Master Reading List

A

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -
Douglas Adams

Watership Down - Richard Adams

A Death in the Family - James Agee

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende

Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis

Money - Martin Amis

Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson

And I Still Rise - Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

Kane And Abel - Jeffrey Archer

Sohrab and Rustum - Matthew Arnold

Days of Grace - Arthur Ashe and Arnold Ramperstad

Foundation -
Isaac Asimov

The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth - David Attenborough

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

The Clan Of The Cave Bear - Jean M Auel

Confessions -
St Augustine

Emma - Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice -
Jane Austen

B

Illusions - Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull -
Richard Bach

Growing Up - Russell Baker

Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin

Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac

The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

Zuleika Dobson - Max Beerbohm

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 - Edward Bellamy

Herzog - Saul Bellow

Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow

Seize The Day - Saul Bellow

The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow

The Old Wives’ Tale - Arnold Bennett

Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres

Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore

Noughts And Crosses - Malorie Blackman

Songs of Innocence and Experience -
William Blake

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume

The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton

Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges

The Life of Dr Johnson -
Boswell

The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen

The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles

Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury

Mother Courage and Her Children - Bertolt Brecht

The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski

Jane Eyre -
Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown

Babar -
Jean de Brunhoff

Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Tarzan Series - Edgar Rice Burroughs

Naked Lunch - William Burroughs

The Way of the Flesh - Samuel Butler

Possession - A.S. Byatt

C

The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot

The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain

Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell

The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell

The Stranger - Albert Camus

Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carre

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy -
John le Carré

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

Silent Spring - Rachel Carson

Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

My Antonia - Willa Cather

The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

Canterbury Tales - Chaucer

The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov

Falconer - John Cheever

The Wapshop Chronicles - John Cheever

The Father Brown stories - G. K. Chesterton

The Awakening - Kate Chopin

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples -
Winston Churchill

Murder on the Orient Express -
Agatha Christie

The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy

Diaries -
Alan Clark

The Ox-Bow Incident - Walter Van Tilburg Clark

2001: A Space Odyssey -
Arthur C. Clarke

On War -
Carl von Clausewitz

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer

The Woman in White -
Wilkie Collins

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

Nostromo - Joseph Conrad

The Secret Garden - Joseph Conrad

Alistair Cooke's America – Alistair Cooke

The Leatherstocking Tales - James Fennimore Cooper

The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family - Jan D. Criddle and Teeda Butt Mam

Lakota Woman - Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes

Madame Curie - Eve Curie

Complete Poems 1904 - 1962 E.E. Cummings

D

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Matilda - Roald Dahl

The BFG - Roald Dahl

The Twits - Roald Dahl

Divine Comedy -
Dante

On the Origin of Species -
Charles Darwin

The Cunning Man - Robertson Davies

Fifth Business - Robertson Davies

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years - Sara Delany and A. Elizabeth with Amy Hill Hearth

White Noise - Don DeLillo

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -
Philip K. Dick

Ubik - Philip K. Dick

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Deliverance - James Dickey

L'Encyclopédie -
Diderot, et al

Play It As It Lays Joan Didion

Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow

The Ginger Man - J.P. Donleavy

The Complete Poetry oh - John Donne John Donne

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water - Michael Dorris

Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Sherlock Holmes Stories - A. Conan Doyle

An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser

The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durell

E

The Worm Ouroboros - E.R. Eddison

The Waste Land -
T. S. Eliot

Middlemarch -
George Eliot

The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard - Norrie Epstein

Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquiviel

F

The Black Stallion series - Walter Farley

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy - James T. Farrell

Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

Light in August - William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

Magician - Raymond E Feist

A People's Tragedy -
Orlando Figes

Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding

Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Madame Bovary -
Gustave Flaubert

