Lifetime Reading List Mr. Malmed Eagle Rock High School This is a selection of books that I’ve read through middle school, high school, graduate school, and beyond both for work and for pleasure. I’ve included any title that I believe is worth your time because each one has importance and something significant to say. With all the distractions and excessive content available in our world, there is a universal benefit in cutting through the noise and sustaining your focus on works by accomplished authors. Reading books like these is just good for your mind and soul. The list is by no means exhaustive as there are hundreds of titles I could include but have either yet to read them or have simply forgotten to include them. It’s still a work in progress; I’m still working on the list my high school English teacher left for me. But what I have completed I leave for you. Enjoy! Acehebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Sense and Sensibility Baldwin, James: Go Tell it on the Mountain, Sonny’s Blues (short story) Balzac, Honoré de: Pére Goriot Barnes, Djuna: Nightwood Barnes, Julian: Talking It Over, Love, Etc., The Sense of an Ending Bellow, Saul: The Adventures of Augie March, Humboldt’s Gift Borges, Jorge Luis: Borges and I (short story), Labyrinths (collection of short stories and essays) Bowles, Paul: The Sheltering Sky Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights Byatt, A.S.: Possession Calvino, Italo: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Camus, Albert: The Stranger Capote, Truman: Breakfast at Tiffany’s Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass Carter, Angela: Wise Children Carver, Raymond: short stories Cather, Willa: My Antonia Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote Chabon, Michael: Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Cheever, John: short stories Chopin, Kate: The Awakening Cisneros, Sandra: House on Mango Street Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness Cooper, James Fennimore: Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders DeLillo, Don: White Noise Diaz, Junot: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities Doctorow, E.L.,: Ragtime Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie Egan, Jennifer: A Visit From the Goon Squad Eggers, Dave: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Circle Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man Eliot, George: Middlemarch Faulkner, William: Go Down Moses, Light in August, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, The Wild Palms, Absalom, Absalom! Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary Foer, Jonathan Safran: Everything is Illuminated Ford, Richard: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, short stories Forster, E.M.: A Passage to India Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections Garland, Alex: The Beach Golding, William: Lord of the Flies Greene Graham: The Quiet American, The End of the Affair Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlett Letter, Young Goodman Brown Heller, Joseph: Catch-­22 Hemingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom The Bell Tolls, short stories Hornby, Nick: About a Boy, High Fidelity Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God Huxley, Alduous: Brave New World James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady Joyce, James: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake Kafka, Franz: The Trial, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible Kingston, Maxine Hong: The Woman Warrior Knowles, John: A Separate Peace Koestler, Arthur: Darkness at Noon Kundera, Milan: Immortality, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Lagerkvist, Pär: The Dwarf Lawrence, D.H.: The Fox, Sons and Lovers Lebowitz, Fran: Metropolitan Life Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird Lewis, C.S.: The Chronicles of Narnia Mailer, Norman: The Naked and the Dead Malamud, Bernard: The Natural, short stories Mann, Thomas: Death in Venice Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Martin, George R. R.: A Song of Ice and Fire (the series that includes The Game of Thrones as its first book) Maugham, W Somerset: Of Human Bondage Maupassant, Guy de: short stories McCarthy, Cormac: The Road McCourt, Frank: Angela’s Ashes, Teacher Man Melville, Herman: Moby Dick, Billy Budd, Bartleby the Scrivener Miller, Henry: Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn Morrison, Toni: Song of Solomon, Sula, The Bluest Eye, Beloved Munro, Alice: short stories Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita Oates, Joyce Carol: short stories O’Brien, Tim: The Things They Carried O’Connor, Flannery: short stories Orwell, George: Animal Farm, 1984, essays Parks, Gordon: The Learning Tree Paton, Alan: Cry the Beloved Country Pirsig, Robert: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Poe, Edgar Allan: short stories Potok, Chaim: The Chosen Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past Puig, Manuel: Kiss of the Spider Woman Pynchon, Thomas: The Crying of Lot 49 Renault, Mary: The King Must Die Robbins, Tom: Jitterbug Perfume Rodrigez, Luis: Always Running Roth, Philip: Portnoy’s Complaint, Zuckerman Bound, When She Was Good, Goodbye Columbus Rushdie, Salman: Midnight’s Children, Shame Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye, short stories Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle Smith, Betty: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Stegner, Wallace: Angle of Repose Steinbeck, John: East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Lord of the Rings (trilogy), The Hobbit Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Updike, John: The Centaur, Rabbit, Run, Rabbit is Rich Voltaire: Candide Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five Wallace, David Foster: essays Warren, Robert Penn: All the King’s Men Welty, Eudora: short stories Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence Wiesel, Elie: Night Wolfe, Thomas: Look Homeward Angel Woolf, Viginia: To the Lighthouse Wright, Richard: Native Son