My Library

As an English major in college, I had the opportunity to read a lot of great literature and some not so great literature too. Here is my rather extensive list of things worth reading. Anything here you disagree with? Anything not here you think I need to consider adding? Let me know!

	Author	Title	Notes
A	Adams, R. Alcott, Louisa May Auel, Jean M. Austen, Jane	Watership Down Little Women Clan of the Cave Bear Pride and Prejudice	Jean Auel's series is good through book 3 and then they got too long winded for me.
B	Baum, L. Frank Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, Ray Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Buck, Pearl S. Bunyan, John Burgess, Anthony	Wizard of Oz The Martian Chronicles Fahrenheit 451 Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights The Good Earth Pilgrim's Progress A Clockwork Orange
C	Camus, Albert Camus, Albert Card, Orson Scott Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Lewis Chaucer, Geoffrey Chopin, Kate Clarke, Arthur C. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Conrad, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Crighton, Michael	The Plague The Stranger Ender’s Game Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass Canterbury Tales The Awakening Childhood's End The Rime of The Ancient Mariner Lord Jim Heart of Darkness Jurassic Park	For science fiction fans, anything by Arthur C. Clarke is a must read.
D	Dahl, Roald Dengler, Marianna Dick, Philip K. Dickens, Charles Dickens, Charles Dorris & Erdrich Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dumas, Alexander	Charlie and The Choc. Factory Catch The Passing Breeze The Man in the High Castle A Tale of Two Cities A Christmas Carol The Crown of Columbus Crime and Punishment The Count of Monte Cristo	Catch the Passing Breeze will probably never be considered a classic but it is a great book for young teens.
E	Eliot, George Ellison, Ralph	Silas Marner Invisible Man
F	Farley, Walter Faulkner, William Faulkner, William Fitzgerald, F. Scott Frank, Anne	The Black Stallion As I Lay Dying The Bear The Great Gatsby The Diary of a Young Girl
G	Gabaldon, Diana Gardner, John George, Jean Craighead Golding, William Goldman, William	Outlander Grendel My Side of The Mountain Lord of The Flies The Princess Bride
H	Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Heller, Joseph Herbert, Frank Hesse, Hermann Homer Homer Huxley, Aldous	The Scarlet Letter The Old Man and The Sea For Whom The Bell Tolls The Sun Also Rises Catch-22 Dune Siddhartha The Iliad The Odyssey Brave New World
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J	James, Henry Juster, Norton	The Turn of the Screw The Phantom Tollbooth
K	King, Stephen & Peter Straub Kingston, Maxine Hong Kipling, Rudyard Koestler, Arthur Konigsburg, E. L.	The Talisman Woman Warrior Kim Darkness At Noon From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
L	L'Engle, Madeleine LaHaye, Tim & Jerry B. Jenkins Lee, Harper LeGuin, Ursula K. Lewis, C.S. Lewis, Sinclair London, Jack London, Jack	A Wrinkle In Time Left Behind series (12 books) To Kill A Mockingbird The Left Hand of Darkness The Chronicles of Narnia Babbitt The Sea Wolf Call of the Wild
M	Marshall, Catherine Melville, Herman Melville, Herman Miller, Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller Jr., Walter M.	Christy Moby Dick Billy Budd Death of a Salesman The Crucible A Canticle For Leibowitz
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O	O’Brien, Robert O'Brien, Robert Orwell, George Orwell, George	Z for Zachariah Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1984 Animal Farm	Z for Zachariah is a great teen book that deals with the possibility of being one of the last people alive on Earth.
P	Philbrick, Rodman	Freak The Mighty
*Q/R*	Raskin, Ellen Rhys, Jean	The Westing Game Wide Sargasso Sea
S	Salten, Felix Sewell, Elizabeth Sinclair, Upton Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Smith, Betty Sophocles Sophocles Steinbeck, John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck, John Steinbeck, John Stevenson, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Robert Lewis Stoker, Bram Stowe, Harriet Beecher Swift, Jonathan	Bambi Black Beauty The Jungle Hamlet Henry IV Macbeth King Lear The Taming of the Shrew Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer's Night Dream A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Oedipus Rex Antigone Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men The Pearl The Red Pony Kidnapped Treasure Island Dracula Uncle Tom's Cabin Gulliver's Travels
T	Taylor, Theodore Thoreau, Henry David Toffler, Alvin Tolkien, J. R. R. Twain, Mark Twain, Mark	The Cay Walden The Third Wave The Hobbit The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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V	Virgil Voltaire Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt	Aeneid Candide Cat's Cradle Slaughterhouse Five
W	Walker, Alice Welch, James Wells, H. G. Wharton, Edith White, E. B. Wilde, Oscar Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wister, Owen Woolf, Virginia Wright, Richard Wright, Richard	The Color Purple Winter In The Blood The Time Machine Ethan Frome Charlotte's Web The Picture of Dorian Gray Little House On The Prairie The Virginian To The Lighthouse Black Boy Native Son
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Z	Zola, Emile	Germinal