The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

Parade’s End - Ford Madox Ford

The Sportswriter - Richard Ford

A Passage to India - E.M. Forster

A Room With a View - E.M. Forster

Howard’s End - E.M. Forster

The Hornblower series - C. S. Forester

The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles

The Magus - John Fowles

The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin

The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen

On the Interpretation of Dreams -
Sigmund Freud

The Poetry of Robert Frost - Robert Frost

The Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes

G

The Recognitions - William Gaddis

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest Gaines

A Life of Charlotte Brontë -
Elizabeth Gaskell

North & South - Elizabeth Gaskell

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -
Edward Gibbon

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

My House - Nikki Giovanni

The Tipping Point -
Malcolm Gladwell

The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol

Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

The Wind in the Willows -
Kenneth Grahame

The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass

I, Claudius - Robert Graves

Goodbye to All That -
Robert Graves

The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene

Loving - Henry Green

H

King Solomon’s Mines - H. Ryder Haggard

She - H. Ryder Haggard

Roots - Alex Hailey

Mythology - Edith Hamilton

Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton

Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon -
Dashiell Hammett

Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles -
Thomas Hardy

Red Dragon -
Thomas Harris

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes - Stephen Hawking

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Double Star - Robert Heinlein

Citizen of the Galaxy - Robert Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein

The Door Into Summer - Robert Heinlein

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein

The Puppet Masters - Robert Heinlein

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls -
Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Dune - Frank Herbert

The Histories -
Herodotus

Hiroshima - John Hersey

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Kon Tiki and The Ra Expedition - Thor Heyerdahl

The Talented Mr Ripley -
Patricia Highsmith

Leviathan -
Thomas Hobbes

Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock

The Iliad and The Odyssey -
Homer

Battlefield Earth - L. Ron Hubbard

Fear - L. Ron Hubbard

Mission Earth - L. Ron Hubbard

A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes

Collected Poems -
Ted Hughes

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Brave New World -
Aldous Huxley

Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley

I

A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

The World According to Garp - John Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving

The Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

J

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

The Portrait of a Lady -
Henry James

The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

The Ambassadors - Henry James

The Golden Bowl - Henry James

From Here to Eternity - James Jones

Finnegan’s Wake - James Joyce

Ulysses -
James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

K

The Trial - Franz Kafka

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England - Carol Karlsen

Odes -
John Keats

Complete Poems - John Keats

The Story of My Life - Helen Keller

Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy

Ironweed - William Kennedy

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling

Kim - Rudyard Kipling

It - Stephen King

The Stand - Stephen King

Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler

The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski

Born on the Fourth of July - Ron Kovic

L

Les Liaisons Dangereuses -
Choderlos de Laclos

Selected Poems - Langston Hughes

Seven Pillars of Wisdom -
T. E. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence

The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence

Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Killshot -
Elmore Leonard

A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There - Aldo Leopold

The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

The Space Trilogy - C. S. Lewis

Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis

Main Street - Sinclair Lewis

If This is a Man -
Primo Levi

Greenmantle - Charles de Lint

Memory and Dream - Charles de Lint

Moonheart - Charles de Lint

Mulengro - Charles de Lint

Someplace to be Flying - Charles de Lint

The Little Country - Charles de Lint

Trader - Charles de Lint

Yarrow - Charles de Lint

The Poetical Works of Longfellow - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

Short stories - Jack London

At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft

Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

M

Any fantasy collection - George MacDonald

At the Back of the North Wind - George MacDonald

The Prince -
Niccolo Machiavelli

Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian

The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer

The Autobiography of Malcom X - Malcolm X with Alex Hailey

The Assistant - Bernard Malamud

Le Morte D'Arthur -
Thomas Malory

Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe

Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude -
Gabriel García Márquez

Das Kapital -
Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa - Mark Mathabane

Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham

Rebecca -
Daphne du Maurier

Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World - Lewis Maybury

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy

The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers

Atonement - Ian McEwan

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era - James MacPherson

A Year in Provence 
- Peter Mayle

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Death of Salesman - Arthur Miller

