Cosmos’s Reading List 2022
1001 Books to Read Before You Die List
books read during 2018
books read during 2018
Goals: 100 Books
I have been reading the classics all year.
Read Classics
One Thriller Per Month
One history/politics book per month
Read A Lot More Poetry
Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish
Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean
I will year try to finish reading classic books. I have a collection from Kindle of 50 books to read before you die, in three volumes – 15O books in total see the list below. I have read many of them already which I have noted. As I read them, I will add them to the chronological listing below, also have the Harvard classic. Had a hard copy set but donated it, have to read it on Kindle alas. I will also continue to read lots of poetry from the Mod Po class, will do the slo-mo courses then re-do it in September focusing on
Reading the additional poems, I did not last time in Mod Po Plus.
The List
January
Books
George Elliot Middlemarch
Dale Brown Starfire
AC Fuller Crime Beat # 4 Las Vegas
Poems
Writing com Basic Haiku
Basho The Short Night Ending
Basho A Morning Of Snow
Basho Old Village
Jane Reichhold The Whole Sky
Jane Reichhold Lightning
Jane Reichhold Goldfish
Jane Reichhold The Poet’s Hand
Other Poems
Paula T. Calhoun A New Hope
Christina Rossetti Up-Hill
Sarah Howe (for Stephen Hawking) Relativity
Shel Silverstein Frozen Dream
Marie Elena Good MARIES ENTRANCE:
Walter J. Wojtanik REMEMBER
Stacia M Flee “Post-Apocalyptic”
Tempus Ambigua (Rhyme Royal)
Lady and Louis Two Silver Rings
Mountainwriter49 Forever in my Heart
Judi Van Gorder Press Conference
Stark Carousel Ride
Robert E Brewer The Day After
Marie Elena Good First, Do No Harm
Walter J. Wojtanik Change of Pace
Walt Whitman Song of Myself
Julius Norton Phantom Tollbooth
Pantoum Form
Sally-Ann Roberts, It All Started With A Packet of Seeds
Marie Summers Celestial Dreams
Chellie Wood Dance in The Rain
Dendrobia Osprey
Marie Summers Seasonal Whispers
Four Haiku
Basho The Poet’s Hand
Basho Lightning Stabs the Darkness
Basho A Crow Sits on a Bare Branch
a Grassy Meadow
Mod Po mini-course poems
Caroline Bergal Cat in One’s Throat
Caroline Bergal Not Tale
Writing Com
Alfred Lord Tennyson Summer Night
Langton Hughes Calm Sea
Emily Bronte Spell Bound
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Fredericksburg VA Civil War
Poem
Jeff W. Watson Ghosts of the Past
Joyce Kilmer Fairyland
Writing Com Laturne
Crystal Rose Swift Winds Blow Laturne
Crystal Rose Opens Revealing Laturne
Crystal Rose Sun rises Laturne
February
Books
– What’s Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
Poems
Tannka writing com 2-3-2022
Philip Appleman Somber Girl
Beman Books on Shelf
Machi Tawara Freezing My Smile
Yukitsuna Sasaki The Bloom Finished
Takuboku Ishikawa Lying on the Dune Sand
Masaoka Shiki “The bucket’s water
Tekkan Yosano it cries and cries
Akiko Yosano “into a pair of stars
Shūji Miya Slowly Inside Me
Yoshimi Kondō Casting Shadows
Writing com Say It Eight Reading List
Karina Borowicz September Tomatoes
William Carlos Williams Red Wheel Barrel
John Donne’s No Man Is an Island
Anais Nin Risk
Lucille Clifton blessing the boats
Zegel Writing com
Judi Van Gorder An Old Hymn Still Singing
Robert Lee Brewer Give Me A Reason
Sasha A. Palmer A Zejel For You (Poem)
Carol R Ward The Wild Hunt
Mod Po mini-course poems
Lee Li-Young Immigrant Blues
Paul Celan Microliths”
Sappho To My Mother
Eavan Boland Habitual Grief
Eavan Boland A Different Light
3/23/2022 Writing Com
Gwendolyn Brooks To Be In Love
Gwendolyn Brooks A Sunset of the City
Gwendolyn Brooks The Mother
March
Jules Verne in the year 2899
Grant Allen – What’s Bred in the Bone
Lucius Apuleius The Golden Ass
Writing com examples
Edgar Allen Poe The Raven
Robert Service The Cremation of Sam Mc Gee
Oscar Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol
John Keats The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead
Amy Lowell Wind
Dorothea MacKellar Fire
Hex Sonnetta form
Andrea Dietrich The Bringer of Spring’s Cheer
Jan Turner Under the Canopy
Haiku Sonnet writing com examples
David Marshall Haiku Crown: Fall
Departures
Signal to Noise
Meeting
Crowds
Talking Together
Channels
Common Regard
North and Sedgewick
First Girlfriend
Remembering
The Big Top
The Other Room
from Writing com newsletter 4/23/2022
Edith Wharton An Autumn Sunset
Edith Wharton Life
Edith Wharton Chartres
Longfellow’s Prologue to Evangeline
Elizabeth Bishop” Cape Breton Island.
