Recommended Books
Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart
Ackerman, Diane
The Natural History of the Senses
Alcott, Louisa May
Little Women
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Speak
Atkinson, Kate
Anything and Everything
Aristophanes
Lysistrata
Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid’s Tale
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Emma
Baldwin, James
The Fire Next Time
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Barnes, Julian
The History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
Baum, Frank
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Beckett, Samuel
Waiting for Godot
Blake, William
poetry
Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451°
Brontë, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily
Wuthering Heights
Brooks, Geraldine
People of the Book
Browning, Robert
poetry
Burns, Olive Ann
Cold Sassy Tree
Burns, Robert
poetry
Campbell, Joseph
The Power of Myth
Camus, Albert
The Stranger
Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood
Cather, Willa
O, Pioneers!
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chabon, Michael
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Chang, Jung
Wild Swans
Chaucer, Jeffrey
The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton
Short stories
Chopin, Kate
The Awakening
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
poetry
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Last of the Mohicans
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness
Cummings, E.E.
poetry
Dante
Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel
Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
Dickinson, Emily
poetry
Dillard, Annie
An American Childhood
The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Donne, John
poetry
Dumas, Alexandre
The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George
Silas Marner
Middlemarch
Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Man
Enger, Leif
Peace Like a River
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Selected Essays
Esquivel, Laura
Like Water for Chocolate
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex
Euripedes
Medea
Evanovich, Janet
Anything and Everything
Faulkner, William
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
Short Stories
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Great Gatsby
Short stories
Flaubert, Gustave
Madame Bovary
Forster, E.M.
A Passage to India
Frazier, Charles
Cold Mountain
Frost, Robert
poetry
George Gordon, Lord Byron
poetry
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Faust
Golding, William
Lord of the Flies
Graham-Smith, Seth
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Grisham, John
A Time to Kill
Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
Haley, Alex
Roots
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Malcolm X)
Hamilton, Edith
Mythology
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
The Return of the Native
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables
Short stories
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms
The Sun Also Rises
Herrrick, Robert
poetry
Hinton, S.E.
Anything and Everything
Homer
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik
A Doll’s House
James, Henry
The Portrait of a Lady
Jonson, Ben
poetry
Joyce, James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Kafka, Franz
The Metamorphosis
Keats, John
poetry
Kerouac, Jack
On the Road
Kesey, Ken
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
King, Stephen
The Stand
Kingsolver, Barbara
The Poisonwood Bible
Kingston, Maxine Hong
The Woman Warrior
Knowles, John
A Separate Peace
Kosiński, Jerzy
Being There
Kundera, Milan
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Interpreter of Maladies
Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, C.S.
Anything and Everything
Lewis, Sinclair
Babbit
London, Jack
The Call of the Wild
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
poetry
Marquez, Gabriel García
Love in the Time of Cholera
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marti, José
poetry
Masters, Edgar Lee
The Spoon River Anthology
Matthew, Gregory
The Monk
McCourt, Frank
Angela’s Ashes
McCullers, Carson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McMurtry, Larry
Lonesome Dove (the miniseries is amazing too)
Melville, Herman
Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur
The Crucible
Death of a Salesman
Milton, John
Paradise Lost
Mitchell, Margaret
Gone With the Wind
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
Song of Solomon
Mueller, Lisel
All of her poetry
Munro, Alice
short stories
Nabokov, Vladimir
Lolita
Neruda, Pablo
Poetry
Norris, Frank
McTeague
O’Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried
O’Connor, Flannery
The Complete Works
O’Neill, Eugene
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Orwell, George
Animal Farm
1984
Parker, Dorothy
Anything and Everything
Pasternak, Boris
Doctor Zhivago
Paterson, Katherine
Jacob Have I Loved
Patchett, Ann
Bel Canto
Pirandello, Luigi
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan
Anything and Everything
Proulx, Annie
Anything and Everything
Pullman, Philip
Dark Materials books
Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front
Rich, Adrienne
poetry
Robinson, Marilynne
Gilead
Rossetti, Christina
poetry
Rinaldi, Ann
Anything and Everything
Rostand, Edmond
Cyrano de Bergerac
Rushdie, Salman
Midnight’s Children
Salinger, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye
Sedaris, David
Anything and Everything
Shakespeare, William
Anything and Everything
The Taming of the Shrew
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shaw, George Bernard
Pygmalion
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
poetry
Sinclair, Upton
The Jungle
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
Antigone
Spiegelman, Art
Maus
Steinbeck, John
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
Travels with Charley
Sterne, Laurence
Tristram Shandy
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Treasure Island
Styron, William
Sophie’s Choice
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver’s Travels
A Modest Proposal (essay)
Tan, Amy
The Joy Luck Club
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
poetry
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David
Walden
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Anything and Everything
Tolstoy, Leo
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Veblen, Thorstein
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Voltaire
Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice
The Color Purple
Warren, Robert Penn
All the King’s Men
Wharton, Edith
The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora
Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt
Leaves of Grass
Wiesel, Elie
Night
Wilde, Oscar
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilder, Thornton
Our Town
Williams, Tennessee
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Glass Menagerie
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Woolf, Virginia
To the Lighthouse
Wordsworth, William
poetry
Wright, Richard
Native Son
Yeats, William Butler
poetry
Chang, Jung
Wild Swans
Esquire Magazine
The Onion website
Letters of Note website
Arts and Letters Daily Website
Happy Reading!!!