What are some books that I *have* to read?

Question

In your opinion? As in, if I don't read them I'll miss something very exciting and well-written. :)

Answer 1

Favorite Answer

The 100 Best Books I’ve Read So Far

1. Watership Down, Richard Adams

2. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley*

3. 1984, George Orwell*

4. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

5. Non-Violent Resistance: Satyagraha, Mohandas K. Gandhi

6. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl

7. Island, Aldous Huxley

8. Green Shadows, White Whale, Ray Bradbury

9. In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka

10. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger*

11. The Last Battle, C. S. Lewis

12. Borderliners, Peter Hoeg

13. Animal Farm, George Orwell*

14. Our Town, Thornton Wilder

15. Beware the Fish!, Gordon Korman

16. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

17. The Mouse That Roared (series), Leonard Wibberly

18. Night, Elie Wiesel

19. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

20. The Short Stories, Ernest Hemingway

21. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald*

22. Antigone, Sophocles

23. I Sing the Body Electric!, Ray Bradbury

24. Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan

25. All Creatures Great and Small (series), James Herriot

26. Babar’s Anniversary Book, Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff

27. Pigs Might Fly, Dick King-Smith

28. James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl

29. The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling

30. Gandhi on Non-Violence, Mohandas K. Gandhi

31. The Little History of the Wide World, Mable Pyne

32. The Magus, John Fowles*

33. The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis

34. Hamlet, William Shakespeare

35. Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton

36. A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines

37. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

38. The Zucchini Warriors, Gordon Korman

39. The Celery Stalks at Midnight, James Howe

40. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction, J. D. Salinger

41. Beloved, Toni Morrison

42. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

43. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

44. Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

45. Danny, Champion of the World, Roald Dahl

46. The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury

47. The Time Garden, Edward Eager

48. The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne

49. A Medicine for Melancholy, Ray Bradbury

50. 40 Stories, Donald Barthelme

51. Matilda, Roald Dahl

52. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

53. Losing Joe’s Place, Gordon Korman

54. Uncle Wiggily’s Story Book, Howard R. Garis

55. Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger

56. The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot

57. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

58. No Coins, Please, Gordon Korman

59. The Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling

60. The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader", C. S. Lewis

61. Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger

62. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, Barbara Robinson

63. The Peace Book, Bernard Benson

64. The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe

65. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

66. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

67. Boy, Roald Dahl

68. Nothing But the Truth, Avi

69. Little House on the Prarie (series), Laura Ingalls Wilder

70. The Toynbee Convector, Ray Bradbury

71. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr

72. The October Country, Ray Bradbury

73. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Roald Dahl

74. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

75. Bunnicula, Deborah and James Howe

76. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White

77. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis

78. A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag, Gordon Korman

79. The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley

80. We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

81. Magic or Not?, Edward Eager

82. The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle (series), Hugh Lofting

83. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

84. Driving Blind, Ray Bradbury

85. Long After Midnight, Ray Bradbury

86. Early Stories, Anton Chekov

87. Marcovaldo, Italo Calvino

88. Dubliners, James Joyce

89. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl

90. Quicker Than the Eye, Ray Bradbury

91. Miracle on 34th Street, Valentine Davies

92. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

93. How to Play Better Baseball, C. Paul Jackson

94. Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary

95. The Golden Apples of the Sun, Ray Bradbury

96. Frog and Toad are Friends (series), Arnold Lobel

97. I Will Adventure, Elizabeth Janet Gray

98. The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams

99. Mossflower, Brian Jacques

100. Who is Bugs Potter?, Gordon Korman

Source(s): ME!!!

Answer 2

The Diary of Anne Frank

1984

The Sparrow

Anything by Edgar Allan Poe

Dracula

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Great Gatsby

Narnia Series

Harry Potter Series

If on a winter's night a traveler

A Long Way Gone

Persepolis

The Phantom Tollbooth

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Pygmalion

To Kill a Mockingbird

World War Z

The Plague

A Walk in the Woods

Happy Reading!

Answer 3

As was previously stated, The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Some other good ones:

-The Mortal Instrument Series (City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass) by Cassandra Clare.

- Impulse by Ellen Hopkins (don't bother with Crank, Glass, Fallout, the story line in Impulse is much better)

- Burned by Ellen Hopkins (same as above)

- Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

- The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen (by far her most moving book)

- The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

I've got some others but these books were either A: hugely inspirational and books that changed my life or B: An amazing read/ well written.

hope this helps :)

Answer 4

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

The Snow Queen by Joan Vinge

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

Dancing At The Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig

The Elegance of The Hedghog by Muriel Barbery

The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Little Prince by Antoine St. Exupery

1984 by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Dune by Frank Herbert

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Anything by William Shakespear

Mythogo Wood by Robert Holdstock

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Rebecca by Daphne Dumaurier

An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden

The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Source(s): My bookshelves at home

Answer 5

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

(Great series; much better character development than the Narnia books)

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

(long book, highly philosophical, thought provoking, if you are into this type of literature you will love it, my favorite!!)

The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde

(Oscar Wilde is an amazing writer and this play is humor versus cynical like The Picture of Dorian Grey)

The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner

(quick read, love the main character, the rest of the series is good as well)

Answer 6

1894 - George Orwell

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (Pretty sure that spelling's right...)

A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko

There are a ton more I can't think of at the moment.

Edit: Luisa P has a good list.

Answer 7

The Miracle Of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden

Answer 8

Hi,

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Good luck and happy reading.

Answer 9

well i dont know if your a guy or a girl, but if you are a girl.. i really recommened the book

TWO WAY STREET -- Lauren Barnholdt

I could NOT put the book down!!!! Amazing book ive read:)

Answer 10

The hunger games trilogy