Samantha asked:
I would like a list of books that you have read and enjoyed, and were considered “classics” or “timeless.” Any suggestions will be appreciated. And please no science fiction.
Thanks in advance! =]
Annie
I would like a list of books that you have read and enjoyed, and were considered “classics” or “timeless.” Any suggestions will be appreciated. And please no science fiction.
Thanks in advance! =]
Annie
Tags: List Of Books, Science Fiction Thanks, Thanks In Advance
You want a list… you got one hellofva list.
Here’s a list I’ve composed over the years… Oh, and it’s really long…. So uhm, my apologies.
1984 — George Orwell
Absalom, Absalom! — William Faulkner
Adam Bede — George Eliot
Aeneid, The — Vergil
Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton
All the King’s Men — Robert Penn Warren
All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Remarque
American, The — Henry James
American Tragedy, An — Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm — George Orwell
Antigone — Sophocles
Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
Arms and the Man — George Bernard Shaw
Arrowsmith — Sinclair Lewis
As I Lay Dying — William Faulkner
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The — Benjamin Franklin
Awakening, The — Kate Chopin
Babbitt — Sinclair Lewis
Barchester Towers — Anthony Trollope
Black Boy — Richard Wright
Billy Budd — Herman Melville
Bleak House — Charles Dickens
Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh
Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevski
Buddenbrooks — Thomas Mann
Caine Mutiny, The — Herman Wouk
Candide — Voltaire
Canterbury Tales, The — Geoffrey Chaucer
Castle, The — Franz Kafka
Catcher in the Rye, The — J.D. Salinger
Cherry Orchard, The — Anton Chekhov
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevski
Crucible, The — Arthur Miller
Cruel Sea, The — Nicholas Monsarrat
Cyrano de Bergerac — Edmond Rostand
Daisy Miller — Henry James
Darkness at Noon — Arthur Koestler
David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather
Death in the Family, A — James Agee
Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller
Demian — Hermann Hesse
Divine Comedy, The — Dante
Doctor Zhivago — Boris Pasternak
Doll’s House, A — Henrik Ibsen
Don Quixote — Miguel Cervantes
Dr. Faustus — Christopher Marlowe
Dubliners — James Joyce
East of Eden — John Steinbeck
Emma — Jane Austen
Emperor Jones, The — Eugene O’Neill
Enemy of the People, An — Henrik Ibsen
Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far From the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy
Farewell to Arms, A — Ernest Hemingway
Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev
For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway
Forsyte Saga, The — John Galsworthy
Ghosts — Henrik Ibsen
Giants in the Earth — O.E. Rolvaag
Glass Menagerie, The — Tennessee Williams
Go Tell It on the Mountain — James Baldwin
Good Earth, The — Pearl Buck
Grapes of Wrath, The — John Steinbeck
Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
Great Gatsby, The — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift
Handful of Dust, A — Evelyn Waugh
Hard Times — Charles Dickens
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The — Carson McCullers
Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
Heart of the Matter, The — Graham Greene
Hedda Gabler — Henrik Ibsen
House of the Seven Gables, The — Nathaniel Hawthorne
How Green Was My Valley — Richard Llewellyn
Human Comedy, The — William Saroyan
I, Claudius — Robert Graves
Iliad, The — Homer
Importance of Being Earnest, The — Oscar Wilde
Inherit the Wind — Jerome and Robert E. Lee Lawrence
Intruder in the Dust — William Faulkner
Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Bronte
J.B. — Archibald MacLeish
Joseph Andrews — Henry Fielding
Jude the Obscure — Thomas Hardy
Jungle, The — Upton Sinclair
Les Miserables — Victor Hugo
Light in August — William Faulkner