Even Rudyard Kipling “The Song of the Cities”
Robert Frost” The Mountain”.
E Pauline Johnson “Guard of the Eastern Gate”
NaPoWriMo
Gerard Manley Hopkins Peace
Gerard Manley Hopkins Ash Brough
Mod Po mini-course poems
April
Books
Alex Berenson Secret Soldier
Ted Bell Warrior
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
Poems
The Rondel, THE WANDERER by Henry Austin Dobson
Judi Van Gorder Falling for the French
Short Rondel The Rondelet
| August’s end by Barbara Hartman –
Robert Murtaugh,(Fader. Loneliness |
The Rondine
| Happy Mother’s Day The Triolet, Triolet by Ernest Henley;British Poet (1849-1903) |
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| Judi Van Gorder Cat Tale |
Villanelle
| Dylan Thomas 1952 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by |
~Judi Van Gorder. Villanelle for Scottie
Jane Kenyon February: Thinking of Flowers
Jane Kenyon Let Evening Come
Jane Kenyon, Briefly It Enters and Briefly Speaks
Famous Limericks
Anonymous There Once Was A Lady From Lynn
Lewis Carrol Lady Of Station From Alice In Wonderland
Judi Van Gorder The Parrot Was Messy And Loud;
Judi Van Gorder An Irishman Came To My City–Judi Van Gorder
Edward Lear Young Lady Of Dorking
Edward Lear’s There Was An Old Man With A Beard
Edward Lear There Was A Young Person Of Crete,
Dixon Lanier Merrit A Wonderful Bird Is The Pelican
Mark Twain A Man Hired By John Smith And Co:”
Ron Rubin There Was An Old Drunkard Of Devon,
Matt Salter’s There Was A Young Lady Of Nice
Matt Salter That Very Same Lady
Matt Salter But Her Husband Cried “Cease”
Monica Sharman Relentless, Insatiable Deadlines!
Unknown There Was A Young Lady Of Niger
NaPoWriMo
Kay Ryan Token Loss
Kay Ryan Blue China Doornob
Kay Ryan Houdini
Writing Com Newsletter
William Blake Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
Goerge Cooper’s “Come, Little Leaves”.
George Cooper “ I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.”
RL Stevenson “Child Garden of Verse -How do you like to go up in a swing,”
Lord Alfred Tennyson “Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!”
Love Poems Poetry Foundation source poem for Love Cento
Jake Cosmos Aller Million Ways to Say I Love You
Joshua Beckman Lying in bed I think about you,
Anne Bradstreet To my husband
Valentine Lorna Dee Cervantes
Ben Jonson Song: to Celia [“Drink to me only with thine eyes”]
Morris Egan Bar Napkin Sonnet #11
Jennifer Michael Hecht Love Explained
Robert Herrick Upon Julia’s Breasts
John Keats‘s The Day is Gone
William Shakespeare Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all:
William Shakespeare‘s The Spring
(from Love’s Labours Lost)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
John Updike Penumbrae
Writing com Writer’s Cramp
Trijan Refrain
Jan Turner
Sweet Destiny
Example #1:
Seaside Lament
Example #2:
Margaret R. Smith
The Melody of Trees
Example #3:
Mod Po mini-course poems
May
Articles
WP Organization of the US – very powerful analysis
Books
Ted Bell Warlord
Ted Bell Warriors
Poems
Poets Place Writing Com 5-20-2022
Examples
George Gordon (Lord) Byron, 1820 Francesca Of Rimini
Robert Frost, I Have Become Acquainted With The Night
George Gordon (Lord) Byron, 1820 Francesca Of Rimini
Dusty Grein, 2015 Loud Today
Dusty Grein, 2016 A Mist Shrouded Path
Lord Shelly Oh Wild West
Linda Newman Faith (Terza Rima Sonnet)
Robert Duncan the Horse
Ode Sappho
Mod Po mini-course poems
Clerihew Poems
James Dean Chase Dickie Dare
James Dean Chase Lady Gaga
Judi Van Gorder King of Pop
Frank Gibbard Royal Kate Middelton
Edmund Clerihew Bently Sir Humphrey Davy
James & Marie Summers Garfield the Cat
Alan McAlpine Douglas’s The Road Runner
Diana Dalton Star Trek’s frowning Klingon Worf
James Dean Chase Corporal Klinger,
Personification poems Writing com
Nancy Willard Two Sunflowers
William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Paul Revere’s Ride
Shel Silverstein What If
June
Books
Jane Austin Northanger Abbey
Jane Austin- Lady Susan
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Lyman Frank Baum
The Art of Public Speaking Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish
Stuart Woods Class Act
Poems
Frosted Fantasy Irish Rain
Camp 39 David Schneider
