Needless to say this project will take me a few years to get through, especially in that I’m a slow reader. I can’t just swallow books in a few hours like some people can. I'm sure I'm forgetting some important reads, but today these are the books I'm interested in giving a shot in future. When I say give a shot I'm saying I may not finish them if they do not hold my attention. Hopefully I'll review several of the below titles. Should keep me busy!
Classic novels:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dune by Frank Herbert
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Plays:
Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard (Oxford World's Classics) by Anton Chekhov
Richard 3rd by William Shakespeare
Poetry:
Keats's Poetry and Prose by John Keats
High Windows by Philip Larkin
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
The Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost's Poems
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Short story collections:
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
Short stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Bloody Chamber and other stories by Angela Carter
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
Someone Like You by Roald Dahl
The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Contemporary novels:
The Goldfinch (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Donna Tartt
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Beach by Alex Garland
Non-fiction:
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? by Harold Bloom
Gilliam on Gilliam by Ian Christie
Cronenberg on Cronenberg by Chris Rodley
Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh by Amy Raphael
My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin
A Biography of Kafka by Ronald Hayman
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Writer's Life by Geir Kjetsaa
Innocent When You Dream: Tom Waits - The Collected Interviews by Mac Montadon
Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave by Ian Johnston
Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake
How to Say No Without Feeling Guilty by Patti Breitman and Connie Hatch
Games People Play by Eric Berne
Essays of Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
Do you also have a to-read list? Have you read any of the above selections?
