Hey guys! This post has been coming for a really long time, I’m sorry to have kept you all waiting but university readings have kept me very very busy! I have compiled a list of books which are classics (in their own way, some even being modern classics). Books that I’ve read and loved or other people in my life have loved have been italicised and this list includes links to my favourite covers/the edition of the book that I own since you all ask me where I buy my books from on my bookstagram (and that is from book depository!). I hope you enjoy this, stay bookish 📚
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
A Tale of Two Cities; Bleak House; Great Expectations; Major Works by Charles Dickens
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
The Four Tragedies and The Four Histories; The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (*cough* my name is mentioned here *cough*)
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Far from the Madding Crowd; Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch by George Eliot
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Stranger; The Fall; The Myth of Sisyphus; The Plague by Albert Camus
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
To the Lighthouse; Mrs. Dalloway; A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
The Trial; Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Harry Potter by JK Rowling
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Confessions by St Augustine of Hippo
The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
A Passage to India; A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Plays by Christopher Marlowe
Norwegian Wood; Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Secret History; The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
my study/book instagram @ aristotelian
my goodreads @ mitochondrions [also snapchat if u wanna]
I hope you guys enjoyed it! Feel free to message me if you want me to add one of your favourite books or something, happy reading 😙❤️