Robert Frost Going for Water
Poetry Newsletter Story Lady
Wilfred Owen The End
Wilfred Owen Winter Song
Wilfred Owen Spring Offensive
Glenda L. Hand Autumn
Glenda L. Hand Love
Cynthia Kay Armstrong Cards
Glenda L. Hand Change of Seasons (Mirror Oddquain)
Glenda L. Hand Celebration (Butterfly Oddquain)
Claire Litchfield, At Last, I’ve Let Go (Crown Oddquain)
Parallelogram de Crystalline is a poetry form created by Karan Naidu. This form consists of 4 verses of 3 lines each. The syllable count for each stanza is 3, 6, and 9. In this style of poem, the beauty of a lover is compared with nature and described…
Writing com Poetry newsletter Stormy Lady’s Poems
Walter de la Mare’s The Song Of Shadows
Walter de la Mare Alone
Walter de la Mare When the Rose is Faded
Walter de la Mare Fare Well
Rictameter Poems Poets Place
Beauty Jason Wilkins
Satin Jason Wilkins
Mrs. Aubrey Steedman’s Childhood
Marinela Reka Valentine’s Day
Tri-Fall
Jan Turner Destiny’s Starway*
Jan Turner Winter’s Passing (Tri-Fall)
Poetics A. R. Ammons
After Yesterday A. R. Ammons
- R. Ammons A. R. Ammons
The City Limits A. R. Ammons
Rapids A. R. Ammons
- R. Ammons
August Books
The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
– Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
Daniel De Foe Robinson Crusoe’s Second Voyage
Elmer Leonard Djibouti
James Roman demon crown E
Poems
Jack Kerouac Haiku
SeptemberBooks-
Daniel Defore The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Charles Dickens -The Pickwick Papers
Poems
Erin Holbrook Angels
Deborah P Kolodji Turquoise Thoughts
Marie Summers Cherry Blossoms
Mod Po poems
Emily Dickinson
Volcanoes are in Sicily
I never saw a moor
The brain within its groove
I taste a liquor never brewed
The brain—is wider than the sky
Tell all the truth
We learned the whole of love
Wild nights & she rose to his requirement
Alone and in a circumstance
The way hope builds his house
There is solitude in space
Love reckons by itself alone
The soul unto itself
A man may make a remark
From blank to blank
Much madness is a most divine sense
I felt a funeral, in my brain
The fairest home I ever knew
“he fumbles at your soul”:
Whitman
Canto 5 of “song of myself”:
Canto 14 of “song of myself”:
“out of the cradle endlessly rocking”:
“on the beach at night alone”:
“I hear it was charged against me”:
Divya victor’s “w is for Walt whitman’s soul”:
Mod Po Plus Week Two and Three
PART ONE: CID CORMAN
Enuresis”
It isn’t for want”:
PART TWO: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
2.1 read William Carlos Williams’s “Catholic Bells”: LINK TO TEXT2.2 listen to Williams perform “Catholic Bells”: LINK TO AUDIO2.3 watch discussion of “Catholic Bells”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]2.4 re-read Williams’s “Danse Russe”: LINK TO TEXT2.5 listen to the discussion of “Danse Russe” led by Al in New York (Sept. 2015): LINK TO AUDIO [OFFSITE COPIES: 1, 2 ]RAE ARMANTROUTThe Way”:
Second Person”
Speech Acts”:LORINE NIEDECKER“A Country’s Economics Sick”
Wilderness”
“Foreclosure”:
Easter Greeting
I married”Popcorn-can cover”
My Life by Water”:
Linnaeus in Lapland”
NNAH SANGHEE PARKDear Sir—
JASON ZUZGA
Connected”:
ELIZABETH WILLIS
Survey”
Address”:
September 9″:
“The Similitude of This Great Flower”
FRANCISCO X. ALARCÓN
From the Other Side of Night”
KIT ROBINSON
“Leaves of Class”
KATE COLBY
Middleman”:
Theory”
Homing”
JOHN PHILLIPS
This”
ALLEN GINSBERG
A Supermarket in California”
EVE L. EWING
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store”
YOLANDA WISHER
From Imhotep’s Kundalini”
ANGELA CARR
Straight as an Arrow”
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
Young Woman at a Window”
“Lines”
The Attic Which Is Desire”:
Spring and all
Spring and All (1923):
To Elsie”
The Red Wheelbarrow
Flowers by the Sea
Between Walls”
This Is Just to Say”
The Last Words of My English Grandmother
EZRA POUND
Ezra Pound’s “Portrait d’une Femme”: LINK TO TEXT
Cantico del Sol”: LINK TO TEXT
The River-Merchant’s Wife”: LINK TO TEXT
“In a Station of the Metro”
AMY LOWELL
Amy Lowell
The Letter”
RAE ARMANTROUT
“Anti-Short Story”
Postcards”
“Cheshire Poetics”
Emily Dickinson
“A narrow fellow in the grass” (#1096):
H.D.
