Lots of people, including myself, have included “read more books” on their list of New Year’s Resolutions. So I thought I’d compile some book recommendations to provide you guys with inspiration! In no particular order, here’s a list of 101 books I’ve read and loved.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (my all-time favorite!)
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Wild Awake by Hilary T. Smith (an underrated but oh-so-beautiful book)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (duh)
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
The Odyssey by Homer (I recommend the Robert Fagles translation)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (even better if you can read it in the original French!)
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (love, love, love!)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (a book whose message is especially relevant in light of the recent election)
Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be by Frank Bruni (a must-read for anyone stressed out about college admissions and the Ivy League hype)
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O'Reilly
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Princess Saves Herself in this One by Amanda Lovelace
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (this is the memoir that baby memoirs want to be when they grow up)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
How to Become a Straight‑A Student by Cal Newport
The Color of Water by James McBride
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Road to Character by David Brooks
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (all of Gladwell’s books are great tbh)
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay
Our Numbered Days by Neil Hilborn
P.S. If you’re trying to read more in 2017, check out my posts about goal-setting and habits!
Thanks for reading! If you have questions, feedback, or post requests, feel free to drop me an ask.
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