here More Than You | Miranda July |
| No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, The | Alexander McCall Smith |
| North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen |
| Northern Light, A | Jennifer Donnelly |
| Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami |
| Notes From a Small Island | Bill Bryson |
| Now We are Six | A. A. Milne |
| Number the Stars | Lois Lowry |
| NW | Zadie Smith |
| Ocean at the End of the Lane, The | Neil Gaiman |
| Odyssey, The | Homer |
| Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| Old Man and the Sea, The | Ernest Hemingway |
| Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| Omnivore’s Dilemma, The | Michael Pollan |
| On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong |
| On Immunity: An Inoculation | Eula Biss |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| Once and Future King, The | T.H. White |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| One for the Money | Janet Evanovic |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Optimists Daughter, The | Eudora Welty |
| Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | Jeanette Winterson |
| Orchardist, The | Amanda Coplin |
| Orlando | Virginia Woolf |
| Orphan Master’s Son, The | Adam Johnson |
| Orphan Train | Christina Baker Kline |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood |
| Oscar and Lucinda | Peter Carey |
| Othello | William Shakespeare |
| Other Boleyn Girl, The | Philippa Gregory |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| Out of Africa | Karen Blixen |
| Outlander | Diana Gabaldon |
| Pact, The | Jodi Picoult |
| Palace Walk | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Passage to India, A | E.M. Forster |
| Passing | Nella Larson |
| Pastoralia | George Saunders |
| Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus | Orson Scott Card |
| Pearl, The | John Steinbeck |
| Pentateuch, The | I. Thomas Holdcroft |
| People in the Trees, The | Hanya Yanagihara |
| People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks |
| People’s History of the United States, A | Howard Zinn |
| Percy Jackson Series | Rick Riordan |
| Perfume | Patrick Suskind |
| Perks of Being a Wallflower, The | Stephen Chbosky |
| Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi |
| Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi | Marlene Satrapi |
| Personal Matter, A | Kanzaburō Ōe |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen |
| Pet Sematary | Stephen King |
| Peter Pan | James Barrie |
| Phantom of the Opera, The | Gaston Leroux |
| Phantom Tollbooth, The | Norton Juster |
| Phantom Toolbooth, The | Jules Feiffer |
| Pickwick Papers, The | Charles Dickens |
| Picture of Dorian Grey, The | Oscar Wilde |
| Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard |
| Pillars of the Earth, The | Ken Follett |
| Pippi Longstocking | Astred Lindgren |
| Plague, The (La peste) | Albert Camus |
| Play It as It Lays | Joan Didion |
| Poems of Emily Dickinson, The | Emily Dickinson |
| Poems: Edna St. Vincent Millay | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Poisonwood Bible, The | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| Possession | Byatt |
| Post Office | Charles Bukowski |
| Prayer for Owen Meany, A | John Irving |
| Price of Salt, or Carol, The | Patricia Highsmith |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The | Muriel Spark |
| Princess Academy | Shannon Hale |
| Princess Bride, The | William Goldman |
| Princess Saves Herself in This One, The | Amanda Lovelace |
| Priory of the Orange Tree, The | Samantha Shannon |
| Private Peaceful | Michael Morpurgo |
| Pulphead Essays | John Jeremiah Sullivan |
| Purple Hisbiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw |
| Queen of the Night | Alexander Chee |
| Queenie | Candice Carty-Williams |
| Quiet | Susan Cain |
| Quiet American, The | Graham Greene |
| Rabbit at Rest | John Updike |
| Rabbit Is Rich | John Updike |
| Rabbit, Run | John Updike |
| Ragtime | E.L. Doctorow |
| Raisin in the Sun, A | Lorraine Hansberry |
| Ramayana, The | Valmiki |
| Ramona the Pest | Beverly Cleary |
| Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx | Adrian Nicole Leblanc |
| Reader, The | Bernhard Schlink |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline |
| Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier |
| Red and the Black, The | Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Red Badge of Courage, The | Stephen Crane |
| Red Tent, The | Anita Diamant |
| Red, White & Royal Blue | Casey Mcquiston |
| Redefining Realness | Janet Mock |
| Redwall | Brian Jacques |
| Reef, The | Edith Wharton |
| Remains of the Day, The | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Return of Sherlock Holmes, The | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy |
| Return of the Soldier, The | Rebecca West |
| Revolutionary Road | Vintage Yates |
| River Between, The | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o |
| Road, The | Cormac McCarthy |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms | Luo Guanzhong |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare |
| Romola | George Eliot |
| Room | Emma Donoghue |
| Room of One’s Own, A | Virginia Woolf |
| Room With a View, A | E. M. Forster |
| Roots | Alex Haley |
