Reading List

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AUTOBIOGRAPHIES & BIOGRAPHIES

1. A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
2. It’s Not About The Bike, Lance Armstrong
3. Long Walk To Freedom, Nelson Mandela
4. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank  *
5. Wild Swans, Jung Chang

BOOK SERIES’

Fair warning; most of these, if not all, will be fantasy.

1. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
2. A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin
3. Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling  *
4. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
5. Lockwood & Co. Series, Jonathan Stroud
6. Millenium, Steig Larsson
7. The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Jonathan Stroud *
   • The Ring of Solomon, Jonathan Stroud *   (Prequel)
8. The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis *
9. The Dark Tower Series, Stephen King
10. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
11. The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien *
    • The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien *   (Prequel)
    • The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien   (Prequel)
    • The Children of Húrin, J. R. R. Tolkien / Christopher Tolkien (Prequel)
12. The Faraway Tree Series, Enid Blyton

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Sometime over the last few years I have neglected most of the novels on this list in favor of comic books and graphic novels. I am still fascinated by these, so here a list I plan on getting through in the near future. 

1. Batman: Knightfall
2. Batman: The Killing Joke, Alan Moore
3. Batman: The Long Halloween, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale *
   • Batman: Dark Victory, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale (sequel)
4. Batman: Arkham Asylum, Grant Morrison and Dave McKean
5. Batman: Year One, Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli *
6. Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, Frank Miller & John Romita Jr.  *
7. Kingdom Come, Mark Waid and Alex Ross.
8. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
9. Saga, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
10. The Complete Maus, Art Spiegelman *
11. The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
12. Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?, Neil Gaiman *
13. Watchmen, Alan Moore
14. Gotham by Gaslight, Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola

CLASSICS

Honestly, I am not a fan. I have always picked up the classics with great reluctance, so at some point I decided that a list of books I must read, might help push me on my way.

1. 1984, George Orwell
2. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
3. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
5. Animal Farm, George Orwell
6. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
7. Anne Of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery
8. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
9. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
11. For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
12. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
13. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
14. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
15. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
16. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
17. Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
18. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
19. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
20. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
21. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
22. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
23. Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
24. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
25. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
26. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
27. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
28. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
30. The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
32. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
33. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald *
34. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
35. The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
36. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
37. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
38. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
39. Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Caroll
40. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee *
41. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
42. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

SOUTH ASIAN WRITING

This list will exclude the badly written novels novels with terrible titles that have been masquerading as Indian “fiction” for the last decade or so.   

1. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
2. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
3. Chowringhee, Sankar
4. Em and the big Hoom, Jerry Pinto
5. English, August, Upamanyu Chatterjee
6. Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
7. Gora, Rabindranath Tagore
8. Malgudi Days, R.K. Narayanan
9. Maximum City, Suketu Mehta
10. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
11. Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts
12. Tales from Firozsha Baag, Rohinton Mistry *
13. Thackeray Mansion, Sankar
14. The Blue Umbrella, Ruskin Bond
15. The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
16. The Intrepretar of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
17. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy *
18. The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri
19. The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
20. The Palace of Illusions, Chitra Banerjee Devakurni
21. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
22. The Quilt and other stories, Ismat Chugtai
23. Train to Pakistan, Khushwant Singh
24. Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri *
25. Untouchable, Mulk Raj Anand

POEMS

1. Collected Poems, W. B. Yeats
2. Odes, John Keats
3. Paradise Lost, John Milton
4. Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake 
5. Sonnets, Shakespeare
6. The Iliad, Homer
7. The Odyssey, Homer
8. The Prelude, William Wordsworth
9. The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

MISC.

1. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini *
3. Aesops Fables
4. And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
5. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
6. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
7. Elanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell
8. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
9. Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk
10. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
11. Looking For Alaska, John Green
12. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
13. Love Story, Erich Segal 
14. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden *
15. Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
16. Nefertiti, Michelle Moran 
17. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
18. Paper Towns, John Green
19. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
20. Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
21. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath *
22. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak *
23. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
24. The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
25. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
26. The Heretic Queen, Michelle Moran
27. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
28. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini *
29. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
30. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
31. The Perks of being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
32. The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller *
33. The Time Travelers Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
34. This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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