So I figured since item #22 of my 30 is to finish my reading list, I should probably post that list. Now, as quite the obsessive reader, this task will never truly be finished for me; however, I have been creating a list of books, many of them classics, that I want to read. The list I’m going to post might be added to as the weeks, months, years, go by, but I’m going to start with what I have on it for now, and I’ll post an update, short summary, and my thoughts on each book as I check them off.
- To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee (read in school – want to reread as an adult)
- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (read in school – want to read as an adult)
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mich Albom
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- The Cider House Rules by John Irving
- Don Juan by George Gordon Byron
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
- The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
- The Royal Enigma by Krishna Bhatt
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
- A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- The Concubine by Norah Lofts
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- What She Saw by Lucinda Rosenfeld
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
- I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
- How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
- How’s Your Drink? by Eric Felten
- Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- At Home by Bill Bryson
- Ringing Cedars Series by Vladimir Megre
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- After Long Silence by Helen Fremont
- Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
- The Last Cannoli by Camile Cusumano
- Don’t Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk
- The Hunt for the Seventh by Christine Morton-Shaw
- When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- The Hunger Fix by Dr. Pam Peeke
- The New Rules of Lifting for Women by Lou Schuler
- Run Your Butt Off! by Leslie Bonci
- Flat Belly Yoga by Kimberly Fowler
- Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
- Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom by Dr. Christiane Northrup
- The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
- You are Not So Smart/ You are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts by Susan Cain
- Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandella
- The 5 Love Languages by Gary D. Chapman
- The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
- Spontaneous Healing by Dr. Andrew Weil
- Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroline Knapp
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- The Great Work of Your Life by Stephen Cope
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
- The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
- Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar by Kelly Oxford
- Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
It’s a decently long list, but over the next 7 years, only averages out to 1.25 books per month. I welcome any suggestions you lovely people might have to add to this list – anything from Classics to Graphic Novel suggestions are welcome!
30 to Life 