- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 1869
- 1984 – George Orwell 1949
- Ulysses – James Joyce 1922
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 1955
- The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner 1929
- Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison 1952
- To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf 1927
- The Illiad and The Odyssey – Homer 8th century B.C.
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 1813
- Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri 1321
- Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer 15th century
- Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 1726
- Middlemarch – George Eliot 1874
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe 1958
- The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger 1951
- Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell 1936
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1967
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 1961
- Beloved – Toni Morrison 1987
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 1939
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 1981
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 1932
- Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf 1925
- Native Son – Richard Wright 1940
- Origin of Species – Charles Darwin 1859
- Confessions – St. Augustine 4th century
- Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes 1651
- The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien 1954
- Winnie-the-Pooh – A. A. Milne 1926
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis 1950
- A Passage to India – E. M. Forster 1924
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac 1957
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 1960
- The Holy Bible. Revised Standard Version. NA
- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess 1962
- Light in August – William Faulkner 1932
- The Souls of Black Folk – W. E. B. Du Bois 1903
- Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys 1966
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 1857
- Paradise Lost – John Milton 1667
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 1877
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare 1603
- King Lear – William Shakespeare 1608
- Othello – William Shakespeare 1622
- Sonnets – William Shakespeare 1609
- Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman 1855
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 1885
- Kim – Rudyard Kipling 1901
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley 1818
- Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison 1977
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey 1962
- For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway 1940
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut 1969
- Animal Farm – George Orwell 1945
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding 1954
- Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust 1913
- As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner 1930
- The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway 1926
- I, Claudius – Robert Graves 1934
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers 1940
- Sons and Lovers – D. H. Lawrence 1913
- All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren 1946
- Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin 1953
- Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White 1952
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 1902
- Night – Elie Wiesel 1958
- Rabbit, Run – John Updike 1960
- The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton 1920
- Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 1969
- Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller 1934
- The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett 1930
- Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather 1927
- The Education of Henry Adams – Henry Adams 1918
- The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature – William James 1902
- Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad 1900
- The Affluent Society – John Kenneth Galbraith 1958
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 1908
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley and Malcolm X 1965
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker 1982
you should read ‘Einstein’s Dreams’ by Alan Lightman. As a fellow poet, I believe your mind will be changed. Also check out the poetry of Li-Young Lee, with a focus on ‘The City in Which I Love You’.
Thanks, Jessica…who I don’t know.
Oooooh boy, I’m gonna warn you now: Tolstoy is *rough*! I’ve been trying to finish ‘Anna Karenina’ for years! You have many of the same books on your to-read list as I do!
P.S. I Love You…
I believe every woman should read that book! You’ll fly through it…
The Things They Carried and all of Mitch Albom’s books. I better stop for now.
I’ve actually read O’Brien’s book! I’ll check the other two out. I need to find time to compile all the books I’ve read into a list! It would take ages!