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Novels to Read-- books that I have read and enjoyed, books that I plan to read, or books that are just considered classics

 

Go and Come Back—Abelove                                                        Sons and Lovers—Lawrence

Things Fall Apart—Achebe                                                             Lady Chatterly’s Lover—Lawrence

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy—Adams                                        To Kill a Mockingbird—Lee

Watership Down—Adams                                                                A Wrinkle in Time—L’Engle

A Death in the Family--Agee                                                          The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe—Lewis

Tuesdays with Morrie—Albom                                                        Screwtape Letters--Lewis

Little Women—Alcott                                                                     The Call of the Wild—London

Bastard Out of California—Allison                                                  White Fang—London

Lucky Jim—Amis                                                                            Whitechurch—Lynch

Speak—Anderson                                                                           The Giver—Lowry

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings—Angelou                                 The Prince—Machiaveli

Emma—Austen                                                                              Doctor Faustus—Marlowe

Pride and Prejudice—Austen                                                         One Hundred Years of Solitude—Marquez

Waiting for Godot—Beckett                                                            The Razor’s Edge—Maugham

Rules of the Road—Bauer                                                             Angela’s Ashes—McCourt

Fahrenheit 451--Bradbury                                                              The Member of the Wedding—McCullers

The Illustrated Man—Bradbury                                                      Swallowing Stones—McDonald

Wuthering Heights—Bronte, E                                                       Ways of Seeing—Mead

Jane Eyre—Bronte, C.                                                                   Billy Budd—Melville

Angels and Demons--Brown                                                           Moby Dick—Melville

The Thirty-nine Steps—Buchan                                                     The Crucible—Miller

Pilgrim’s Progress—Bunyan                                                            Death of a Salesman—Miller

Clockwork Orange—Burgess                                                           Paradise Lost—Milton

Cold Sassy Tree—Burns                                                                 The Misanthrope—Moliere

Stranger—Camus                                                                           House Made of Dawn—Momaday

Silent Spring—Carsons                                                                   Beloved—Morrison

My Antonia—Cather                                                                       Sula—Morrison

The Cherry Orchard—Chekhov                                                        A Good Man is Hard to Find—O’Connor

The Awakening—Chopin                                                                1984—Orwell

Murder on the Orient Express—Christie                                           Animal Farm—Orwell

Ten Little Indians—Christie                                                             Doctor Zhivago—Pasternak

House on Mango Street—Cisneros                                                  Cry, the Beloved Country—Paton

2001: A Space Odyssey—Clarke                                                     Soldier’s Heart—Paulsen

Tell No One--Coben                                                                       Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance—Pirsig

Roughnecks—Cochran                                                                   The Bell Jar—Plath

Analects—Confucius                                                                      Fountainhead—Rand

Heart of Darkness—Conrad                                                            Where the Red Fern Grows—Rawls

Lord Jim—Conrad                                                                         Clarissa—Richardson

The Last of the Mohicans—Cooper                                               Light in the Forest—Richter

Deerslayer—Cooper                                                                     Cyrano de Bergerac—Rostand

The Red Badge of Courage--Crane                                              The Lovely Bones--Sebold

Ironman—Crutcher                                                                        The Taming of the Shrew-Shakespeare

The Art of Happiness—Dalai Lama                                              Twelfth Night—Shakespeare

Two Years Before the Mast—Dana                                               Ceremony—Silko

The Divine Comedy: Inferno—Dante                                            Tree Grows n Brooklyn—Smith

Don Quixote—de Cervantes                                                          Gulag Archipelago—Solzhenitsyn

Robinson Crusoe—Defoe                                                              Antigone—Sophocles

Moll Flanders—Defoe                                                                   Oedipus Rex—Sophocles 

A Tale of Two Cities—Dickens                                                     Stargirl—Spinelli 

David Copperfield—Dickens                                                         The Pearl-Steinbeck 

Sybil—Disraeli                                                                             East of Eden—Steinbeck 

Crime and Punishment— Dostoevsky                                           Grapes of Wrath—Steinbeck

Hound of the Baskervilles—Doyle                                                Treasure Island—Stevenson

Sister Carrie—Dreiser                                                                   Joy Luck Club—Tan 

Rebecca—du Maurier                                                                 Vanity Fair—Thackery 

Ransom—Duncan                                                                       Doing Time—Thomas

Count of Monte Cristo—Dumas                                                   Walden—Thoreau 

The Three Musketeers—Dumas                                                  The Lord of the Rings—Tolkein             

Adam Bede—Eliot                                                                     Anna Karenina—Tolstoy 

Middlemarch—Eliot                                                                   War and Peace—Tolstoy 

Silas Marner—Eliot                                                                    Fathers and Sons—Turgenev 

The Invisible Man—Ellison                                                       Huckleberry Finn—Twain 

The Little Prince—Exupery                                                       Rabbit, Run—Updike                

Ask the Dust—Fante                                                                  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea—Verne 

Sound and the Fury—Faulkner                                                  Dicey’s Song—Voight  

As I Lay Dying—Faulkner                                                         Candide—Voltaire 

Light in August—Faulkner                                                        Slaughter-House Five—Vonnegut 

Tom Jones—Fielding                                                               The Color Purple—Walker

Madame Bovary—Flaubert                                                      Playing without the Ball—Wallace 

Passage to India—Forster                                                         Scoop—Waugh 

Diary of a Young Girl--Anne Frank                                           Brideshead Revisited—Waugh 

Faust—Goethe                                                                         Invisible Man—Wells 

The Tin Drum—Grass                                                              The Time Machine—Wells 

The Quiet American—Greene                                                 War of the Worlds—Wells

Black Like Me—Griffin                                                              The Killer’s Cousin—Werlin 

The Diary of a Nobody—Grossmith                                           Locked Inside—Werlin 

Death Be Not Proud—Gunther                                                 Race Matters—West 

A Raisin in the Sun--Hansberry                                               The Kingdom by the Sea--Westall

Far from the Madding Crowd—Hardy                                      Ethan Frome—Wharton 

The Return of the Native—Hardy                                            Leaves of Grass—Whiman

Jude the Obscure—Hardy                                                      Night—Wiesel 

Scarlet Letter—Hawthorne                                                     The Picture of Dorian Gray—Wilde 

House of Seven Gables--Hawthorne                                       The Glass Menagerie—Williams 

Catch 22—Heller                                                                   Hard Love—Wittlinger 

The Sun Also Rises—Hemingway                                         I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This—Woodson

A Farewell to Arms—Hemingway                                          Mrs. Dalloway—Woolf 

For Whom the Bell Tolls—Hemingway                                 Marjorie Morningstar—Wouk 

Tess of the D’Urbervilles—Hardy                                           Black Boy—Wright 

Out of the Dust—Hesse                                                          Native Son—Wright 

Siddhartha—Hesse

The Kite Runner—Hosseini J

Their Eyes Were Watching God—Hurston

Brave New World—Huxley

A Doll’s House—Ibsen

The Remains of the Day—Ishiguri

Turn of the Screw—James

The Portrait of a Lady—James

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man—Joyce

Ulysses—Joyce Metamorphosis—Kafka

Mitford novels—Karon

Flowers for Algernon—Keyes

On the Road—Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—Kesey

The Secret Life of Bees—Kidd

The Mermaid Chair—Kidd

Blood and Chocolate—Klause

Captains Courageous—Kipling

The Woman Warrior—Klingston

A Separate Peace—Knowles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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