You might be wondering how I came up with this list. It is composed of my research in various instances regarding different listings of classical, controversial (previously banned or burned books), books every woman should read and/or books everyone should read before they die. My resources include the American Library Association, Wikipedia and Easton Press' listings just to name a few. Some books on this list are recent publications, but the vast majority are older than 50-100 years of age. This list is ever-changing because I'm adding to it at all times.
If you think of a "classic" that you really feel should be included on this list, feel free to email me or comment on my blog! I'm always happy to add to this list! There might also be ones you don't agree with as a "classic" per se. I understand that everyone won't agree with my all-encompassing umbrella...and that's OK, that's your prerogative. This is just my list and I've thrown it together for my own reading purposes and decided to share it here on my blog.
Books are listed in alphabetical order via their title within each list.
Read
1984 - George Orwell (Review: 6/10/2013)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (Review: 1/27/2010)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (Review: 1/22/2013)
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Review: 12/9/2010)
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
Blubber - Judy Blume (Review: 10/9/2013)
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (Review: 6/14/2013)
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Review: 12/14/2009)
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Emma - Jane Austen
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton (Review: 1/22/2013)
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Giver - Lois Lowry (Review: 4/22/2013)
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harry Potter (series) - J.K. Rowling (Review: 4/3/2013)
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton (Review: 2/5/2013)
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (Review: 5/1/2013)
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (Review: 2/10/2011)
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair (Review: 2/27/2013)
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (Review: 4/5/2010)
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
The Legend of Sleep Hollow - Washington Irving
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo (Review: 11/6/2012)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Review: 3/7/2013)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Review: 3/29/2010)
The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (Review: 10/9/2013)
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen (Review: 5/6/2010)
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth - Sojourner Truth (Review: 11/13/2012)
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin (Review: 1/25/2013)
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (Review: 12/15/2010)
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy (Review: 12/12/2012)
Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
To Read
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Aesop's Fables - Aesop
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
Always Running - Luis J Rodriguez
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
The Analects of Confucious - Confucious
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Annie on my Mind - Nancy Garden
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Beowolf - Unknown
Bill Budd - Herman Melville
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Black Boy - Richard Wright
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo A. Anaya
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
The Bostonians - Henry James
The Boy Who Lost His Face - Louis Sachar
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Candide - Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Confessions of St. Augustine - St. Augustine of Hippo
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat - Alvin Schwartz
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Curses, Hexes and Spells - Daniel Cohen
Cut - Patricia McCormick
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Newton Peck
Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
Detour for Emmy - Marilyn Reynolds
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Dune - Frank Herbert
Earth's Children (series), Jean M Auel
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
Fade - Robert Cormier
Family Secrets - Norma Klein
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Forever - Judy Blume
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
Germinal - Émile Zola
Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Grimm's Fairy Tales - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Howard's End - E.M. Forster
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
Jazz - Toni Morrison
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Jumper - Steven Gould
The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
A Light in the Attic - Shel Silverstein
Light in August - William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Middlemarch - George Elliot
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
My Antonia - Willa Cather
My Brother Sam Is Dead - James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Naked Lunch - William S Burroughs
The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
Native Son - Richard Wright
O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Thousand and One Nights (or Tales from the Arabian Nights) - Richard Francis Burton
Ordinary People - Judith Guest
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Paradise Lost - John Milton
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Possession - A.S. Byatt
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
The Secret History - Donna Tart
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy - A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Sophie's Choice - William Styron
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Summer of My German Soldier - Bette Greene
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
The Talisman - Sir Walter Scott
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes are Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Ulysses - James Joyce
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
We All Fall Down - Robert Cormier
What My Mother Doesn't Know - Sonya Sones
Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
The Wish Giver - Bill Brittain
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
The World According to Garp - John Irving
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
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