Up to Snuff #78: General Classics Book List
By, Afua Serwah Osei-Bonsu
The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
1984, George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Of Mice & Men, John Steinbeck
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Stranger, Albert Camus
The Old Man & The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
Jaluladdin, Raffi Beyou Miloyan
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
War & Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Kite Runner, Khalid Hosseini
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marques
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khalid Hosseini
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
The Illiad, Homer
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Ulysses, James Joyce
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
A Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dracula, Braun Stoker
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Crime & Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Slaughter House Five, Kurt Vonnegut
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
A Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Alices Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
Emma, Jane Austen
For When the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Middle March, George Eliot
The Odyssey, Homer
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust
The Stranger, Albert Camus
The Trial, Franz Kafka
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
The Stand, Stephen King
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
Sophie’s Choice, William Styrn
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Secret Life of Bee’s, Sue Monk Kidd
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Flowers of Algernon, Daniel Keyes
The Republic, Plato
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Tess of the Durbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
The Thornbirds, Colleen McCullough
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafun
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
Vanity Fair, William Makepearce Thackray
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Master of Margarita, Mikhail Bulgkov
Quran
Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathon Swift
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Reaching Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nahsi
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Faust, Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Don Juan, Lord Byron
House of Spirits, Isabel Allende
Arabian Nights, anonymous
Rebecca, Daphne Dumaurier
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers
The Wasteland, T.S. Eliot
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Vernes
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
Finnigan’s Wake, James Joyce
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
Othello, William Shakespeare
Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Factotum, Charles Bukowski
The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams Bianco
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Metamorphoses, Ovid
Orlando, Virginia Woolf
The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Becket
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Red & The Black, Stendahl
Ethics, Baruch Spinoza
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Lost Illusions, Honore de Balzac
Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
Candide, Voltaire
The Tell Tale Heart & Other Writings, Edgar Allan Poe
The Story of My Life, Helen Keller
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The World According to Garp, John Irving
Botanical Shakespeare, Gerit Quealy
The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Orientalism, Edward W. Said
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
The Second World War, Winston S. Churchill
Aeneid, Virgil
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Silverstein
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Aleph and Other Stories, Jorge Luis Borges
The Waves, Virginia Woolf
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy