List that is. This is my book list! Everything here was slowly compiled by brainstorming all of the books I’d like to read for fun, books I think I’ll feel smarter after reading, and books I think I’m culturally inept without having read. I also consulted several “best book” lists and added those I felt were a good idea, as well as googled “short classics” which brought me to a list of classic novels under 250 pages. I added all the ones I recognized. I want to be well-read, and I figure that there’s no excuse not to read them when they’re so short! I’ll be updating this list as I complete goals and add new books to read.
The list contains many big goals as well as individual books (such as reading the complete works of Shakespeare, every book in the Bible, every Dr. Seuss book, every one of Anne McCaffrey’s Pern novels, etc.) I chose to list each book individually rather than list smaller goals. This is more to help myself keep track than anything else. You might notice that some are crossed off already with no finish date beside them. Those are books I’ve already read; they’re on the list as part of a larger goal.
To see what else I’m going to do, take a look at my Bucket List.
Crossed Through means I’ve done it
- Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Adams, Richard: Watership Down
- Aesop: Aesop’s Fables
- Alighieri, Dante: Divine Comedy
- Anderson, Hans Christian: complete fairy tales and stories
- Angelou, Maya: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Asimov, Isaac: I, Robot
- Austen, Jane: Emma
- Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
- Barrie, J.M.: Peter Pan
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 01: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 02: The Marvelous Land of Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 03: Ozma of Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 04: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 05: The Road to Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 06: The Emerald City of Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 07: The Patchwork Girl of Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 08: Tik-Tok of Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 09: The Scarecrow of Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 10: Rinkitink in Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 11: The Lost Princess of Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 12: The Tin Woodman of Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 13: The Magic of Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 14: Glinda of Oz
- Baum, Frank L.: Oz 15: Little Wizard Stories of Oz
- Bellow, Saul: The Adventures of Augie March
- Bible: Old 01: Genesis
- Bible: Old 02: Exodus
- Bible: Old 03: Leviticus
- Bible: Old 04: Numbers
- Bible: Old 05: Deuteronomy
- Bible: Old 06: Joshua
- Bible: Old 07: Judges
- Bible: Old 08: Ruth
- Bible: Old 09: 1 Samuel
- Bible: Old 10: 2 Samuel
- Bible: Old 11: 1 Kings
- Bible: Old 12: 2 Kings
- Bible: Old 13: 1 Chronicles
- Bible: Old 14: 2 Chronicles
- Bible: Old 15: Ezra
- Bible: Old 16: Nehemiah
- Bible: Old 17: Esther
- Bible: Old 18: Job
- Bible: Old 19: Psalms
- Bible: Old 20: Proverbs
- Bible: Old 21: Ecclesiastes
- Bible: Old 22: Song of Solomon
- Bible: Old 23: Isaiah
- Bible: Old 24: Jeremiah
- Bible: Old 25: Lamentations
- Bible: Old 26: Ezekiel
- Bible: Old 27: Daniel
- Bible: Old 28: Hosea
- Bible: Old 29: Joel
- Bible: Old 30: Amos
- Bible: Old 31: Obadiah
- Bible: Old 32: Jonah
- Bible: Old 33: Micah
- Bible: Old 34: Nahum
- Bible: Old 35: Habakkuk
- Bible: Old 36: Zephaniah
- Bible: Old 37: Haggai
- Bible: Old 38: Zechariah
- Bible: Old 39: Malachi
- Bible: New 01: Matthew
- Bible: New 02: Mark
- Bible: New 03: Luke
- Bible: New 04: John
- Bible: New 05: Acts
- Bible: New 06: Romans
- Bible: New 07: 1 Corinthians
- Bible: New 08: 2 Corinthians
- Bible: New 09: Galatians
- Bible: New 10: Ephesians
- Bible: New 11: Philippians
- Bible: New 12: Colossians
- Bible: New 13: 1 Thessalonians
- Bible: New 14: 2 Thessalonians
- Bible: New 15: 1 Timothy
- Bible: New 16: 2 Timothy
- Bible: New 17: Titus
- Bible: New 18: Philemon
- Bible: New 19: Hebrews
- Bible: New 20: James
- Bible: New 21: 1 Peter
- Bible: New 22: 2 Peter
- Bible: New 23: 1 John
- Bible: New 24: 2 John
- Bible: New 25: 3 John
- Bible: New 26: Jude
- Bible: New 27: Book of Revelation
- Blume, Judy: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret?
- Blume, Judy: Forever
- Bradbury, Ray: The Martian Chronicles
- Bradbury, Ray: Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Bradbury, Ray: Dandelion Wine
- Bradbury, Ray: The Illustrated Man
- Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
- Brown, Dan: The Da Vinci Code
- Bugliosi, Vincent: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
- Burton, Richard Francis (translator): The Arabian Nights
- Camus, Albert: The Stranger
- Capote, Truman: In Cold Blood
- Card, Orson Scott: Ender’s Game
- Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
- Carroll, Lewis: Through the Looking Glass
- Cormier, Robert: The Chocolate War
- Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep
- Chaucer, Geoffrey: Canterbury Tales
- Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage
- Crichton, Michael: Next
- Crichton, Michael: The Andromeda Strain
- Dahl, Roald: Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Dahl, Roald: George’s Marvellous Medecine
- Dahl, Roald: The Twits
- Darwin, Charles: On the Origin of Species
- Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Cruesoe
- Defoe, Daniel: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
- Delany, Samuel R.: Nova
- Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol
- Dickens, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities
- Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
- Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist
- Dickinson, Emily: Complete Poems
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: A Study in Scarlet
- Dr. Seuss: The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
- Dr. Seuss: And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street
- Dr. Seuss: Bartholomew and the Oobleck
- Dr. Seuss: The Butter Battle Book
- Dr. Seuss: The Cat in the Hat
- Dr. Seuss: The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
- Dr. Seuss: The Cat’s Quizzer
- Dr. Seuss: Daisy-Head Mayzie
- Dr. Seuss: Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
- Dr. Seuss: Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book
- Dr. Seuss: The Foot Book
- Dr. Seuss: Fox in Socks
- Dr. Seuss: Great Day for Up!
- Dr. Seuss: Gerald McBoing Boing
- Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs and Ham
- Dr. Seuss: Happy Birthday to You!
- Dr. Seuss: Hop on Pop
- Dr. Seuss: Horton Hatches the Egg
- Dr. Seuss: Horton Hears a Who!
- Dr. Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Dr. Seuss: Hunches in Bunches
- Dr. Seuss: I Am Not Going to Get Up Today!
- Dr. Seuss: I Can Draw It Myself: By Me, Myself with a Little Help from My Friend Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss: I Can Lick Thirty Tigers Today! And Other Stories
- Dr. Seuss: I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
- Dr. Seuss: I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
- Dr. Seuss: If I Ran the Circus
- Dr. Seuss: If I Ran the Zoo
- Dr. Seuss: The King’s Stilts
- Dr. Seuss: The Lorax
- Dr. Seuss: McElligot’s Pool
- Dr. Seuss: Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now
- Dr. Seuss: Mister Brown Can Moo, Can You
- Dr. Seuss: My Book About Me
- Dr. Seuss: Oh Say, Can You Say?
- Dr. Seuss: Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
- Dr. Seuss: Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
- Dr. Seuss: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
- Dr. Seuss: On Beyond Zebra
- Dr. Seuss: Scrambled Eggs Super!
- Dr. Seuss: The Seven Lady Godivas
- Dr. Seuss: Shape of Me and Other Stuff
- Dr. Seuss: Sneetches and Other Stories
- Dr. Seuss: There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!
- Dr. Seuss: Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
- Dr. Seuss: Wet Pet, Dry Pet, Your Pet, My Pet
- Dr. Seuss: What Was I Scared Of?
