If the reading lists we provided in this previous post seemed a tad daunting, then we have just the thing! For today’s recommendations, we have moved out of the aspirational world of required academic reading and into a more personal realm. So, next time you are browsing your local library or bookstore, make sure you have this list on hand so you can pick up the favourite novels and collections of the authors you admire.
Malcolm Gladwell
Stone’s Fall: A Novel by Iain Pears
Paulo Coelho
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ayn Rand
Calumet K by Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster
Joan Didion
Victory by Joseph Conrad
Ray Bradbury
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
George R.R. Martin
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vladimir Nabokov
Ulysses by James Joyce
Jane Austen
Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson
Gillian Flynn
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
R.L. Stine
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Amy Tan
Jing Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) by an anonymous Chinese writer
J.K. Rowling
Emma by Jane Austen
Maya Angelou
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
John Steinbeck
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
David Foster Wallace
The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Chuck Palahniuk
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Aeneid by Virgil
Jonathan Franzen
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
Joyce Carol Oates
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Zadie Smith
Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
Stephen King
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Tom Clancy
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
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