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