“Sea Poppies”
“Epigram”:
“Moonrise”:
H.D.’s “Sheltered Garden”:
5.10 read H.D.’s “Night”
T.S. ELIOT
- S. Eliot’s The Waste Land:
HUGH MacDiarmid“A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”: LINK TO TEXT
WALLACE STEVENS
The Snow Man
“Large Red Man Reading”
“The Plain Sense of Things
The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”
Thirteen Ways.
“Disillusionment of 10 O’Clock”:
Anecdote of the Jar”
“Gray Room”
Lytle Shaw’s ”
The Confessions 2,”
WALLACE STEVENS
Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself”:
PETER GIZZI
Not Ideas
Archeophonics”:
MICHIYO NAKAMOTO & JAPANESE NEO-IMAGISM
Michiyo Nakamoto’s “Vernal Equinox”
Ayukawa’s “Man on a Bridge”
H.D.’s “OREAD”
JUNZABURO NISHIWAKI’S “RAIN”
EILEEN TABIOS & THE HAY(NA)KU
As If”:
PIERRE REVERDY
Pierre Reverdy’s “Still Life—Portrait”
Reverdy’s “Still Life—Portrait”:
MARIANNE MOORE
Marianne Moore’s “To a Snail”
imaginary gardens with real toads”
TONYA FOSTER
A Swarm of Bees in High Court
KEN TAYLOR
“Cloud in the Shape of Misunderstanding Haiku:
ROBERT CREELEY
“The Language”:
POET TOM LEONARD
Just to Let Yi No”:
CHRISTIE WILLIAMSON
Nantucket”
St. Catherine’s
ROSA ALCALÁ
Adventures in Food Processing” from Rosa Alcalaá’s Undocumentaries:
Land Art in the Silk City”
In documentary”
Stormy Lady’s Poetry Newsletter
Jean Toomer Georgia Dusk
Jean Toomer Evening Song
Jean Toomer November Cotton Flower
Tell Me, Jean Toomer
Writing Com Roundeau
Elliot Napier All Men Are Free
Judi Van Gorder Falling for the French
Judi Van Gorder Palette
Judi Van Gorder Wind on the Terrace
Henry Austin Dobson’s The Wanderer
Barbara Hartman August’s end
John Mc Crae Flanders Fields
Robert Murtaugh,(Fader) Loneliness
Pam Murray Springtime Air
Paul Murray As I Was Warmed
Marie Summer Winds of Chickamauga
Ed Whidmer Lincoln on the Verge
PoemsWriting com newsletter
Poet Unknown Set The World Rejoicing
Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Stormy lady newsletter
William Allingham’s The Fairies
William Allingham Down On The Shore
William Allingham A Gravestone
Writing com Poets place
Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
Elizbeth Bhishop One Art
Julie Wright RunawayAli Saad A Temple on Her BedNovemberBooksDicken Pickwick Papers
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky the Gambler
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Notes from the Underground
Arthur Conan Doyle- The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hounds of the Baskerville
From Camp H
Stephen Coonts Hong Kong
Poems Newsletter Writing com
Conrad Aiken All Lovely Things
Conrad Aiken Haunted Chambers
Conrad Aiken Nocturne Of Remembered SpringI.
II.
