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In my quest to not be the most under-read English major undergrad in my department i have compiled a list of books to read from official lists (such as BBCs Big Read) as well as recommendations from fellow readers and my own choices (which hopefully won’t differ too much from the other selections). I’ll keep adding to this list as I continue getting more books from my various other lists. Enjoy!

  1. 1.
    The White Tiger: A Novel
    by Aravind Adiga
  2. 2.
    The Namesake: A Novel
    by Jhumpa Lahiri
  3. 3.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  4. 4.
    BELL JAR
    by SYLVIA PLATH
  5. 5.
    House of Leaves
    by Mark Z. Danielewski
  6. 6.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Eleanor Atwood
  7. 7.
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    by Junot Diaz
  8. 8.
    Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  9. 9.
    Pride and Prejudice (Arcturus Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  10. 11.
    Persuasion
    by Jane Austen
  12. 13.
    1969. Slaughterhouse-Five. The Children's Crusade.
    by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut
  13. 14.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  15. 16.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden
  16. 17.
    The Woman in White (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins
  17. 18.
    Love in the Time of Cholera [LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA]
    by Gabriel(Author) ; Grossman, Edith(Translator) Garcia Marquez
  18. 19.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  19. 20.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie
  20. 21.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  21. 22.
    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel
  22. 23.
    Middlesex

  23. 24.
    The Lovely Bones
    by Alice Sebold
  24. 25.
    The Kite Runner [KITE RUNNER]
    by Khaled(Author) Hosseini
  25. 26.
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    by Khaled Hosseini
  26. 27.
    A Passage To India
    by E. M. Forster
  27. 28.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger
  28. 29.
    Perfume (MTI)
    by Patrick Suskind
  29. 30.
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
  30. 31.
    Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  31. 32.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  32. 33.
    The God of Small Things: A Novel
    by Arundhati Roy
  33. 34.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon
  34. 35.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Malcolm Lowry
  35. 36.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner
  36. 37.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright
  37. 38.
    Nostromo (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  38. 39.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro
  40. 41.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
    by Barbara Kingsolver
  41. 42.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy
  43. 44.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  44. 45.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving
  45. 46.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  46. 47.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  47. 48.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four