Long Day’s Journey into Night, A — Eugene O’Neill
Look Homeward, Angel — Thomas Wolfe
Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies — William Golding
Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
Magic Mountain, The — Thomas Mann
Main Street — Sinclair Lewis
Major Barbara — George Bernard Shaw
Man for All Seasons, A — Robert Bolt
Master Builder, The — Henrik Ibsen
Mayor of Casterbridge, The — Thomas Hardy
Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
Middlemarch — George Eliot
Mill on the Floss — George Eliot
Moby-Dick — Herman Melville
Moll Flanders — Daniel Defoe
Moonstone, The — Wilkie Collins
Mourning Becomes Electra — Eugene O’Neill
Mrs. Dalloway — Virginia Woolf
Murder in the Cathedral — T.S. Eliot
My Antonia — Willa Cather
Mythology — Edith Hamilton
Native Son — Richard Wright
New Testament — The Bible
Nine Tailors, The — Dorothy Sayers
Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen
Oedipus Rex — Sophocles
Odyssey, The — Homer
Of Human ******* — Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
Old Testament — The Bible
Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens
On the Beach — Nevil Shute
On the Road — Jack Kerouac
Once and Future King, The — T.H. White
Our Town — Thornton Wilder
Out of Africa — Isak Dinesen
Passage to India, A — E.M. Forster
Pere Goriot — Honore de Balzac
Picture of Dorian Gray, The — Oscar Wilde
Plague, The — Albert Camus
Plays and sonnets — William Shakespeare
Poems — Robert Browning
Poems — Emily Dickinson
Poems — Langston Hughes
Poems — John Keats
Portrait of a Lady — Henry James
Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man — James Joyce
Power and the Glory, The — Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
Prince, The — Machiavelli
Pudd’nhead Wilson — Mark Twain
Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw
Rabbit Run — John Updike
Red Badge of Courage, The — Stephen Crane
Return of the Native, The — Thomas Hardy
Room with a View, A — E.M. Forster
Saint Joan — George Bernard Shaw
Scarlet Letter, The — Nathaniel Hawthorne
School for Scandal, The — Richard B. Sheridan
Secret Sharer, The — Joseph Conrad
Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen
She Stoops to Conquer — Oliver Goldsmith
Short Stories — Edgar Allan Poe
Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
Silas Marner — George Eliot
Single Pebble, A — John Hersey
Sister Carrie — Theodore Dreiser
Sons and Lovers — D.H. Lawrence
Sound and the Fury, The — William Faulkner
Steppenwolf — Hermann Hesse
Stories — O. Henry
Stranger, The — Albert Camus
Streetcar Named Desire, A — Tennessee Williams
Sun Also Rises, The — Ernest Hemingway
Sword in the Stone, The — T.H. White
Tale of Two Cities, A — Charles Dickens
Tender Is the Night — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D’Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy
To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf
Tom Jones — Henry Fielding
Trial, The — Franz Kafka
Turn of the Screw, The — Henry James
Typee — Herman Melville
Uncle Tom’s Cabin — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vanity Fair — William M. Thackeray
Victory — Joseph Conrad
Waiting for Godot — Samuel Beckett
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
Way of All Flesh, The — Samuel Butler
Wild Duck, The — Henrik Ibsen
Winesburg, Ohio — Sherwood Anderson
Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte
20,000 Leagues under the Sea — Jules Verne
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The — Mark Twain
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The — Mark Twain
African Queen, The — C.S. Forester
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
Amos Fortune, Free Man — Elizabeth Yates
Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne
Bell for Adano, A — John Hersey
Ben-Hur — Lewis Wallace
Big Sky, The — A.B. Guthrie
Black Arrow, The — Robert Louis Stevenson
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The — Thornton Wilder
