We read a lot of books in grade school, then hardly any in college, depending on your major. While I got to read some of the classics in middle and high school, I always felt like there were so many more we just never got to. I decided to make a list, including classic books I want to read, have been told to read, and really just feel like I should read to be cultured in timeless literature. I’ve read 12 of these so far, mostly just from school experiences, but would like to someday get to as many as possible! While I know that I probably won’t enjoy all of them, I also know I definitely won’t be able to complete the list anytime soon, if not ever. But for now, here's a point of reference/a nice list from which to pick your future reads:
1. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
2. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
3. Great Expectations by Alexandre Dumas
4. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
6. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
10. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
11. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
12. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
16. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
18. 1984 by George Orwell
19. Animal Farm by George Orwell
20. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
21. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
22. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
23. The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
24. Atonement by Ian McEwan
25. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
26. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
27. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
28. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
29. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
30. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
31. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
32. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
34. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
35. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kessey
36. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
37. Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
38. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
39. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
40. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
41. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
42. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
43. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
44. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
45. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
46. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
47. Little Women by May Alcott
48. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
49. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
50. 19 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
51. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
52. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
53. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
54. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
55. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
56. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
57. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
58. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
59. The Sound and Fury by William Faulkner
60. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