III.Edward Lear
Imitation of The Olden Poets
Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear’s The Dong With A Luminous Nose
Poems Writing com
PS Cottier Amorphous Solid
Robert Frost My November
Guest Poetry Place
Writing com
Emile Romano Sky Flowers
Emile Romano Gardening The Rose*
Books to read
George Martin a knight of the seven kingdoms
Brad Meltzer the 5th assassin
Stephen Coonts Assassin
John Grisham The Summons
James Rollins Map of Bones
Robert Ludlum The Jansen Directive
Michael Crichton Sphere
William Trevor Fools of Fortune
Christopher Michael Nuclear Orange Cupid is the Devil poems
Baldacci King and Maxwell
Bj Buckely’s In January, the Geese PSH contest award
Harvard Classics
The volumes are:
Bolded read
1) Franklin, Woolman, Penn
(2) Plato, Epictetus,
Marcus, Aurelius Meditations
(3) Bacon, Milton’s Prose, Thomas Browne
(4) Complete Poems in English: Milton
(5) Essays and English Traits: Emerson
6) Poems and Songs: Burns
(7) Confessions of St. Augustine. Imitation of Christ
(8) Nine Greek Dramas (9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny
(10) Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith
(11) Origin of Species: Darwin
(12) Plutarch’s Lives (13)
Aeneid Virgil (14)
Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes
(15)Pilgrim’s Progress. Donne
Herbert. Bunyan, Walton
(16) The Thousand and One Nights
(17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen
(18) Modern English Drama
(19) Faust, Egmont Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe
(20) The Divine Comedy: Dante
(21) I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni
(22) The Odyssey: Homer
(23) Two Years Before the Mast. Dana
(24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke
(25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and Addresses: J.S. Mill, T. Carlyle
(26) Continental Drama
(27) English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
(28) Essays. English and American
(29) Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin (
30) Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, Geikie
(31) Autobiography: Benvenuto, Cellini
(32) Literary and Philosophical Essays: Montaigne, Sainte Beuve, Renan, Lessing, Schiller, Kant, Mazzini
(33) Voyages and Travels
(34) Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes
(35) Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (36)
Machiavelli, More, Luther
(37) Locke, Berkeley, Hume
(38) Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
(39) Famous Prefaces
(40) English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray
(41) English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald
(42) English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman
(43) American Historical Documents
(44) Sacred Writings 1
(45) Sacred Writings 2
(46) Elizabethan Drama 1
(47) Elizabethan Drama 2
(48) Thoughts and Minor Works: Pascal
(49) Epic and Saga
50) Introduction, Readers Guide,
Federalist papers
50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die
Started reading the first one of volume 3Bolded indicated I have read it .
Vol 1
Alcott, Louisa May: Little women
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane: Emma
Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot
Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno
Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Cather, Willa: My Ántonia
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
Cleland, John: Fanny Hill
Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
Cummings, E. E.: The Enormous Room
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders
Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie
Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Eliot, George: Middlemarch
Fielding, Henry: Tom Jones
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave: Sentimental Education
Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier
Forster, E. M.: A Room With a View
Forster, E. M.: Howards End
Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls
Gorky, Maxim: The Mother
Haggard, H. Rider: King Solomon’s Mines
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
Homer: The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables
Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
Volume Two
Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]
– Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]
– Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]
– Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]
– The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
– A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll]
– The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]
– The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]
– The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]
– On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]
– Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
– The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]
– David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]
– Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]
– A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]
– The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
– A Room with a View [E. M. Forster]
– Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]
– Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]
– Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]
– Dubliners [James Joyce]
– The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]
– The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]
– The Sea Wolf [Jack London]
– The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
– Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
– Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
– The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]
– The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]
– The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]
– Swann’s Way [Marcel Proust]
– Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]
– Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
– The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.
Vol 3
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names-
What’s Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]
– The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]
– Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]
– Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
– Lady Susan [Jane Austen]
– The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]
– The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]
– The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]
– The Wisdom of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– Heretics [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Donnington Affair [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– The Innocence of Father Brown [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
– Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [John Cleland]
– The Moonstone [Wilkie Collins]
– Lord Jim [Joseph Conrad]
– The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
– The Pickwick Papers [Charles Dickens]
– A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]
– Notes From The Underground [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
– The Gambler par Fyodor [Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]
– The Lost World [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Sign of the Four [Arthur Conan Doyle]
– The Man in the Iron Mask [Alexandre Dumas]
– The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
– This Side of Paradise [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]
– Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
– King Solomon’s Mines [Henry Rider Haggard]
– The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Victor Hugo]
– Kim [Rudyard Kipling]
– Captains Courageous [Rudyard Kipling]
– The Jungle Book [Rudyard Kipling]
– Lady Chatterley’s Lover [David Herbert Lawrence]
– The Son of the Wolf [Jack London]
– The Einstein Theory of Relativity [Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]
– The Dunwich Horror [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
– At the Mountains of Madness [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
– The Prince [Niccolò Machiavelli]
– The Story Girl [Lucy Maud Montgomery]
– The Antichrist [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
– The Republic [Plato]
– The Last Man [Mary Shelley]
– Life On The Mississippi [Mark Twain]
– The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]
– In the Year 2889 [Jules Verne]
– Around the World in Eighty Days [Jules Verne]
– Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]
– Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [Lewis Wallace]
– Tales of Space and Time [H. G. Wells]
– Jacob’s Room [Virginia Woolf]
1001 books to read before you die
https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-2018
partial listing bold read
1001 Books to Read Before You Die List,
The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book
with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1318 books.