Bridge over the River Kwai, The — Pierre Boulle
Bridges at Toko-Ri, The — James Michener
Christmas Carol, A — Charles Dickens
Cimarron — Edna Ferber
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A — Mark Twain
Count of Monte Christo, The — Alexander Dumas
Cry, the Beloved Country — Alan Paton
Dandelion Wine — Ray Bradbury
Death Be Not Proud — John Gunther
Deerslayer, The — James Fenimore Cooper
Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank
Dracula — Bram Stoker
Drums along the Mohawk — Walter D. Edmonds
Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
Goodbye, Mr. Chips — James Hilton
Gone with the Wind — Margaret Mitchell
Green Mansions — W.H. Hudson
High Wind in Jamaica, A — Richard Hughes
Hiroshima — John Hersey
Hobbit, The — J.R.R. Tolkien
Hornblower series, The — C.S. Forester
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The — Victor Hugo
Illustrated Man, The — Ray Bradbury
Innocents Abroad — Mark Twain
Island of the Blue Dolphins — Scott O’Dell
Ivanhoe — Sir Walter Scott
Johnny Tremain — Esther Forbes
Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne
Kim — Rudyard Kipling
King Must Die, The — Mary Renault
King Solomon’s Mines — H. Rider Haggard
Kon-Tiki — Thor Heyerdahl
Last of the Mohicans, The — James Fenimore Cooper
Le Morte d’Arthur — Sir Thomas Malory
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The — Washington Irving
Life on the Mississippi — Mark Twain
Life with Father — Clarence Day
Little Men — Louisa May Alcott
Little Prince, The — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Lord of the Rings, The — J.R.R. Tolkien
Lorna Doone — Richard D. Blackmore
Lost Horizon — James Hilton
Madame Curie: A Biography — Eve Curie
Martian Chronicles — Ray Bradbury
Member of the Wedding — Carson McCullers
Men of Iron — Howard Pyle
Mutiny on the Bounty — Charles and J.N. Hall Nordhoff
Mysterious Island — Jules Verne
National Velvet — Enid Bagnold
Night to Remember, A — Walter Lord
Northwest Passage — Kenneth Roberts
Old Man and the Sea, The — Ernest Hemingway
Ox-Bow Incident, The — Walter Clark
Pearl, The — John Steinbeck
Pilgrim’s Progress, The — John Bunyan
Poems — Robert Frost
Prince and the Pauper, The — Mark Twain
Profiles in Courage — John F. Kennedy
Raisin in the Sun — Lorraine Hansberry
Rebecca — Daphne Du Maurier
Ring of Bright Water — Gavin Maxwell
Robe, The — Lloyd C. Douglas
Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe
Scarlet Pimpernel, The — Baroness Emma Orczy
Sea Wolf, The — Jack London
Separate Peace, A — John Knowles
Shane — Jack Schaefer
Snow Goose, The — Paul Gallico
Stories — Saki
Story of My Life — Helen Keller
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The — Robert Louis Stevenson
Thirty-Nine Steps, The — John Buchan
Three Musketeers, The — Alexander Dumas
Through the Looking Glass — Lewis Carroll
Thurber Carnival, The — James Thurber
Time Machine, The — H.G. Wells
To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
Tortilla Flat — John Steinbeck
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A — Betty Smith
Two Years before the Mast — Richard Henry Dana
Up from Slavery — Booker T. Washington
Virginian — Owen Wister
Wall, The — John Hersey
War of the Worlds — H.G. Wells
Wind, Sand and Stars — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Yearling, The — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
…and Now Miguel — Joseph Krumgold
Adam of the Road — Elizabeth Janet Gray
Anne of Green Gables — L.M. Montgomery
Bear Called Paddington, A — Michael Bond
Bears on Hemlock Mountain, The — Alice Dalgliesh
Ben & Me — Robert Lawson
Betsy series — Carolyn Haywood
Big Red — Jim Kjelgaard
Black Beauty — Anna Sewell
Black Stallion, The — Walter Farley
Blueberries for Sal — Robert McCloskey
Book of Nonsense — Edward Lear
Born Free — Joy Adamson
Borrowers series, The — Mary Norton
Cabin Faced West, The — Jean Fritz
Caddie Woodlawn — Carol Ryrie Brink
Call It Courage — Armstrong Sperry