| Rosie Project, The | Graeme Simsion |
| Round House, The | Louise Erdrich |
| Rubyfruit Jungle | Rita Mae Brown |
| Runaway | Alice Munro |
| Sacre Bleu | Christopher Moore |
| Salvage the Bones | Jesmyn Ward |
| Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood | Benjamin Alire Saenz |
| Savage Detectives, The | Roberto Bolano |
| Scarlet Letter, The | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Scarlett Pimpernel, The | Baroness Emmuska Orcey |
| Schindler’s Ark | Thomas Keneally |
| Scoop | Evelyn Waugh |
| Sea, the Sea, The | Irish Murdoch |
| Secret Garden, The | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Secret History, The | Donna Tartt |
| Secret Keeper, The | Kate Morton |
| Secret Life of Bees, The | Sue Monk Kidd |
| Selection, The | Kiera Cass |
| Sellout, The | Paul Beatty |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| Sense of an Ending, The | Julian Barnes |
| Separate Peace, A | John Knowles |
| Shadow of the Wind, The | Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
| She’s Come Undone | Wally Lamb |
| Shining, The | Stephen King |
| Shipping News, The | E. Annie Proulx |
| Shirley | Charlotte Brontë |
| Shoemaker’s Wife, The | Adriana Trigiani |
| Short History of Nearly Everything, A | Bill Bryson |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse |
| Sign of the Beaver, The | Elizabeth George Speare |
| Sign of the Four, The | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Silas Marner | George Eliot |
| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
| Singing Tree, The | Kate Seredy |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Simon Armitage |
| Sister Outsider | Audre Lorde |
| Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, The | Ann Brashares |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Slouching Towards Bethlehem | Joan Didion |
| Small Island | Andrea Levy |
| Snow Child, The | Eowyn Ivey |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See |
| So Long a Letter | Mariama Bâ |
| Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, The | Madeline Miller |
| Songs of the Humpback Whale | Jodi Picoult |
| Sons and Lovers | D.H. Lawrence |
| Sophie’s Choice | Stephen King |
| Sound and the Fury, The | Leslie Feinberg |
| Sparrow, The | Mary Doria Russell |
| Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson |
| Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card |
| Spy Who Came in From the Cold, The | John Le Carré |
| Stand, The | Stephen King |
| Stargirl | Jerry Spinelli |
| Station Eleven | Emily St John Mandel |
| Still Alice | Lisa Genova |
| Stone Butch Blues | Leslie Feinberg |
| Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, The | Gabrielle Zevin |
| Story of My Life, The | Helen Keller |
| Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Stranger, The (L’étranger) | Albert Camus |
| Streetcar Named Desire, A | Tennessee Williams |
| Stuart Little | E.B. White |
| Study in Scarlet, A | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Suitable Boy, A | Vikram Seth |
| Summer Book, The | Tove Jansson |
| Sun Also Rises, The | Ernest Hemingway |
| Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, A | David Foster Wallace |
| Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome |
| Swamplandia | Karen Russell |
| Swann’s Way | Marcel Proust |
| Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The | Alan Bradley |
| Swiss Family Robinson, The | Johann David Wyss |
| Sympathizer, The | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| Tale for the Time Being, A | Ruth Ozeki |
| Tale of Genji, The | Murasaki Shikibu |
| Tale of Two Cities, A | Charles Dickens |
| Talented Mr. Ripley, The | Patricia Highsmith |
| Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin |
| Taming of the Shrew, The | William Shakespeare |
| Tempest, The | William Shakespeare |
| Ten Thousand Doors of January, The | Alix E. Harrow |
| Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The | Anne Brontë |
| Tender Is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Tenderness | Robert Cormier |
| Tess of the D’urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| Thank You, Jeeves | P.G. Wodehouse |
| The Chosen | Chaim Potok |
| The Complete Stories | Flannery O’Connor |
| Theban Plays, The | Sophocles |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| There There | Tommy Orange |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe |
| Things They Carried, The | Tim O’Brien |
| Thirteen Reasons Why | Jay Asher |
| Thirteenth Tale, The | Diane Setterfield |
| This Is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar |
| This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Thorn Birds, The | Colleen McCullough |
| Thousand Acres, A | Jane Smiley |
| Thousand Splendid Suns, A | Khaled Hosseini |
| Three Musketeers, The | Alexandre Dumas |
| Throne of the Crescent Moon | Saladin Ahmed |
| Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll |
| Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll |
| Time Machine, The | H.G. Wells |
| Time to Kill, A | John Grisham |
| Time Traveler’s Wife, The | Audrey Niffenegger |
| Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | John Le Carré |
| Tipping Point, The | Malcom Gladwell |
| Tipping the Velvet | Sarah Waters |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| Tobacco Road | Erskine Caldwell |
