I wasn't always like this. I used to loath reading - I was allergic to books. I'm not sure what happened and how it all changed, but here I sit, in all my book-obsessed glory.
A couple years ago I decided I needed to catch up on all the classic novels that I refused to read in my school days. So I searched the internet to come up with a list or guideline of books everyone should read. I came up with 100 modern classics and I've been slowly ticking off each book as I read them. I tend to mix my book genres up to avoid boredom and repetition - so I'll read a classic, followed by a YA book, a fantasy, a mystery, etc, so it's been taking longer than expected...but someday it will happen.
The list (in no particular order):
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
- 1984, George Orwell
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinback
- A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Trustee from the Toolroom, Nevil Shute
- Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
- The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
- The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
- The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
- Atonement, Ian McEwan
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
