Books I’ve read so far. Some of them are Literature (capital L), others are young adult’s Literature. Still others are just fluff, the kind that you hide in the suitcase or throw a Hemingway dust jacket on in order to read in public without embarrassment.
PLEASE offer your suggestions. Fill in the blanks.
You haven’t read anything until you’ve read __________. No list is complete without __________. People claim to be well-read, and then you realize they haven’t even read __________.
- Alcott, Louisa May – Eight Cousins
- Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
- Alcott, Louisa May – Rose In Bloom
- Austen, Jane – Emma
- Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park
- Austen, Jane – Northanger Abbey
- Austen, Jane – Persuasion
- Austen, Jane – Pride & Prejudice
- Austen, Jane – Sense & Sensibility
- Beah, Ishmael – A Long Way Gone
- Beecher Stowe, Harriet – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
- Buck, Pearl S. – The Good Earth
- Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
- Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
- DuMaurier, Daphne – Jamaica Inn
- DuMaurier, Daphne – Rebecca
- Gabaldon, Diana – Outlander
- Golden, Arthur – Memoirs of a Geisha
- Gregory, Philippa – The Other Boleyn Girl
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
- Herriot, James – All Creatures Great and Small (series)
- Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Marshall, Catherine – Christy
- Marshall, Catherine – Julie
- Michener, James – Space
- Michener, James – Alaska
- Mitchell, Margaret – Gone with the Wind
- Montgomery, L.M. – Anne of Green Gables (series)
- Montgomery, L.M. – Emily of New Moon (series)
- Morrison, Toni – Beloved
- Rowling, JK – Harry Potter (series)
- Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
- Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
- Stockett, Kathryn – The Help
- Tolkien, JRR – Lord of the Rings (series, with The Hobbit)
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Uris, Leon – Exodus
- Walker, Alice – The Color Purple
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls – Little House on the Prairie (whole series)