Call of the Wild, The — Jack London
Captains Courageous — Rudyard Kipling
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch — Jean Lee Latham
Cat in the Hat, The — Dr. Seuss
Cat Who Went to Heaven, The — Elizabeth Coatsworth
Charlotte’s Web — E.B. White
Cheaper By the Dozen — Frank B. and Gilbreth
Children of Green Knowe, The — L.M. Boston
Child’s Garden of Verses, A — Robert Louis Stevenson
Chronicles of Narnia series — C.S. Lewis
Cinderella — Charles Perrault
Courage of Sarah Noble, The — Alice Dalgliesh
Cricket in Times Square, The — George Selden
Curious George series — H.A. Rey
Dark Frigate, The — Charles Hawes
Doctor Doolittle series — Hugh Lofting
Door in the Wall, The — Marguerite De Angeli
Enormous Egg, The — Oliver Butterworth
Ernestine G. Carey — Frank B. and Gilbreth
Fables — Aesop
Fairy tales — Hans Christian Andersen
Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon — Dhan Ghopal Mukerji
Ginger Pye — Eleanor Estes
Goodnight, Moon — Margaret Wise Brown
Grimm’s Fairy Tales — Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates — Mary Mapes Dodge
Harry the Dirty Dog — Gene Zion
Heidi — Johanna Spyri
Henry Huggins series — Beverly Cleary
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years — Rachel Field
Homer Price — Robert McCloskey
House at Pooh Corner, The — A.A. Milne
House of Sixty Fathers, The — Meindert De Jong
Invincible Louisa — Cornelia Meigs
Jungle Books, The — Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories for Little Children — Rudyard Kipling
Kidnapped — Robert Louis Stevenson
King of the Wind — Marguerite Henry
Lassie Come Home — Eric Knight
Laughing Boy — Oliver LaFarge
Light in the Forest, The — Conrad Richter
Little Bear — Else Holmelund Minarik
Little House series — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Women — Louisa May Alcott
Madeline series — Ludwig Bemelmans
Make Way for Ducklings — Robert McCloskey
Mary Poppins series — Pamela L. Travers
Matchlock Gun, The — Walter D. Edmonds
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The — Howard Pyle
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel — Virginia Lee Burton
Miracles on Maple Hill — Virginia Sorenson
Miss Hickory — Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Misty of Chincoteague — Marguerite Henry
Moffats series — Eleanor Estes
Mr. Popper’s Penguins — Richard and Florence Atwater
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle — Betty MacDonald
My Friend Flicka — Mary O’Hara
Now We Are Six — A.A. Milne
Old Yeller — Fred Gipson
Onion John — Joseph Krumgold
Peter Pan — J.M. Barrie
Pippi Longstocking series — Astrid Lindgren
Rabbit Hill — Robert Lawson
Red Pony, The — John Steinbeck
Reluctant Dragon, The — Kenneth Grahame
Rifles for Watie — Harold Keith
Secret Garden, The — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Secret of the Andes — Ann Nolan Clark
Snow Treasure — Marie McSwigan
Story of Babar, The — Jean de Brunhoff
Story of Ferdinand, The — Munro Leaf
Story of Mankind, The — Hendrik Van Loon
Strawberry Girl — Lois Lenski
Stuart Little — E.B. White
Swiss Family Robinson — Johann Wyss
Tale of Peter Rabbit, The — Beatrix Potter
Tom’s Midnight Garden — Philippa Pearce
Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson
Trumpeter of Krakow, The — Eric Kelly
Twenty-One Balloons, The — William Pene Du Bois
Velveteen Rabbit, The — Margery Williams
Wheel on the School, The — Meindert De Jong
When We Were Very Young — A.A. Milne
White Fang — Jack London
Wind in the Willows, The — Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh — A.A. Milne
Witch of Blackbird Pond, The — Elizabeth George Speare
Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The — L. Frank Baum
Timeless and classic :
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notredame - Victor Hugo
to name just five. I don’t suppose you want all the heavy stuff by Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, but they’re all classics.
