I found the following list here and asked my Department Heads which out of the books that I haven't read should I read. If you have any suggestions for me based on the list below or your own preference leave a comment -- The one I currently have in my possession is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
A
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The
• All Quiet on the Western Front
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• Armies of the Night, The
B
• Beautiful Losers
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• Big Sleep, The
• Bleak House
• Bonfire of the Vanities, The
• Bourgeois Gentleman, The
• Brave New World
• Buddenbrooks
C
• Cabbagetown
• Christmas Carol, A *
• Confederacy of Dunces, A
D
• Dark Design, The
• Darkness at Noon
• David Copperfield
• Death in Venice
• Demolished Man, The
• Diviners, The
• Don Quixote
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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• Dubliners
E
• East of Eden
• Ellen Foster
• Eloquent Peasant, The
• Enchanted Island, The
• Ender's Game/Speaker for the Dead *
• Epic of Gilgamesh, The
• Erewhon
• Eyeless in Gaza
F
• Fabulous Riverboat, The
• Far from the Madding Crowd
• Farewell to Arms, A
• Felicia's Journey
• Finnegans Wake
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Foundation
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G
• Galton Case, The
• Garden Party and Other Stories, The
• Good Earth, The
• Gilgamesh
• Grapes of Wrath, The
• Great Expectations
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H
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• Handmaid's Tale, The
• Hard Times
• Harlot's Ghost
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• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The *
• Hollow Men, The
• Hound of the Baskervilles, The
• Hugh Garner's Best Stories
I
• I, Claudius
• I, Robot
• Iliad, The
• In Our Time
• Innocence of Father Brown, The
J
• Jane Eyre
• Jude the Obscure
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K
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• Kidnapped
L
• Last Days of Pompeii, The
• Left Hand of Darkness, The
• Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The
• Let Us Compare Mythologies
• Little Foxes, The
• Little Prince, The *
• Long Goodbye, The
• Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The
M
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• Madame Bovary
• Maltese Falcon, The
• Man in Full, A
• Man in the High Castle, The
• Man Who Was Thursday, The
• Mayor of Casterbridge, The
• Merchant of Venice, The
• Metamorphoses
• Mill on the Floss, The
• Misanthrope, The
• Morley Callaghan's Stories
• Mrs Dalloway
• Murder in the Cathedral
• Murders in the Rue Morgue, The
• My Ántonia
N
• Naked and the Dead, The
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Nightfall
O
• Odyssey, The
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• Old Man and the Sea, The *
• Old Tales Retold
• On the Beach
• On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
• On the Road
• Open Boat, The
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P
• Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
• Point Counter Point
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A
• Power Politics
Q
• Quincunx, The
R
• Rape of the Lock, The
• Red Badge of Courage, The *
• Rip Van Winkle *
• Riverworld *
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S
• She Stoops to Conquer
• Shipwrecked Sailor, The
• Snows of Kilimanjaro, The
• Sonnets (Shakespeare's)
• Speaker for the Dead
• Stars My Destination The
• Stone Angel, The
• Story of Sinuhe, The
• Strange Fugitive
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• Such Is My Beloved
• Sun Also Rises, The
• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
T
• Tale of Genji, The
• Tale of Sinuhe, The
• Tales of the Jazz Age
• Tartuffe
• Tempest, The
• Tender is the Night
• Theogony
• Thin Man, The
• Thirty-Nine Steps, The
• Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The
• To the Lighthouse
• To Your Scattered Bodies Go
• Town Like Alice, A
• Treasure Island *
• Tristram Shandy
• True Story of Ah Q, The
U
• Ulysses
• Under Fire
V
• Vicar of Wakefield, The
W
• Waste Land, The
• Way of All Flesh, The
• Wizard of Earthsea, A
• Works and Days
• Would-Be Gentleman, The
• Wuthering Heights
Z
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
* = The books my Department Head thinks I should read.
Yes, she is right, Treasure Island is awesome! I am in love with Sherlock Holmes, too, so my vote goes to The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
ReplyDeleteI also can't not mention Wuthering Heights. It is INSANE, but fun. Seriously, every one of those characters needs a wardrobe of straightjackets. It's like watching a train wreck. I don't know why people use it as an example of epic love (because, um, very unhealthy example!), but it is a pretty killer story about revenge (Crazytown style).
I'm gonna grab them all and give them a try. I'll let you know how I liked them.
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