Instructions: Bold the books you have read. Italicise the books you might read. Cross out the books you probably won't read. Underline the books you have on your shelf to read or have started reading. Pass it on.
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (yuck!)
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (highly recommended!)
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell (shameful, I know!)
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut (I like the other Vonnegut I've read, and I have his A Man without a Country on my shelf right now.)
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (tried it awhile ago, and couldn't get into it; I should revisit it)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (a longtime favorite, and a terrific book to teach)
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Bonus recommendations:
My Year of Meats - Ruth Ozeki (highly recommended!)
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren (lovely prose from a poet)
Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - Louise Erdrich (a terrific novel!)
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (one of her best)
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow (especially neat if you know anything about the Progressive era in the US)
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore (a very fun read)
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