Must Read – Booklist

With the summer soon approaching, I will finally have a LOT of time to read books again! Read them for fun, I mean…not just to expand my ability to analyze and interpret them from the viewpoint of the literary.

Below is a booklist I’ve found – a list of essential books that everybody who likes to read…should read. Classics. (Bolded titles have already been read)

1. The Great Gatsby
2. The Prince
3. Slaughter–House Five
4. 1984
5. The Republic Of Plato: Second Edition
6. The Brothers Karamazov
7. The Catcher in the Rye
8. The Wealth of Nations
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray
11. The Grapes of Wrath
12. Brave New World
13. How to Win Friends & Influence People
14. The Call of the Wild
15. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
16. The Swiss Family Robinson
17. The Dharma Bums
18. The Iliad and The Odyssey
19. Catch-22: A Novel
20. Walden
21. Lord of the Flies
22. The Master and Margarita
23. Bluebeard: A Novel
24. Atlas Shrugged – Read it once, but I want to re-read it. Not too easy to understand in 6th grade
25. The Metamorphosis
26. Another Roadside Attraction
27. White Noise
28. Ulysses
29. The Young Man’s Guide
30. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
31. Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond
32. Crime And Punishment
33. Steppenwolf
34. The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry
35. Don Quixote
36. Into the Wild
37. The Divine Comedy – Dante’s Inferno, Pergutorio, Paradiso
38. The Hobbit
39. Rough Riders
40. East of Eden
41. Leviathan
42. The Thin Red Line
43. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
44. Politics (by Aristotle)
45. Cyrano de Bergerac
46. Tropic of Cancer
47. The Crisis
48. The Naked and the Dead
49. To Kill A Mockingbird
50. The Art of Warfare
51. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
52. Pride and Prejudice
53. Animal Farm
54. Green Eggs and Ham
55. Fahrenheit 451
56. Night
57. Harry Potter (series)
58. Romeo and Juliet
59. Jane Eyre
60. The Chronicles of Narnia
61. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
62. The Giver
63. The Giving Tree
64. The Little Prince
65. Bible
66. Charlotte’s Web
67. The Kite Runner
68. Wuthering Heights
69. Little Women
70. Hamlet
71. Gone With the Wind
72. The Color Purple
73. Ender’s Game
74. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
75. One Hundred Years of Solitude
76. Flowers for Algernon
77. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
78. The Scarlet Letter
79. The Time Traveler’s Wife
80. A Thousand Splendid  Suns
81. Anne of Green Gables
82. The Book Thief
83. Siddartha
84. A Tale of Two Cities
85. Of Mice and Men
86. The Poisonwood Bible
87. Lolita
88. Life of Pi
89. Memoirs of a Geisha
90. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
91. Anna Karenina
92. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
93. The Good Earth
94. Where the Wild Things Are
95. The Hiding Place
96. All Quiet on the Western Front
97. A Clockwork Orange
98. The Stranger
99. The Stand
100. The Last Lecture
101. Three Cups of Tea
102. Invisible Man
103. The Old Man and the Sea
104. War and Peace
105. Man’s Search for Meaning
106. The Fountainhead
107. A Prayer for Owen Meany
108. The Red Tent
109. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
110. The Outsiders
111. A Christmas Carol
112. Mists of Avalon
113. Hatchet
114. Beyond Good and Evil
115. The Federalist Papers
116. Moby Dick
117. Frankenstein
118. The Boys of Summer
119. A Separate Peace
120. A Farewell to Arms
121. Robinson Crusoe
122. The Pearl
123. On The Road
124. Treasure Island
125. A Confederacy of Dunces
126. Foucault’s Pendulum
127. The Great Railway Bazaar
128. Fear and Trembling
129. Undaunted Courage
130. Paradise Lost
131. Cannery Bow
132. Into Thin Air
133. King Solomon’s Mines
134. The Idiots
135. A River Runs Through It
136. The Island of Dr. Moreau
137. The Count of Monte Cristo
138. The Red Badge of Courage
139. Lonesome Dove
140. The Maltese Falcon
141. The Long Goodbye
142. From Here to Eternity
143. Self Reliance

More to come.  Unformatted entry. I have class soon ❤