| Tortilla Flat | John Steinbeck |
| Town Like Alice, A | Nevil Shute |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A | Betty Smith |
| Trial and Death of Socrates, The | Socrates |
| Trial, The | Franz Kafka |
| Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne |
| True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The | Avi |
| Trumpet of the Swan, The | E.B. White |
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt |
| Tuesdays With Morrie | Mitch Albom |
| Turn of the Screw, The | Henry James |
| Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The | Ayana Mathis |
| Twelve Years a Slave | Solomon Northup |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
| Twilight | Stephenie Meyer |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Unbearable Lightness of Being, The | Milan Kundera |
| Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Under the Udala Trees | Chinelo Okparanta |
| Under the Volcano | Malcom Lowry |
| Underground Railroad, The | Colson Whitehead |
| Underworld | Don Delillo |
| Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven | Susan Jane Gilman |
| Universe in a Single Atom, The | Dalai Lama |
| Uprooted | Naomi Novik |
| Utopia | Thomas More |
| Valley of Fear, The | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline Susann |
| Vanity Fair | William Thackeray |
| Vegetarian, The | Han Kang |
| Velveteen Rabbit, The | Margery Williams |
| Vendor of Sweets, The | R.K. Narayan |
| Villette | Charlotte Bronte |
| Virgin Suicides, The | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Visit From the Goon Squad, A | Jennifer Egan |
| Volcano Lover, The | Susan Sontag |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| Waiting for the Barbarians | J. M. Coetzee |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| Walk in the Woods, A | Bill Bryson |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Warmth of Other Suns, The | Isabel Wilkerson |
| Waste Land and Other Poems, The | T. S. Eliot |
| Watchers | Dean Koontz |
| Watchmen | Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons |
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen |
| Water-Babies, The | Charles Kingsley |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, The | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| Waves, The | Virginia Woolf |
| Way We Live Now, The | Anthony Trollope |
| We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Shirley Jackson |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver |
| Wedding Date, The | Jasmine Guillory |
| Wedding, The | Dorothy West |
| Weight of Water, The | Anita Shreve |
| Westing Game, The | Ellen Raskin |
| What Maisie Knew | Henry James |
| What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | Raymond Carver |
| When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi |
| When We Were Orphans | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| When We Were Very Young | A. A. Milne |
| When You Reach Me | Rebecca Stead |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls |
| Where’d You Go, Bernadette | Maria Semple |
| White Noise | Don DeLillo |
| White Teeth | Zadie Smith |
| White Tiger, The | Aravind Adiga |
| Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead | Barbara Comyns |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
| Whose Body? | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| Wicked | Gregory Maguire |
| Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys |
| Wild Sheep Chase, A | Haruki Murakami |
| Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China | Jung Chang |
| Wind in the Willows, The | Kenneth Grahame |
| Wind Up Bird Chronicle, The | Haruki Murakami |
| Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
| Winnie-The-Pooh | A. A. Milne |
| Winter Sea, The | The Slains #1 |
| Witch of Blackbird Pond, The | Elizabeth George Spear |
| Witches, The | Roald Dahl |
| Wittgenstein’s Mistress | David Markson |
| Wives and Daughters | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| Wizard of Earthsea, A | Ursula K. LeGuin |
| Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel |
| Woman in the Dunes, The | Kobo Abe |
| Woman in White, The | Wilkie Collins |
| Woman Warrior, The | Maxine Wong Kingston |
| Women in Love | D.H. Lawrence |
| Women of Brewster Place, The | Gloria Naylor |
| Wonder | R.J. Palacio |
| Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The | L. Frank Baum |
| World According to Garp, The | John Irving |
| World War Z | Max Brooks |
| Wrath and the Dawn, The | Renee Ahdieh |
| Wrinkle in Time, A | Madeleine L’engle |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë |
| Xenocide | Orson Scott Card |
| Year of Magical Thinking, The | Joan Didion |
| Yellow Wallpaper, The | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| Yes Please | Amy Poehler |
| Yiddish Policemen’s Union, The | Michael Chabon |
| Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, The | Anton DiSclafani |
| You Shall Know Our Velocity | Dave Eggers |
| Zami: A New Spelling of My Name | Audre Lorde |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert Pirsig |
| Zlata’s Diary | Zlata Filipović |
| Zorro | Isabel Allende |
The Old Wolf has Spoken
Playing in the World Game 
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