These books are mostly NOVELS. That is why there are no holy books, Shakespeare, etc.
THIS LIST IS COMPLETE. DO NOT ADD ANY BOOKS AND ALSO DO NOT REMOVE ANY. In case of doubt post a comment here and the people maintaining this list will take a look at it!
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To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
1984 1984
by George Orwell
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Eyre Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
The Little Prince The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Hobbit (The Lord of the… The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Animal Farm Animal Farm
by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Little Women Little Women
b Louisa May Alcott
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to t… The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by Douglas Adams
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
17
Brave New World Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
The Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Les Misérables Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Ha… The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid’s Tale, #1)
by Margaret Atwood
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Anna Karenina Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleber… The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Great Expectations Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Life of Pi Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
The Adventures of Sherlock … The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Curious Incident of the… The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Lolita Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Rebecca Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
The Bell Jar The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
Catch-22 Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by Anne Rice
Perfume: The Story of a Mur… Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
The Stranger The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Treasure Island Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
The Shining The Shining
by Stephen King
Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
In Cold Blood In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
The Hound of the Baskervill… The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Moby-Dick or, the Whale Moby-Dick or, the Whale
by Herman Melville
The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Time Machine The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
The Godfather (The Godfathe… The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
by Mario Puzo
66
Madame Bovary Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
A Prayer for Owen Meany A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and … Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
by Truman Capote
Through the Looking-Glass a… Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
by Lewis Carroll
Atonement Atonement
by Ian McEwan
Oliver Twist Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Middlesex Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Robinson Crusoe (Robinson C… Robinson Crusoe (Robinson Crusoe, #1)
by Daniel Defoe
The Unbearable Lightness of… The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
Gulliver’s Travels: Travels… Gulliver’s Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
by Jonathan Swift
The Three Musketeers (The D… The Three Musketeers (The D’Artagnan Romances #1)
by Alexandre Dumas
Watchmen Watchmen
by Alan Moore
On the Road On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Don Quixote Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The House of the Spirits The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Trial The Trial
by Franz Kafka
Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi L… Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by Astrid Lindgren
The Reader The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
The World According to Garp The World According to Garp
by John Irving
The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
Candide Candide
by Voltaire
The Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Notre-Dame de Paris | The H… Notre-Dame de Paris | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
The Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights
by Anonymous
Doctor Zhivago Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
The Idiot The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mansfield Park Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
The Plague The Plague
by Albert Camus
Things Fall Apart (The Afri… Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by Chinua Achebe
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Fahrenheit 451
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Twilight
The Alchemist
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Book Thief
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Little House in the Big Woods
The Secret Life of Bees
Black Beauty
My Sister’s Keeper
1001 Books to Read Before You Die List,
The books on Boxall’s list, which is found in the 5 editions of the published book
with a TOTAL NUMBER OF 1318 books.
These books are mostly NOVELS. That is why there are no holy books, Shakespeare, etc.
THIS LIST IS COMPLETE. DO NOT ADD ANY BOOKS AND ALSO DO NOT REMOVE ANY. In case of doubt post a comment here and the people maintaining this list will take a look at it!
