Hey Everyone! When I was younger, I used to read a ton. As a direct result of that, my writing and reading were on point. Recently, however, I haven’t been reading as much, and as a result, my writing isn’t as good as I want it to be (albeit, still pretty good). I’ve decided to read all the books on this list over the next 1 and a half years to get back into reading and to improve my writing. Enjoy! :)
1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
6. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
8. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
9. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
12. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
14. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
15. The Ecological Rift by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, Richard York
16. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate by Naomi Klein
17. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
18. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
19. The Odyssey by Homer
20. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
21. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
22. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
23. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
24. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
25. The Stranger by Albert Camus
26. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
27. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
28. Beowulf by Unknown
29. The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra, Luigi Luisi
30. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
31. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
32. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
33. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
34. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
35. Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
37. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
38. Candide by Voltaire
39. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
40. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
41. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
42. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
43. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
44. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
45. The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath
46. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
47. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
48. Antigone by Sophocles
49. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe
50. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
51. The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales #2) by James Fenimore Cooper
52. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
53. Beloved by Toni Morrison
54. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
55. Selected Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
56. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
57. 1984 by George Orwell
58. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
59. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
60. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
61. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
62. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
63. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
64. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
65. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
66. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
67. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
68. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
69. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
70. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
71. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
72. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
73. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
74. The Iliad by Homer
75. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1) by Dante Alighieri
76. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
77. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
78. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
79. Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
80. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
81. Cyrano de Bergac by Edmond Rostand
82. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
83. The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot
84. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
85. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
86. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
87. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
88. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
89. Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
90. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
91. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
92. Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
93. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
94. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
95. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
96. A Death in the Family by James Agee
97. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
98. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
99. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
100. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Carther
101. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