- Dr. Seuss: Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories Party Edition
- Dr. Seuss: You’re Only Old Once!
- Dr. Seuss: Hooray for Diffendoofer Day
- Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers
- Eliot, George: Silas Marner
- Ellis, Bret Easton: American Psycho
- Ellison, Ralph: The Invisible Man
- Faulkner, William: Absalom, Absalom!
- Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying
- Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury
- Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
- Gaiman, Neil: The Graveyard Book
- Garden, Nancy: Annie on my Mind
- Grahame, Kenneth: The Wind in the Willows
- Green, John: An Abundance of Katherines
- Green, John: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
- Golden, Arthur: Memoirs of a Geisha
- Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the d’Urbervilles
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
- Heinlein, Robert A.: Red Planet
- Heinlein, Robert A.: Stranger in a Strange Land
- Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
- Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
- Herbert, Frank: Dune
- Hesse, Hermann: Siddhartha
- Hitler, Adolf: Mein Kampf
- Hollander, Xaviera: The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
- Homer: The Iliad
- Homer: The Odyssey
- Hopkins, Ellen: Burned
- Hopkins, Ellen: Crank 1: Crank
- Hopkins, Ellen: Crank 2: Glass
- Hopkins, Ellen: Crank 3: Fallout
- Hopkins, Ellen: Identical
- Hopkins, Ellen: Impulse
- Hopkins, Ellen: Perfect
- Hopkins, Ellen: Tricks
- Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
- Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Johnson, Maureen: Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes
- Kafka, Franz: Metamorphosis
- Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Keyes, Daniel: Flowers for Algernon
- King, Stephen: The Stand
- Kipling, Rudyard: The Jungle Book
- Lawrence, D.H.: Lady Chatterly’s Lover
- Lewis, C.S.: Narnia 1: The Magician’s Nephew
- Lewis, C.S.: Narnia 2: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Lewis, C.S.: Narnia 3: The Horse and His Boy
- Lewis, C.S.: Narnia 4: Prince Caspian
- Lewis, C.S.: Narnia 5: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Lewis, C.S.: Narnia 6: The Silver Chair
- Lewis, C.S.: Narnia 7: The Last Battle
- Lowry, Lois: The Giver
- Machiavelli, Niccolo: The Prince
- Maguire, Gregory: Wicked 1: Wicked
- Maguire, Gregory: Wicked 2: Son of a Witch
- Maguire, Gregory: Wicked 3: A Lion Among Men
- Marx, Karl: The Communist Manifesto
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 01: Dragonsdawn
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 02: The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 03: Dragonseye
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 04: Dragon’s Kin
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 05: Dragonsblood (actually written by only Todd McCaffrey)
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 06: Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 07: Nerilka’s Story
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 08: Dragonflight
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 09: Dragonsong
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 10: Dragonquest
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 11: Dragonsinger
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 12: The White Dragon
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 13: Dragondrums
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 14: Masterharper of Pern
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 15: Renegades of Pern
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 16: The Girl Who Heard Dragons (short story)
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 17: All the Weyrs of Pern
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 18: The Dolphins of Pern
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 19: The Skies of Pern
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern 20: A Gift of Dragons
- Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
- Milne, A.A.: Winnie-the-Pooh
- Milton, John: Paradise Lost
- Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
- Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables
- Moore, Alan: Watchmen
- Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
- Niffenegger, Audrey: The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Orwell, George: 1984
- Orwell, George: Animal Farm
- Parnell, Peter and Justin Richardson: And Tango Makes Three
- Peck, Robert Newton: A Day No Pigs Would Die
- Piccoult, Jodi: My Sister’s Keeper
- Poe, Edgar Allan: Complete Poems
- Poe, Edgar Allan: Complete Tales
- Pullman, Philip: His Dark Materials 1: The Golden Compass
- Pullman, Philip: His Dark Materials 2: The Subtle Knife
- Pullman, Philip: His Dark Materials 3: The Amber Spyglass
- Rand, Ayn: Anthem
- Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front
- Rice, Anne: The Lives of the Mayfair Witches 1: The Witching Hour
- Rice, Anne: The Lives of the Mayfair Witches 2: Lasher
- Rice, Anne: The Lives of the Mayfair Witches 3: Taltos
- Rice, Anne: The Vampire Chronicles 01: Interview with a Vampire
- Rice, Anne: The Vampire Chronicles 02: The Vampire Lestat
- Rice, Anne: The Vampire Chronicles 03: Queen of the Damned
- Rice, Anne: The Vampire Chronicles 04: The Tale of the Body Thief
- Rice, Anne: The Vampire Chronicles 05: Memnoch the Devil
- Rice, Anne: The Vampire Chronicles 06: The Vampire Armand
- Rice, Anne: The Vampire Chronicles 07: Merrick
- Rice, Anne: The Vampire Chronicles 08: Blood and Gold
- Rice, Anne: The Vampire Chronicles 09: Blackwood Farm
- Rice, Anne: The Vampire Chronicles 10: Blood Canticle
- Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
- Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye
- Shakespeare: A Lover’s Complaint
- Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Shakespeare: All’s Well That Ends Well
- Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra
- Shakespeare: As You Like It
- Shakespeare: Coriolanus
- Shakespeare: Cymbeline
- Shakespeare: Funeral Elegy by W.S.
- Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part 1
- Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part 2
- Shakespeare: Henry V
- Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 1
- Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 2
- Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 3
- Shakespeare: Henry VIII
- Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
- Shakespeare: King John
- Shakespeare: King Lear
- Shakespeare: Love’s Labours Lost
- Shakespeare: Macbeth
- Shakespeare: Measure for Measure
- Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
- Shakespeare: Othello
- Shakespeare: Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- Shakespeare: Richard II
- Shakespeare: Richard III
- Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew
- Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors
- Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
- Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Shakespeare: The Rape of Lucrece
- Shakespeare: The Sonnets
- Shakespeare: The Tempest
- Shakespeare: Timon of Athens
- Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus
- Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida
- Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
- Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis
- Shakespeare: Winter’s Tale
- Shan, Darren: Cirque Du Freak 01: A Living Nightmare
- Shan, Darren: Cirque Du Freak 02: The Vampire’s Assistant
- Shan, Darren: Cirque Du Freak 03: Tunnels of Blood
- Shan, Darren: Cirque Du Freak 04: Vampire Mountain
- Shan, Darren: Cirque Du Freak 05: Trials of Death
- Shan, Darren: Cirque Du Freak 06: The Vampire Prince
- Shan, Darren: Cirque Du Freak 07: Hunters of the Dusk
- Shan, Darren: Cirque Du Freak 08: Allies of the Night
- Shan, Darren: Cirque Du Freak 09: Killers of the Dawn
- Shan, Darren: Cirque Du Freak 10: The Lake of Souls
- Shan, Darren: Cirque Du Freak 11: Lord of the Shadows
- Shan, Darren: Cirque Du Freak 12: Sons of Destiny
- Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
- Shikibu, Murasaki: The Tales of Genji
- Shute, Nevil: A Town Like Alice
- Silverstein, Shel: The Giving Tree
- Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
- Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men
- Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
- Steinbeck, John: The Pearl
- Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Stevenson, Robert Louis: Kidnapped
- Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
- Stiefvater, Maggie: Shiver
- Stoker, Bram: Dracula
- Suskind, Patrick: Perfume
- Swift, Jonathon: Gulliver’s Travels
- Tendo, Shoko: Yakuza Moon
- Thackery, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
- Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Hobbit
- Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Lord of the Rings 1: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers
- Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King
- Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
- Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
- Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Twain, Mark: The Prince and the Pauper
- Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five
- Vronsky, Peter: Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
- Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
- Warren, Robert Penn: All the King’s Men
- Wells, H.G.: The Invisible Man
- Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence
- Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass
- Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wolfe, Gene: Shadow of the Torturer
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