The list can be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c…flag
BOLD read
1
To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
1984 1984
by George Orwell
4
The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6
Jane Eyre Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
The Little Prince The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Hobbit (The Lord of the… The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Animal Farm Animal Farm
by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Little Women Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
15
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to t… The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by Douglas Adams
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
17
Brave New World Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
18
Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
The Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Les Misérables Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Ha… The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid’s Tale, #1)
by Margaret Atwood
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Anna Karenina Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Geisha Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleber… The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Great Expectations Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Life of Pi Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
The Adventures of Sherlock … The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Curious Incident of the… The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Lolita Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Rebecca Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
The Bell Jar The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
Catch-22 Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
41
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s … One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Ken Kesey
42
The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Color Purple The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Ema by Jane Austen
Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by Anne Rice
b
Perfume: The Story of a Mur… Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
y Albert Camus
52
Treasure Island Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
ll Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
The Shining The Shining
by Stephen King
Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Persuasion Persuasion
by Jane Austen
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Poisonwood Bible The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
In Cold Blood In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
The Hound of the Baskervill… The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Moby-Dick or, the Whale Moby-Dick or, the Whale
by Herman Melville
The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Time Machine The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
The Godfather (The Godfathe… The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
by Mario Puzo
Madame Bovary Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
A Prayer for Owen Meany A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and … Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
by Truman Capote
Through the Looking-Glass a… Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
by Lewis Carroll
Atonement Atonement
by Ian McEwan
Oliver Twist Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Middlesex Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Robinson Crusoe (Robinson C… Robinson Crusoe (Robinson Crusoe, #1)
by Daniel Defoe
The Unbearable Lightness of… The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
Gulliver’s Travels: Travels… Gulliver’s Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
by Jonathan Swift
The Three Musketeers (The D… The Three Musketeers (The D’Artagnan Romances #1)
by Alexandre Dumas
Watchmen Watchmen
by Alan Moore
On the Road On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Don Quixote Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi L… Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
by Astrid Lindgren
The Reader The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
World According to Garp The World According to Garp
by John Irving
The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
Candide Candide
by Voltaire
The Call of the Wild The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Notre-Dame de Paris | The H… Notre-Dame de Paris | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
The Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights
by Anonymous
Doctor Zhivago Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
The Idiot The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mansfield Park Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Tess of the D’Urbervilles Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
The Plague The Plague
by Albert Camus
Things Fall Apart (The Afri… Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by Chinua Achebe
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Fahrenheit 451
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Twilight
The Alchemist
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Book Thief
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Little House in the Big Woods
The Secret Life of Bees
Black Beauty
My Sister’s Keeper
Charlotte’s Web
The Call of the Wild
Water for Elephants
The Princess Bride
The Kite Runner
The Pillars of the Earth
Illusions
Watership Down
Nice Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Harry Potter Box Set
Tuesdays with Morrie
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Ender’s Game
The Valley of Horses
It
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Screwtape Letters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The Clan of the Cave Bear
American Gods
The Stand
– “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” – Jean-Dominique Bauby
– “Hamlet” – William Shakespeare
– “Goodnight Opus” – Berkeley Breathed
– “The Devil in the White City” – Erik Larson
– “The Thief Lord” – Cornelia Funke
– “Indigo” – Alice Hoffman
– “Mythology” – Edith Hamilton
– “The Outsiders” – S.E. Hinton
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka (there is Kafka on the list, but this isn’t one of them)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde (if it’s a play, it’s probably not on the list, which is mostly novels)
The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, by Jacob Grimm
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry
Dune, by Frank Herbert
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho (again)
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan (the list is, I believe, strictly fiction)
New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven by Larry Niven
The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton by Larry Niven
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Doorways in the Sand by Robert Zelazny
Creatures of Light and Darkness by Rober Zelazny
Portrait of a Killer: Jack The Ripper – Case Cl… by Patricia Cornwell
The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short S… by Arthur C. Clarke
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
Carried Away: A Selection of Stories by Alice Munro
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
The Immaculate Conception by Gaetan Soucy
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Double Helix by J. Watson
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White H… by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Broken Government: How the Republi…by John W. Dean
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase… by James L. Swanson
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True… by Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier
Leviathan by Paul Auster
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri D’Aulaire
Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein
The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe (Poe is on the list three times, but not for this one.)
The Bible
Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown
Shogun, by James Clavell
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
A Child Called It, by Dave Pelzer
The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
White Oleander, by Janet Fitch
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls
Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
The Lottery and Other Stories, by Shirley Jackson
Love Story, by Erich Segal
Love You Forever, by Robert N. Munsch
John Adams, by David McCullough
Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt
Othello, by William Shakespeare
The Aeneid, by Virgil
Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
The World of Pooh, by A.A. Milne
Katherine, by Anya Seton
The Stand, by Stephen King (Mr. King is on, but only for The Shining.)
Daughter of the Forrest, by Juliet Marillier
World Without End, by Ken Follett
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Freakonomics, by Stephen D. Levitt
World War Z, by Max Brooks
The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Roots, by Alex Haley
House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III
The Canterbury Tales, by Barbara Cohen
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, by J.K. Rowling
The Ruins, by Scott B. Smith
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom
The Mammoth Hunters, by Jean Auel
Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
100 Love Sonnets, by Pablo Neruda
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Shadow Kiss, by Richelle Mead
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
The Shack, by William Young
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Urusula K. Le Guin
The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan
Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson
The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx
Le Morte d’Arthur, by Thomas Malory
Fail Safe, by Eugene Burdick
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
Graceling, by Kristin Cashore
Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
Ripley’s Game, by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley is on, but this one isn’t.)
Watchers, by Dean Koontz
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
The Twentieth Wife, by Indu Sundaresan
Angels in America, by Tony Kushner
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
1776, by David McCullough
The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov (Foundation is on, but the other two are not.)
Into the Wild, by Erin Hunter
The Republic, by Plato
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer
If I Die in a Combat Zone, by Tim O’Brien (The Things They Carried is on; this isn’t.)