F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
Charles Dickens- Great Expectations
Lewis Carroll- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass
Gaston Leroux- Phantom of the Opera
Beowulf- Translated by Seamus Heaney
Voltaire- Candide
Chaucer- Canterbury Tales
Frances Burney- Evelina
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Oscar Wilde- The Importance of Being Earnest
Gilbert and Sullivan- Mikado, or The Town of Titipu
JM Barrie- Peter Pan
William Faulkner- The Sound and the Fury
pride and prejudice by jane austen
emma by jane austen
persuasion by jane austen
sense and sensibility by jane austen
great expectations by charles dickens
a tale of two cities by charles dickens
moby **** by herman melville
the hornblower saga by c.s. forester
the once and future king by t.h. white
charlotte’s web by e.b. white
the trumpet of the swan by e.b. white
stuart little by e.b. white
to kill a mockingbird by harper lee
the hobbit by j.r.r. tolkien
little house on the prairie books by laura ingalls wilder
what do fish have to do with anything? by avi
the giver by lois lowry
gathering blue by lois lowry
the devil’s arithmetic by jane yolen
anna karenina by leo tolstoy
jane eyre by charlotte bronte
wuthering heights by emily bronte
poirot by agatha christie
lord peter wimsey by dorothy l. sayers
The first list has just about everythnig I’d recommend. I’d like to add one book that I had to read for school and then re-read on my own.
A Separate Peace - the author’s name escapes me right now.
Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters wrote good stuff.
Well ones that are considered classics that I have read:
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (really good)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (really really good)
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut (amazing!)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Here are some contemporary novels:
RAYMOND CHANDLER (1888-1959)
The Big Sleep
HENRY MILLER (1891-1980)
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
PEARL BUCK (1892-1973)
The Good Earth
ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894 in England–1963)
Brave New World
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)
The Last Tycoon
Tender Is the Night
This Side of Paradise
JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896-1970)
Manhattan Transfer
One Man’s Initiation
Three Soldiers
U.S.A.:
-The 42nd Parallel-
-1919-
-The Big Money-
WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)
Absalom, Absalom!
As I Lay Dying
Intruder in the Dust
Light in August
The Sound and the Fury
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea (novella)
The Sun Also Rises
VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899 in Russia–1977)
Lolita
Pale Fire
THOMAS WOLFE (1900-1938)
Look Homeward, Angel
You Can’t Go Home Again
MARGARET MITCHELL (1900-1949)
Gone With The Wind
JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968)
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
AYN RAND (1905 in Russia–1982)
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989)
All the King’s Men
RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)
Black Boy
Native Son
WILLIAM SAROYAN (1908-1981)
The Human Comedy
WALTER VAN TILBURG CLARK (1909-1971)
The Ox-Bow Incident
HERMAN WOUK (1915- )
The Caine Mutiny
The Winds of War
J. D. SALINGER (1919- )
Franny and Zooey
RAY BRADBURY (1920- )
Fahrenheit 451
JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969)
On the Road (tales)
KURT VONNEGUT, JR. (1922- )
Breakfast of Champions
Cat’s Cradle
MARY FLANNERY O’CONNOR (1925-1964)
Wise Blood
GORE VIDAL (1925- )
Burr
Myra Breckinridge
HARPER LEE (1926- )
To Kill a Mockingbird
PHILIP K. **** (1928-1982)
The Man in the High Castle
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
JOHN UPDIKE (1932- )
Rabbit Run
PHILIP ROTH (1933- )
Goodbye, Columbus (novella)
Portnoy’s Complaint
KEN KESEY (1935-2001)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Sometimes a Great Notion
Casting the Runes;
The Monk;
Saki;
Fathers and Sons;
The Mayor of Casterbridge;
Lord Jim