Books I’ve Read

Biographies / Memoirs 

Classics

  • Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  • To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  • The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
  • Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
  • The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  • 1984 – George Orwell
  • Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
  • Othello – William Shakespeare
  • Of Mice and Men – John Steinback
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
  • The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
  • Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  • Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  • The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
  • A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
  • And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
  • The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
  • Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  • The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
  • Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  • Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
  • Antigone – Sophocles
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros

Contemporary Fiction

  • Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
  • 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
  • Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
  • The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
  • Little Bee – Chris Cleave
  • The Help – Kathryn Stockett
  • The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
  • Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
  • The Devil Wears Prada – Lauren Weisberger
  • The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
  • The Last Song – Nicholas Sparks
  • My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
  • Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult
  • Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
  • The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
  • Broken Harbour – Tana French
  • The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
  • And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
  • The Art of Fielding – Chad Hobach
  • State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
  • The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
  • Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
  • Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
  • Atonement – Ian McEwan
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
  • The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
  • A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz
  • The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
  • Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
  • The Thing Around Your Neck – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fantasy/Science Fiction

  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
  • Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire
  • The Gunslinger – Stephen King
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  • The Giver – Lois Lowry
  • A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
  • A Clash of Kings – George R.R. Martin
  • A Storm of Swords – George R.R. Martin

Non-fiction

  • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business – Charles Duhigg
  • Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead – Sheryl Sandberg
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
  • Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer
  • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter Most – Meg Jay
  • Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
  • A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
  • In the Garden of Beasts – Erik Larson
  • The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time – Jeffrey Sachs
  • Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty – Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
  • The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum – Temple Grandin
  • We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow You Will Be Killed with Your Families – Philip Gourevitch

Young Adult

  • Divergent – Veronica Roth
  • Insurgent – Veronica Roth
  • Allegiant – Veronica Roth
  • The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
  • Paper Towns – John Green
  • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series – Ann Brashares
  • Twilight – Stephanie Meyer
  • New Moon – Stephanie Meyer
  • Eclipse – Stephanie Meyer
  • Breaking Dawn – Stephanie Meyer
  • The Princess Diaries Series – Meg Cabot
  • Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison
  • All-American Girl – Meg Cabot
  • Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
  • The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
  • Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
  • Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
  • Eragon – Christopher Paolini
  • Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
  • Coraline – Neil Gaiman
  • Holes – Louis Sachar
  • The City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau
  • The People of Sparks – Jeanne DuPrau
  • Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
  • An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
  • Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell 

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