These are the books I haven’t read. Or in some cases, books I think I read only half paying attention. If a book is not on the list, it means either a.) I’ve read it or b.) Oprah didn’t recommend it (just kidding – Oprah has had very little bearing on this list).
I’d like to build the list up to fifty books, so if you think there is something that I missed, let me know.
| Title | Author | Done? |
| 1984 | George Orwell | |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | |
| A Whole New Mind – NEW | Daniel H. Pink | |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | |
| Dubliners | James Joyce | |
| Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | |
| Four Quartets | T.S. Eliot | |
| Harry Potter | J.K. Rowling | |
| How We Decide – NEW | Jonah Lehrer | |
| I Live in the Future and Here’s How it Works – NEW | Nick Bilton | |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | |
| Kafka on the Shore – NEW | Haruki Murakami | |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | |
| Man’s Search for Meaning – NEW | Viktor Frankl | DONE! |
| Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | |
| Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter – NEW | Antonia Fraser | |
| On the Road – NEW | Jack Kerouac | |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| Sophie’s Choice | William Styron | |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu | |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | |
| The Dharma Bums | Jack Kerouac | |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | |
| The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larrson | |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| The Mesh – NEW | Lisa Gansky | |
| The Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | |
| The Outsider | Colin Wilson | |
| The Republic | Plato | |
| The Rights of Man | Tom Paine | |
| The Shining | Stephen King | |
| The War of Art – NEW | Stephen Pressfield | DONE! |
| The Wisdom of the Desert | Thomas Merton | |
| Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson | |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Becket | |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau | |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | |
| When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead – NEW | Jerry Weintraub | DONE! |
Books that have been suggested, but I don’t quite have room to add yet:
- The Red Tent: A Novel by Anita Diamant
- Tales from Firozsha Baag of a Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- The Book Of Negroes – Lawrence Hill
- She by H. Rider Haggard and Daniel Karlin
- The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
- What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
- The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
- A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzan
- Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
hiya here are some suggested great books:
1.The Red Tent: A Novel by Anita Diamant
2.Tales from Firozsha Baag of a Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
3.The Book Of Negroes – Lawrence Hill
4. She by H. Rider Haggard and Daniel Karlin
5.The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
6.What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
7.The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
8.A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzan
9.Jungle by Upton Sinclair
10.The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Awesome list! I haven’t read any of them – I can’t wait to investigate!
i read…when i am lost i read more…so i can recommend hundreds
I recommend A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, if you haven’t read it already. Another good one, also about a young woman coming of age, is A Life of Her Own by Emilie Carles.
I definitely need to read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn now that I’m living in Brooklyn. And A Life of Her Own sounds great too!