“Here (in the extended entry) is a little summer reading list. Bold what you’ve read, italicize those you’ve started and not finished, add three of your own to the end, and post.”
, you might like this, since you were talking about reading some more classic books… perhaps a place to start?
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
- 1984, George Orwell
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Captain Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
- The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
- Tess Of The Durbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
- The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Alices Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Emma, Jane Austen
- Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
- Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
- The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
- The Stand, Stephen King
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
- The BFG, Roald Dahl
- Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
- Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
- Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
- Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
- Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
- A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
- Mort, Terry Pratchett
- The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
- The Magus, John Fowles
- Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
- Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
- Perfume, Patrick Susskind
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
- Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
- Matilda, Roald Dahl
- Bridget Jones’ Diary, Helen Fielding
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt
- The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens
- Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Twits, Roald Dahl
- I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
- Holes, Louis Sachar
- Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
- The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
- Magician, Raymond E Feist
- On The Road, Jack Kerouac
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo
- The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
- The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- Katherine, Anya Seton
- Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
- Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
- Midnights Children, Salman Rushdie
- Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
- Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
- The Beach, Alex Garland
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
- The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
- Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
- The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
- The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
- The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
- Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
- The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
- The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
- Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
- The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
- The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
- Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- Shogun, James Clavell
- The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
- Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
- Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
- House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
- Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
- Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
- The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
- Possession, A. S. Byatt
- The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
- East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
- Georges Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
- Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
- The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
- Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
- Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
- Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
- High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
- It, Stephen King
- James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
- The Green Mile, Stephen King
- Papillon, Henri Charriere
- Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
- Master And Commander, Patrick OBrian
- Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
- Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
- Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
- The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
- Atonement, Ian McEwan
- Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
- One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
- Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- Kim, Rudyard Kipling
- Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
- Moby **** , Herman Melville
- River God, Wilbur Smith
- Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
- The World According To Garp, John Irving
- Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
- Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
- The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
- The Witches, Roald Dahl
- Charlottes Web, E. B. White
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
- The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
- Sophies World, Jostein Gaarder
- Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
- Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
- The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
- The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
- Silas Marner, George Eliot
- American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
- The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
- Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
- Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
- Heidi, Johanna Spyri
- Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
- Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
- The Truth, Terry Pratchett
- The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
- The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
- A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
- Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
- The Once And Future King, T. H. White
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
- Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
- The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
- The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
- The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
- Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
- Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
- Winters Heart, Robert Jordan
- A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
- Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
- A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
- As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
- Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
- The Married Man, Edmund White
- Winters Tale, Mark Helprin
- The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
- Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
- Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell – You know, I kept reading the title and thinking it was about Unicorns, which made for a much more interesting book.
- Equus, Peter Shaffer
- The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
- Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
- The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
- Anthem, Ayn Rand
- The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
- Tartuffe, Moliere
- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
- The Crucible, Arthur Miller
- The Trial, Franz Kafka
- Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
- Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
- Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
- A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen
- Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
- Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
- A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
- ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
- Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
- Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
- The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
- Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
- Summerland, Michael Chabon
- A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
- Candide, Voltaire
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
- Ringworld, Larry Niven
- The King Must Die, Mary Renault
- Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline LEngle
- The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
- The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
- Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
- Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
- The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
- Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
- Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
- Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
- Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
- The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
- A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
- Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
- Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
- Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
- Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. OBrien
- Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
- The Cay, Theodore Taylor
- From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
- The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
- The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
- The Kitchen Gods Wife, Amy Tan
- The Bone Setters Daughter, Amy Tan
- Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
- Wicked, Gregory Maguire
- American Gods, Neil Gaiman
- Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
- The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
- Haunted, Judith St. George
- Singularity, William Sleator
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
- Different Seasons, Stephen King
- Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
- About a Boy, Nick Hornby
- The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
- The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
- Illusions, Richard Bach
- Magics Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
- Magics Promise, Mercedes Lackey
- Magics Price, Mercedes Lackey
- The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
- Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
- Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
- The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
- Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace.
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison. (I tried, in college, for a class, but never made it through, and ended up dropping the class)
- The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
- Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
- Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
- The Lions Game, Nelson Demille
- The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
- Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
- Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
- Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
- Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
- Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
- The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
- War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
- The Art of War, Sun Tzu
- The Giver, Lois Lowry
- The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
- Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
- A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
- Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
- The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
- Beowulf, Anonymous
- The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
- Deerskin, Robin McKinley
- Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
- Passage, Connie Willis
- Otherland, Tad Williams
- Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
- Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christs Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
- The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
- Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
- The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
- Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
- The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
- The Genesis Code, John Case
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
- Phantom, Susan Kay
- The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
- Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
- The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
- Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
- The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
- The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
- My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
- The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
- At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
- Othello, by William Shakespeare
- The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
- The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
- Sati, Christopher Pike
- The Inferno, Dante
- The Apology, Plato
- The Small Rain, Madeline LEngle
- The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
- 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
- The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
- Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- Our Town, Thorton Wilder
- Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
- The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
- The Moors Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
- The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
- A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
- Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
- The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
- Howls Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones – I saw the animated version, I’m guessing that doesn’t count
- Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
- Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
- Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
- The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
- Time for Bed by David Baddiel
- Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
- The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
- Jhereg by Steven Brust
- So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
- Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
- Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
- The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
- The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
- The Gunslinger, Stephen King
- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
- Childhoods End, Arthur C. Clarke
- A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
- Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
- The God Boy, Ian Cross
- The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King
- Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
- Misery, Stephen King
- Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
- Hood, Emma Donoghue
- The Land of Spices, Kate OBrien
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Regeneration, Pat Barker
- Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald. On my bookshelf waiting to be read.
- Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
- Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
- A Severed Wasp – Madeleine LEngle
- Here Be Dragons – Sharon Kay Penman
- The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) – translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest
- The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown. Also on my bookshelf waiting to be read.
- Desire of the Everlasting Hills – Thomas Cahill
- The Cloister Walk – Kathleen Norris
- The Things We Carried, Tim OBrien
- I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
- Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
- Enders Shadow, Orson Scott Card
- The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
- The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
- The Four Feathers, A.E.W. Mason
- The Jester, James Patterson
- Cry the beloved Country, Alan Paton
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- The Stranger, Albert Camus
- Deathscent, Robin Jarvis
- Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice
- My legendary girlfriend, Mike Gayle
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Phillip K Dick
- Bored of the Rings – Harvard Lampoon -I didn’t know this existed, but I might find it funny.
- The Pelican Brief – John Grisham
- Schild’s Ladder – Greg Egan
- Excession – Iain M. Banks
- One For The Morning Glory – John Barnes
- The Manchurian Candidate – Richard Condon
- A Death in the Family – James Agee
- Fup – Jim Dodge
- Girl Soldier by Faith J H McDonnell and Grace Akallo – I’m about a third of the way through and it’s fantastic
- We Could Almost Eat Outside by Philippe Delerm and Sarah Hamp – about halfway through, but you can only read a page or two at a time. Doesn’t really excuse the year-plus that I’ve been reading it.
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – one of the Austen books not on the list already, but I think it’s the best one.
Looks like I have a lot of reading to do, if I actually wanted to accomplish this list. I don’t, however. But good to know if I ever make it through my collection of books, there’s plenty more out there.