  48. 49.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  49. 50.
    Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  50. 51.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  52. 53.
    Cold Comfort Farm (Abridged Edition)
    by Stella Gibbons
  53. 54.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon
  54. 55.
    Interpreter of Maladies
    by Jhumpa Lahiri
  55. 56.
    Unaccustomed Earth
    by Jhumpa Lahiri
  56. 57.
    The Gathering (Man Booker Prize)
    by Anne Enright
  57. 58.
    Suite Francaise
    by Irene Nemirovsky
  58. 59.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  59. 60.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Muriel Spark
  60. 61.
    Light in August (The Corrected Text)
    by William Faulkner
  61. 62.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro
  62. 63.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara
  63. 64.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder
  64. 65.
    Jude the Obscure (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy
  65. 66.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole
  66. 67.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass
  67. 68.
    Drown
    by Junot Diaz
  68. 69.
    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories
    by Yiyun Li
  69. 70.
    Naked
    by David Sedaris
  70. 71.
    Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
    by David Sedaris
  71. 72.
    Women in Love (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  72. 73.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    by D. H. Lawrence
  73. 74.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett
  74. 75.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre
  75. 76.
  76. 77.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce
  77. 78.
    Dubliners
    by James Joyce
  79. 80.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  80. 81.
    Jane Eyre (Fine Edition)
    by Charlotte Bronte
  81. 82.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  82. 83.
    Lady Audley's Secret (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  83. 84.
    Mrs. Dalloway (Wordsworth Collection)
    by Virginia Woolf
  84. 85.
    To The Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf
  85. 86.
    At Swim-Two-Birds (Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien
  86. 87.
    ?
    A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul
  87. 88.
    A Room With A View
    by E. M. Forster
  88. 89.
    Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  89. 90.
    The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Joyce Carol Oates
  90. 91.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  91. 92.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
  92. 93.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  93. 94.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Signet Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas
  94. 95.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse
  96. 97.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph, Conrad
  97. 98.
    What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
    by Raymond Carver
  98. 99.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Enriched Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  99. 100.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  100. 101.
    Shogun
    by James Clavell
  101. 102.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
    by Betty Smith
  102. 103.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor
  103. 104.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  104. 105.
    The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Gift Set
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  105. 106.
    The Silmarillion
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  106. 107.
    Tender is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  107. 108.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  110. 112.
    Man And Superman
    by George Bernard Shaw
  111. 113.
    The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel
    by Gaston Leroux
  112. 114.
    Cloud 9
    by Caryl Churchill
  113. 115.
    Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristophanes
  114. 116.
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde
  115. 117.
  116. 118.
    ?
    Things Fall Apart (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Chinua Achebe
  117. 119.
    The Country Wife (New Mermaids)
    by William Wycherley
  118. 120.
    Patriotism
    by Yukio Mishima
  119. 121.
    Sofia Petrovna (European Classics)
    by Lydia Chukovskaya
  120. 122.
    Steppenwolf: A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse
  121. 123.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller
  122. 124.
    The Prophet
    by Kahlil Gibran
  123. 125.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles
  124. 126.
    A Maggot
    by John Fowles
  125. 127.
    Dead Souls: A Novel
    by Nikolai Gogol
  126. 128.
  127. 129.
    The Alchemist
    by Paulo Coelho
  128. 130.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  129. 131.
    A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A Ghost Story of Christmas
    by Charles Dickens
  130. 132.
    The Master and Margarita [MASTER & MARGARITA]
    by Mikhail(Author) ; Pevear, Richard(Translator); Volokhonsky, Larissa(Translator) Bulgakov
  131. 133.
    The Inheritance of Loss
    by Kiran Desai
  132. 134.
    Naked Lunch
    by William S. Burroughs
  133. 135.
    Sons and Lovers (Signet Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  134. 136.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy
  135. 137.
    The Painted Bird
    by Jerzy Kosinski
  136. 138.
    Reading Lolita In Tehran - A Memoir In Books
    by Azar Nafisi
  137. 139.
    The Shadow of the Wind
    by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  138. 140.
    White Teeth: A Novel
    by Zadie Smith
  140. 142.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka
  141. 143.
  142. 144.
    The Sign of Four
    by Arthur Conan Doyle
  143. 145.
    The Kingdom of This World: A Novel
    by Alejo Carpentier
  144. 146.
    Falling Man: A Novel
    by Don DeLillo
  145. 147.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  146. 148.
    Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
    by Sebastian Faulks
  147. 149.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac
  148. 150.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  149. 151.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt
  150. 152.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  151. 153.
    Possession
    by A.S. Byatt
  152. 154.
    Captain Corelli´s Mandolin
    by Louis De Bernières
  153. 155.
    The WASP FACTORY: A NOVEL
    by Iain Banks
  154. 156.
    Olive Kitteridge
    by Elizabeth Strout
  156. 158.
    Atonement
    by Ian McEwan
  157. 159.
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    by Stieg Larsson
  158. 160.
  159. 161.
    Brida: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Paulo Coelho
  160. 162.
    ?
    A Sicilian Romance. Ann Radcliffe (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ann Ward Radcliffe
  161. 163.
    The Elementary Particles
    by Michel Houellebecq
  162. 164.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  163. 165.
    Black Water
    by Joyce Carol Oates
  164. 166.
    Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption
    by Paulo Coelho
  165. 167.
    A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Rohinton Mistry
  166. 168.
    Foe
    by J. M. Coetzee
  167. 169.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier
  168. 170.
    Stone Butch Blues: A Novel
    by Leslie Feinberg
  169. 171.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth
  170. 172.
    Beloved (Everyman's Library)
    by Toni Morrison
  171. 173.
    People of the Book
    by Geraldine Brooks
  172. 174.
    Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
    by Geraldine Brooks
  173. 175.
    The Tattooed Soldier
    by Hector Tobar
  174. 176.
    Parable of the Sower
    by Octavia E. Butler
  175. 177.
    Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm
    by David M. Masumoto
  176. 178.
    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    by Tom Stoppard
  177. 179.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  178. 180.
    Germinal (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola
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