There are so many books that I own but haven’t read. And then there are those books that everyone should have read at least once in their life.
This is a list of the books that are on my literal and imaginary TBR pile
A
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe – Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything – Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish – Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless – Douglas Adams
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Sense & Sensibility – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Little Women – Louisa Alcott
Watership Down – Richard Adam
B
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Furies of Calderon – Jim Butcher
Academ’s Fury – Jim Butcher
Cursor’s Fury – Jim Butcher
Captain’s Fury – Jim Butcher
Princep’s Fury – Jim Butcher
First Lord’s Fury – Jim Butcher
Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
C
The Rehearsal – Eleanor Catton
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
D
The Women Who Walked Into Doors – Roddy Doyle
Out of Afrika – Isak Denisen
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
A Study in Scarlet – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fears – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
E
F
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
G
Paper Towns – John Green (Review)
A Patchwork Marriage – Jane Green
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – Seth Grahame-Smith
Ordinary People – Judith Guest
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
H
The Art of Fielding – Chad Harback (Review)
Dead Reckoning – Charlaine Harris
Deadlocked – Charlaine Harris
The Fear Index – Robert Harris
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Homer’s the Odyssey
Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
I
J
K
Anyone out there? – Marian Keyes
Dead Poet Society – N.H. Kleinbaum
On Writing – Stephen King
Gerald’s Game – Stephen King
Firestarter – Stephen King
The Dead Zone – Stephen King
Lisey’s Story – Stephen King (Review)
The Tommyknockers – Stephen King
The Running Man – Stephen King (Review)
The Mist – Stephen King
Dreamcatcher – Stephen King
From a Buick 8 – Stephen King
Bag of Bones – Stephen King
Nightmares & Dreamscapes – Stephen King
11/22/63 – Stephen King
L
Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
M
Night Circus – Erin Morgenstein
Bad Things – Michael Marshall
Getting over Mr. Right – Chrissie Manby
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Cloud Atlass – David Mitchell
N
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
O
1984 – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
P
Handle with Care – Jodi Picoult
Picture Perfect – Jodi Picoult
Keeping Faith – Jodi Picoult
Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult
Second Glance – Jodi Picoult
Change of Heart – Jodi Picoult
Sing you Home – Jodi Picoult
The Amber Spyglass – Phillip Pullman
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Q
R
Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat – Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned – Anne Rice
S
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
T
Vanity Fair – William Thackeray
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
U
V
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island – Jules Verne
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
W
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Charlotte’s Web – EB White
X
Y
Z
This is a good idea, I’m going to copy you. Goodreads isn’t helping me when it comes to getting books read, it’s just aiding me in adding books.
Haha, okay. I always forget to update my Goodreads. That’s why I don’t have it as a widget on here, it’s horrible unrepresentative of what I’ve read..
But I’m also pretty sure I forgot about loads of books on this list as well!
Looking forward to seeing yours though!
My, you have a lot of books to read! I’m almost as bad though, so I can’t judge. These are the to-read books we have in common: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Little Women, Wuthering Heights, Peter Pan, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Paper Towns, Lord of the Flies, Catch-22, Les Mis, The Scarlet Letter, everything by Stephen King, The Phantom of the Opera, Night Circus, Rebecca, Gone with the Wind, Lolita, The Time Traveler’s Wife, everything by Jodi Picoult except My Sister’s Keeper, The Bell Jar, everything by Anne Rice, everything by John Steinbeck, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and The Picture of Dorian Grey.
Yup. There are A LOT.