One of my dreams in life is to be able to lounge near the beach doing nothing but reading and eating fruits and vegetables. I imported this reading list hoping that I will be able to read most of them before I die
Achebe, Chinua.Things Fall Apart. (I read this one in college) Alvarez, Julia.How The García Girls Lost Their Accents. Anderson, Sherwood.Winesburg,Ohio. Angelou, Maya.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. (I read this one already but I could no longer remember it so I should probably reread it) Arnett, Peter.Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Bagdad. Austen, Jane.Pride and Prejudice. (I read this one when I was first year in college) Baker, Russell.Growing Up. Blais, Madeleine.In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle. Brontë, Charlotte.Jane Eyre. (This one to!) Brontë, Emily.Wuthering Heights. Brooks, Polly Schoyer.Queen Eleanor, Independent Spirit of The Medieval World: Biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Buck, Pearl S.The Good Earth. (I like this one very much!) Cather, Willa.O Pioneers! Cervantes, Miguel de.Don Quixote. Chaucer, Geoffrey.The Canterbury Tales. Cisneros, Sandra.The House On Mango Street. Conrad, Joseph.Lord Jim. Cooper, James Fenimore.Last of the Mohicans. Cormier, Robert.The Chocolate War. Crane, Stephen.The Red Badge of Courage. Defoe, Daniel.Robinson Crusoe. Delany, Sarah and Elizabeth.Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years. Dickens, Charles.David Copperfield. Dickens, Charles.Great Expectations. Dickens, Charles.A Tale of Two Cities. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.Crime and Punishment. Dreiser, Theodore.Sister Carrie. Du Maurier, Daphne.Rebecca. Eliot, George.Silas Marner. Ellison, Ralph.Invisible Man. Faulkner, William.As I Lay Dying. Faulkner, William.The Sound and the Fury. Fitzgerald, F. Scott.The Great Gatsby. Frank, Anne.Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Golding, William.Lord of the Flies. Grealy, Lucy.Autobiography of a Face. Gunther, John.Death Be Not Proud. Haley, Alex.Roots. Hardy, Thomas.Return of the Native. Hawthorne, Nathaniel.The House of Seven Gables. Hawthorne, Nathaniel.The Scarlet Letter. (Read this one too.) Heinlein, Robert A.Stranger in a Strange Land. Hemingway, Ernest.A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway, Ernest.For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway, Ernest.The Sun Also Rises. Homer.The Iliad. Homer.The Odyssey. Hugo, Victor.Les Misérables. Hurston, Zora Neale.Their Eyes Were Watching God. Joyce, James.Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Kesey, Ken.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Knowles, John.A Separate Peace. Kuralt, Charles.Charles Kuralt’s America. Lee, Harper.To Kill a Mockingbird. London, Jack.The Sea Wolf. Malamud, Bernard.The Natural. McCaffrey, Anne.Dragonsong. McCullers, Carson.Member of the Wedding. Melville, Herman.Moby Dick. Miller, Arthur.Death of a Salesman. Miller, Arthur.The Crucible. Mitchell, Margaret.Gone With the Wind. Myers, Walter Dean.The Glory Field. O’Brien, Tim.The Things They Carried. Orwell, George.1984. (Nice one very nice!) Paton, Alan.Cry, the Beloved Country. Poe, Edgar Allan.Complete Tales and Poems. Potok, Chaim.My Name is Asher Lev. Potok, Chaim.The Chosen. Remarque, Erich Maria.All Quiet on the Western Front. Salinger, J.D.The Catcher in the Rye. Scott, Sir Walter.Ivanhoe. Shakespeare, William.Macbeth. Shakespeare, William.A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare, William.Hamlet. Shakespeare, William.King Lear. Shelley, Mary.Frankenstein. (This one is good to!) Shepard, Alan and Deke Slayton.Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon. Shute, Nevil.On the Beach. Silko, Leslie Marmon.Ceremony. Sinclair, Upton.The Jungle. Sophocles.Oedipus Rex. Steinbeck, John.The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck, John.The Pearl. Steinbeck, John.The Red Pony. Steinbeck, John.Of Mice and Men Stevenson, Robert Louis.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stoll, Clifford.Silicon Snake Oil. Swift, Jonathan.Gulliver’s Travels. Tan, Amy.The Joy Luck Club. (This one is cool too!) Thoreau, Henry David.Walden. Thurber, James.My Life and Hard Times. Thurber, James.The Thurber Carnival. Twain, Mark.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain, Mark.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Wharton, Edith.Ethan Frome. Wilder, Thornton.Our Town. Williams, Tennessee.The Glass Menagerie. Wright, Richard.Black Boy. Wright, Richard.Native Son.
