MAKE A GOAL; READ 100 CLASSIC NOVELS

Literature is arguably (by me) one of the most rewarding pleasures in this life. As bibliophiles, we embrace our affinity to books, seeing them for all their worth. They are our escape from reality, our search for meaning, the inevitable decision to take multiple college English classes at once just because you want time to read some good books.

Read what you want to read. Read the types of books that are important to you, that will bring you insight into your own life journey. JUST READ!

I have compiledmy own list of books that I believe are important to read during my life. Notice all the Jane Austen sprinkled throughout. The ultimate goal is to read at least one hundred classic novels. No deadline, I’m just going to do it.

01.     The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

02.     The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

03.     The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

04.     Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

05.     Animal Farm by George Orwell

06.     Anthem by Ayn Rand

07.     Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

08.     Atonement by Ian McEwan

09.     The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

10.     Birdsong by Don Stap

11.     Brave New World by Aldus Huxley

12.     The Call of the Wild by Jack London

13.     The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

14.     The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

15.     A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

16.     The Color Purple by Alice Walker

17.     The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

18.     Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

19.     Dangerous Liaisons by Pierce Choderlos De Laclos

20.     The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

21.     The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

22.     Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

23.     The Driver Seat by Muriel Spark

24.     Emma by Jane Austen

25.     The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

26.     For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway

27.     Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

28.     Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

29.     Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

30.     The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

31.     Hamlet by Shakespeare

32.     The Handmaid’s Tale by Margret Atwood

33.     The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

34.     Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

35.     The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien

36.     Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

37.     The Hunger Games by Suzanne Colins

38.     The Iliad by Homer

39.     The Inferno by Dante

40.     The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

41.     Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradb

42.     The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

43.     Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

44.     The Holy Bible

45.     The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

46.      The Kama Sutra

47.     La Boheme by Gluseppe Glacosta

48.     Lady Susan by Jane Austen

49.     The Lais of Marie de France

50.     Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

51.     The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

52.     The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R. Tolkien

53.     Lord of the Flies by William Golding

54.     Love and Friendship by Jane Austen

55.     Macbeth by Shakespeare

56.     Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

57.     Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

58.     Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

59.     Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

60.     Moby Dick by Herman Melville

61.     Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

62.     Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

63.     The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

64.     The Odyssey by Homer

65.     Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

66.     On The Road by Jack Kerouac

67.     One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

68.     Paradise Lost by John Milton

69.     The Penelopaid by Margret Atwood

70.     Persuasion by Jane Austen

71.     Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie

72.     A Picture of Dorian Gray by Ernest Hemmingway

73.     Possession by Laurence Housman

74.     Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

75.     Puff by Bob Flaherty

76.     The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

77.     Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

78.     Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

79.     Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

80.     The Rover by Aphra Behn

81.     The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn

82.     The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

83.     Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

84.     Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

85.     Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake

86.     The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway

87.     A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

88.     Things Fall Apart by Chinoa Achebe

89.     Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

90.     To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

91.     Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

92.     Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

93.     The Viking Book Of Poetry

94.     War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

95.     Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

96.     The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

97.     The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum

98.     Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

99.     10 Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly

100.   The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes