Reading List

This is my reading list that I constructed during my last year in Secondary school. I aim to read all these books before I die and I would like you to join in too! Please suggest any other books you think I should be reading!

1.       2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke

2.       The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, Mark Twain

3.       The Adventures of Thomas Sawyer, Mark Twain

4.       Aesop’s Fables, Aesopus

5.       Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

6.       American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis

7.       Animal Farm, George Orwell

8.       Atonement, Ian McEwan

9.       The Beach, Alex Garland

10.    The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

11.    Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

12.    Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding

13.    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres

14.    Carrie, Stephen King

15.    Casino Royale, Ian Fleming

16.    Catch 22, Joseph Heller

17.    The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

18.    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

19.    Choke, Chuck Palahniuk

20.    A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

21.    Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

22.    The Color Purple, Alice Walker

23.    Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

24.    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon

25.    Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham

26.    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick

27.    Dracula, Bram Stoker

28.    Emma, Jane Austin

29.    The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje

30.    Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

31.    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter. S. Thompson

32.    Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

33.    Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

34.    The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

35.    Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

36.    The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

37.    Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift

38.    The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams

39.    The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien

40.    The Hound of The Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

41.    Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

42.    I, Robot, Isaac Asimov

43.    Interview With The Vampire, Anne Rice

44.    Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

45.    Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, Jules Verne

46.    Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling

47.    Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami

48.    A Kestrel for a Knave, Barry Hines

49.    Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence

50.    Life of Pi, Yann Martel

51.    A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett

52.    Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

53.    The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

54.    Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

55.    Lord of the Flies, William Golding

56.    Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J. R. R. Tolkien

57.    The lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

58.    Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

59.    Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

60.    Middlesex, Jeffery Eugenides

61.    Misery, Stephen King

62.    Moby Dick, Herman Melville

63.    The Never Ending Story, Michael Ende

64.    Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

65.    Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter

66.    Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell

67.    The Notebook, Nick Sparks

68.    Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

69.    One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey

70.    Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood

71.    Perfume, Patrick Suskind

72.    Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie

73.    The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde

74.    The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan

75.    The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain

76.    Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

77.    Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

78.    The Reader, Bernard Schlink

79.    A Room With A View, E. M. Forester

80.    Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Keneally

81.    The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

82.    Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

83.    The Shining, Stephen King

84.    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

85.    A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

86.    The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

87.    Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

88.    The Time Machine, Thomas Hardy

89.    The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

90.    Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll

91.    To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

92.    To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

93.    A Town Like Alice, Neville Shute

94.    Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh

95.    Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

96.    Ulysses, James Joyce

97.    Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

98.    Vertigo, W. G. Sebald

99.    War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

100.The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells

101.Whistling for the Elephants, Sandi Toksvig

102.The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga

103.Wise Children, Angela Carter

104.Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

105. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman