Books Everyone Should Read!
I’ve wanted to do this for ages, so here goes. These are some of the books/plays/poets that I think (this is just my opinion!) everyone should read before they die. If anyone wants to add to the list, then please do by commenting or reblogging!
Fantasy and/or Children’s Novels:
The Harry Potter Series - J. K. Rowling. Anyone who knows me, knows that I will always love Potter, until the very end.
The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis.
The Percy Jackson Series - Rick Riordan. All of his books are great, not just this series, but the others too.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (The Oz Books) - L. Frank Baum.
The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare.
A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket.
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The Once & Future King - T. H. White.
Dystopian and/or Utopian Novels:
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins.
The Maze Runner Trilogy - James Dashner.
The Divergent Trilogy - Veronica Roth.
The Giver Quartet - Lois Lowry.
Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy.
Gothic and/or Horror Novels:
The Beetle: A Mystery - Richard Marsh.
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.
The Fall of the House of Usher & Other Writings - Edgar Allen Poe.
Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice.
The Darren Shan Series - Darren Shan.
Salem’s Lot - Stephen King.
Dreamcatcher - Stephen King.
The Shining - Stephen King.
Young Adult and/or Influential Novels:
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (I have Go Set A Watchman but I still need to read it!).
Oranges Aren’t The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson.
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger.
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini.
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky.
All The Bright Places - Jennifer Niven.
Attachments - Rainbow Rowell.
Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell.
Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell.
Landline - Rainbow Rowell.
Carry On - Rainbow Rowell.
Looking For Alaska - John Green.
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green.
Paper Towns - John Green.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green & David Levithan.
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - Jesse Andrews.
Crime and/or Thriller Novels:
The Alex Rider Series - Anthony Horowitz.
The Cuckoo’s Calling - Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling).
The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling).
Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling).
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte.
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale - Herman Melville.
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens.
The Beach - Alex Garland.
Plays (read them and if you can see a performance or two, there’s nothing like the theatre):
The Oresteia - Aeschylus.
The Three Theban Plays - Sophocles.
William Shakespeare’s Plays (these are just a few of my favourites!):
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster.
William Blake’s Poetry - Literally one of my favourite poets.
William Wordsworth’s Poetry.
War Poetry - two of my favourites are Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.
Sylvia Plath’s Poetry - C’mon, who hasn’t read her work?
Carol Ann Duffy - I love her.
I think that’s all I have for now. I know I’m missing loads, but this is what I’ve been able to come up with so far. Also, just because she asked this is for the lovely @glide-thru, I read a lot :P
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