Hello,
I just turned 37, and I have recently realized I have probably only read maybe 2 or 3 books in my lifetime that weren't mandatory reading during my school years. I would like to rectify that this year. Below is a list of novels I have heard are essential and was wondering if there are others I should add to my "Must Read List".
- The Cather in the Rye
- 1984
- Fahrenheit 451
- Moby Dick
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Frankenstein
- Dracula
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Lord of the Flies
by ObliterationBeam
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To Kill A Mocking Bird and Watership Down would be great additions
The Color Purple
The Little Prince
Catch-22
The Great Gatsby
The Stranger
Animal Farm
The Call of the Wild
If you haven’t read many books outside from the mandatory school readings above, do you wish to read books similar to them? Or other genres that may engage you more?
Honestly, reading only the “greats” is where you will struggle with sustaining reading – find a genre or type of writing style you like and enjoy it, you can always smatter in the classics when you are in a routine. As long as your reading thats the main thing, and audiobooks count too! But for my two pennith:
1. And then there were none
2. Lord of the Rings (this is tough to get into tho – be warned and skip the poems if you have to )
3. The Martian / Project Hail Mary
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns
5. Homegoing
6. Pride and Prejudice
7. Never let me go / Remains of the day
8. Trespasses
9. The Handmaids Tale
10. The man in the High Castle
Silas Marner
Vilette
Wuthering Heights
Anna Karenina
Love in the Time of Cholera
The House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter
One Hundred Years of Solitude