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer - Kay Mills

Winnie-the-Pooh 
- A.A. Milne

Paradise Lost -
John Milton

Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

Beloved - Toni Morrison

Sula - Toni Morrison

Under the Net - Iris Murdoch

N

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul

A House for Mr. Biswas - V.S. Naipaul

The Railway Children -
E. Nesbit

O

Master and Commander -
Patrick O'Brian

At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien

A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O’Connor

Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor

The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt - Day by Scott O’Dell

Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara

Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O’Neill

Animal Farm - George Orwell

1984 - George Orwell

P

The Rights of Man -
Tom Paine

The Learning Tree - Gordon Parks

U.S.A. (trilogy) - John Dos Passos

Dr Zhivago -
Boris Pasternak

Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton

Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake

The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

A Child Called 'It' -
Dave Pelzer

The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -
Robert M. Pirsig

The Plantagenet Saga -
Jean Plaidy

The Bell Jar - Silvia Plath

The Republic - Plato

Great Tales and Poems - Edgar Allen Poe

The Murders in the Rue Morgue -
Edgar Allan Poe

The Chosen - Chaim Potok

A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett

Mort - Terry Pratchett

Night Watch - Terry Pratchett

The Colour Of Magic - Terry Pratchett

A la recherche du temps perdu -
Proust

His Dark Materials -
Philip Pullman

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

V. - Thomas Pynchon

The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

R

Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean R

Anthem - Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

We The Living - Ayn Rand

Swallows and Amazons -
Arthur Ransome

The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

Alexander Trilogy -
Mary Renault

All historical novels - Kenneth Roberts

Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson

Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues - Donn Rogosin

Call It Sleep - Henry Roth

American Pastoral - Philip Roth

Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth

The Human Stain - Philip Roth

The Social Contract -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Harry Potter -
J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling

Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets - JK Rowling

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban - JK Rowling

The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

A History of the Crusades 
- Steven Runciman

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

The Readers Digest Great Short Stories of the World

S

Holes - Louis Sachar

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Complete Poems - Carl Sandburg

No Exit - Jean Paul Sartre

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man -
Siegfried Sassoon

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution -
Simon Schama

Shane - Jack Schaefer

Schott's Original Miscellany -
Ben Schott

Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott

A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

Katherine - Anya Seton

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, others. - Shakespeare

Sonnets
- Shakespeare

Man and Superman, Saint Joan, Pygmalion, others. - Bernard Shaw

Frankenstein -
Mary Shelley

A Town like Alice - Nevil Shute

On the Beach - Nevil Shute

Trustee from the Toolroom - Nevil Shute

The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

How to Cook - Delia Smith

I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith

White Teeth - Zadie Smith

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

Oedepus Rex - Sophocles

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark

The Ballad of Peckham Rye -
Muriel Spark

One Lonely Night - Mickey Spillane

The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead

Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner

Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Breecher Stowe

Eminent Victorians -
Lytton Strachey

Sophie’s Choice - William Styron

The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron

Lives of the Caesars -
Suetonius

Perfume - Patrick Süskind

Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift

T

The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan

The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Origins of the Second World War - 
A.J.P. Taylor

Idylls of the King - Tennyson

Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession - Studs Terkel

Vanity Fair -
William Makepeace Thackeray

Poems of Dylan Thomas - Thomas, Dylan

Walden - Henry David Thoreau

The History of the Peloponnesian War -
Thucydides

The Barchester Chronicles -
Anthony Trollope.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell

Eats, Shoots and Leaves -
Lynne Truss

Democracy in America -
Alexis de Tocqueville

The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

War and Peace -
Tolstoy

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century - Barbara Tuchman

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

U

Rabbit series -
John Updike

V

Lives of the Artists -
Vasari

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

W

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren

A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

Sword of Honour trilogy -Evelyn Waugh

Scoop - Evelyn Waugh

Night - Elie Weisel

The Time Machine - H. G. Wells

War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells

Thirteen Stories - Eudora Welty

The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Our Town - Thornton Wilder

The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-65 - Juan Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

Selected Poems - William Carlos Williams

The Piano Lesson - August Wilson

Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson

Girls In Love - Jacqueline Wilson

The Story Of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson

Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson

The Wood Wife - Terri Windling

The Once and Future King - T. H. White

The Prelude - William Wordsworth

Poems - William Wordsworth

The Beauty Myth -
Naomi Wolf

Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Native Son - Richard Wright

The Day of the Triffids -
John Wyndham

Swiss Family Robinson - J. R. Wyss

Y

Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates

Collected Poems -
W. B. Yeats

Favorite Folktales From Around the World - Jane Yolen