Hey, I’ve built up a massive TBR pile of classics, modern fiction, and nonfiction, and I’m feeling overwhelmed on where to start. But these are the books I currently have on hand and can dive into right away. I’d love your input on which to pick up first or how to group them in an optimal reading order.
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Adams: Watership Down
Alcott: Little Women
Augustine: City of God
Austen (3): Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park
Brontë Sisters (3): The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Collins: The Woman in White
Dante: The Divine Comedy
Dickens (14): Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Barnaby Rudge, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Oliver Twist, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Dombey and Son, The Old Curiosity Shop
Dostoevsky (4): Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot
Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Eggers (2): The Circle, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Follett (2): The Pillars of the Earth, Fall of Giants
Fraser: Prairie Fires
Gaskell (5): Wives and Daughters, North and South, Ruth, Cranford, Mary Barton
Goethe: Faust
Graves: I, Claudius
Hardy (2): Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hillenbrand: Seabiscuit
Hobbes: Leviathan
Homer (2): The Iliad, The Odyssey
Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Huxley: The Devils of Loudun
Isaacson: Leonardo da Vinci
Joyce: Ulysses
Kesey: Sometimes a Great Notion
King: The Good Neighbor
Kwan: Crazy Rich Asians
Lore: I am Number Four
Massie: Catherine the Great
McMurtry: Lonesome Dove
Melville: Redburn
Meyer: The Host
Michener: The Source
Milton: Paradise Lost
Mitchell: Gone with the Wind
Nasar: A Beautiful Mind
Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
Proust (2): Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove
Rand (2): Atlas Shrugged, We the Living
Remarque: Three Comrades
Rickman: Madly, Deeply
Roberts: Napoleon
Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis
Solzhenitsyn: In the First Circle
Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma
Stoker: Dracula
Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Tolstoy (2): Anna Karenina, War and Peace
Tuchman (2): A Distant Mirror, The Guns of August
Twain (5): A Tramp Abroad, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Gilded Age, Roughing It, The Innocents Abroad
Verne: In Search of the Castaways
David Foster Wallace: The Broom of the System
Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur
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Any reading suggestions—best starting place, recommended grouping, or an absolute must-read? I would very much appreciate any help!
by NarniaNomad