Blood Promise, by Richelle Mead
Final Exit, by Derek Humphry
Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
Eleven Minutes, by Paulo Coelho
Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett
Frostbite, by Richelle Mead
The Zahir, by Paulo Coelho
The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas (Monte Cristo, Reine Margot, and Three Musketeers are in; this isn’t.)
Burned, by P.C. Cast
Ender’s Shadow, by Orson Scott Card
The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare (There is no Shakespeare on this list.)
Vampire Academy, by Richelle Mead
The Elephant Vanishes, by Haruki Murakami
The Painted Veil, by Somerset Maugham
The History of the Pelopponnesian War, by Thucydides
Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card
Le Grand Meaulnes, by Henri Alain-Fournier
Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer
Dark Rivers of the Heart, by Dean Koontz
The Dancing Wu Li Masters, by Gary Zukav
Starman Jones, by Robert Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land is on.)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne
The Last Olympian, by Rick Riordan
Maurice, by E.M. Forster
The Tale of Gilgamesh, by Anonymous
The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak
A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah
Chasing Vermeer, by Blue Balliett
Poison Study, by Maria V. Snyder
When Nietzsche Wept, by Irvin D. Yalom
Child of the Prophecy, by Juliet Marillier
Marley & Me, by John Grogan
The Color of Water, by James McBride
On Death and Dying, by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffennegger
The Onion Field, by Joseph Wambaugh
Insomnia, by Stephen King
Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous
The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
Amazing Grace, by Kathleen Norris
Battlefield Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard
The Three Questions, by Jon J. Muth
The Bonesetter’s Daughter, by Amy Tan
The Demigod Files, by Rick Riordan
The Study Series Bundle, by Maria V. Snyder
The Tea Rose, by Jennifer Donnelly
Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh
Free Speech for Me, by Nat Hentoff
Moloka’i, by Alan Brennert
From a Buick 8, by Stephen King
The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas
Nobody’s Fool, by Richard Russo like A Clockwork Orange.
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
The March, by E.L. Doctorow
A Lesson Before Dying, by Earnest Gaines
The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls
Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
The Histories, by Herodotus
Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike (Oddly enough, the other three are on the list)
Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain
The Essential Rumi, by Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
Duma Key, by Stephen King
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski
Ahab’s Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund
Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika, by Tony Kushner (plays aren’t generally on this list)
American Nightmare, by Jerrold M. Packard
The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
The Color of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, by Barbara Kingsolver
Richard III, by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare is not on this list)
The Plains of Passage, by Jean M. Auel
QB VII, by Leon Uris
The Shelters of Stone, by Jean M. Auel
Rain of Gold, by Victor Villasenor
Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke
Neither Here Nor There, by Bill Bryson
The Lightening Thief, by Rick Riordan
Sunshine, by Robin McKinley
The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan
The Titan’s Curse, by Rick Riordan
The Battle of the Labyrinth, by Rick Riordan
The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
Time Enough for Love, by Robert Heinlein
Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
The Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy, by Charles Nordhoff
The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
The Voyage of the Star Wolf
The War Against the Chtorr 1: A Matter For Men
by David Gerrold
The Holy Man
by Susan Trott
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Tiger Eyes
by Judy Blume
Song of the Sound
by ADAM ARMSTRONG
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
by Michael E. Porter
Atlantis Found
by Clive Cussler
Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction
by Mike Mignola
The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy: Second Edi…
by Vicki Iovine
NO: Why Kids–of All Ages–Need to Hear It and …
by David Walsh
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of …
by Robert A. Caro
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary C…
by Jim Collins
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of Presid…
by Vincent Bugliosi
Magic Study
Fire Study
Assassin Study
Storm Glass
Ice Study
by Maria V. Snyder
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Id…
by Gary Paulsen
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
by Douglas Coupland
Angels In America
by Joseph Kushner
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
by Alberto Manguel
A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry
by Mark Hertsgaard
The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay
The Solitaire Mystery, by Jostein Gaarder
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
Runaway: Stories, by Alice Munro
First They Killed My Father, by Loung Ung
Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo
Floyd on France, by Keith Floyd
“The Agony And The Ecstasy.”
“Dragon Slippers” by Jessica Day George.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone
Dragon Slippers, by Jessica Day George
Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam Harris
L’Espoir, by Andre Malraux
The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Maid, by Teresa Pierce Williston
Egyptian Sinuhet, by Mika Waltari
Princess of the Midnight Ball, by Jessica Day George
A Girl of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton Porter
The Worthing Saga, by Orson Scott Card
His Illegal Self, by Peter Carey
Magic Cottage, by James Herbert
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