Fiction
Treasure Island – RL Stevenson
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo***
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky***
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky***
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky***
War and Peace –Leo Tolstoy***
Beowulf
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch – Aleksander Solzinitsyn
A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmund Rostand
Macbeth – WS***
King Lear - WS
Merchant of Venice - WS
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte***
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen***
The Outsider – Albert Camus
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling***
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – JK Rowling***
Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince – JK Rowling***
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling***
Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien***
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien***
The Silmarillion – JRR Tolkien
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas***
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaardner
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
Romeo and Juliet - WS
The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis***
Katherine – Anya Seton
The Crystal Cave – Mary Stewart***
The Hollow Hills – Mary Stewart
The Last Enchantment – Mary Stewart
Shadow of the Moon – M.M.Kaye
The Far Pavilions – M.M.Kaye
King Rat – James Clavell ***
Tai-Pan – James Clavell***
Shogun – James Clavell
Noble House – James Clavell***
Whirlwind – James Clavell
Gai-Jin – James Clavell
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman ***
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier ***
Moonfleet – J Meade Falkner
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott***
The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Illiad – Homer
The Odyssey – Homer
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell***
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Sherlock Holmes Volume II – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1984 – George Orwell***
Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus – Sophocles
Antigone – Sophocles
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Alas, Babylon – Pat Frank
The Stone Angel – Margaret Lawrence
Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
Animal Farm – George Orwell
My Name is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
The Chosen – Chaim Potok
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell***
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
The Good Earth – Pearl S Buck***
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
The Screwtape Letters – CS Lewis
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turganev
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
Bleak House – Charles Dickens***
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Kidnapped! – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Naseau – Jean-Paul Sartre
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth – Leo Tolstoy
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver***
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemmingway***
Notes From Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Blue Beard – Kurt Vonnegut
Things Fall Apart – Chinue Achebe
Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
Life of Pi – Yann Martel***
Slaughter House 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
Twelfth Night - WS
Much Ado About Nothing -WS
Measure for Measure -WS
Richard II -WS
Othello -WS
Hamlet -WS
A Winter’s Tale - WS
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez***
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez***
Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzakis
God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian – Kurt Vonnegut
Dead Eye Dick – Kurt Vonnegut
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Catcher in the Rye – SD Salinger
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway
Shame – Salman Rushdie***
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie***
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde***
Night – Elie Wiesel
The Plague – Albert Camus
Candide – Voltaire
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
Sons and Lovers – DH Lawrence
The Clouds – Aristophanes
Apology – Plato
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt***
Beloved – Toni Morrison
The Englishman’s Boy – Guy Vanderhaeghe
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – RL Stevenson
Julius Caesar -WS
Watership Down – Richard Adams***
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov
Tertulle – Moliere
A Map of the World – Jane Hamilton
Bloodletting and Other Miraculous Cures – Vincent Lam
The Scarlett Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
Peter Pan – JM Barrie
The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas
A Case of Exploding Mangoes – Mohammed Hanif
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon
Dune – Frank Herbert
Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry***
Farwell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway***
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck***
Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
Tuesday’s With Morrie – Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguru***
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Loving Frank – Nancy Horan
Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Atonement – Ian MacEwan
Collected Fictions – Jorge Louis Borges***
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller***
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov***
The Road – Cormac MacCarthy***
Girl With a Pearl Earing – Tracy Chevalier
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon***
I, Claudius – Robert Graves
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
The Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruis Zafon***
A Prayer for Own Meany – John Irving***
The Taming of the Shrew - WS
A Midsummer’s Night Dream - WS
As You Like It - WS
The Comedy of Errors - WS
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Two Gentlemen of Verona - WS
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins***
Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
Love’s Labour’s Lost – WS
The Merry Wives of Windsor – WS
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy***
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguru
Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The General in his Labyrinth - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Non-Fiction
From Beirut to Jerusalem – Thomas Friedman
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson***
1919 – Margaret MacMIllion***
Into Thin Air – Jon Krakaeur***
World History up to 1715
The Bible
The Book of Mormon
The Hot Zone – Richard Preston
Conquest – Hugh Thomas***
World War One
A Child Called “It” – Dave Pelzer
The Pianist – Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Hiding Place – Corrie ten Boom***
Not Without My Daughter – Betty Mahmoody
The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx
Mere Christianity – CS Lewis***
Public Power in the Age of Empire – Roy Arundita
Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw – Norman Davies***
Politics and Culture in the Developing World – Payne and Nassar
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex – Philip Curtin
Infidels – Andrew Wheatcroft
50 Facts That Should Change the World – Jessica Williams
The Republic – Plato
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The Life and Teachings of Wilford Woodruff
South – Ernest Shakleton ***
Absolute Power – CS Denton
The Life and Teachings of Spencer W Kimball
Aztecs: Reign of Blood and Splendor
Inside the Third Reich – Albert Speer ***
The Politics of the Middle East – Monte Palmer
Lions & Unicorns: Socialism and the English Genius – George Orwell
London 1900 – Jonathan Schneer
Al Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam – Jason Burke
A Mission to Civilize – Alice Conklin
Nazi Empire Building and the Ukrainian Holocaust – Wendy Lower
Roman Art – Ramage & Ramage
Confessions of an Economic Hit man – John Perkins
Why Globalization Works – Martin Wolf
Notes From a Small Island – Bill Bryson
Discourse on Inequality – John Jacques Rousseau
Coming Up For Air – George Orwell
The Soviet Experiment – Ronald Grigor Suny
A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada – John Raulston Saul
The Bad Popes – ER Chamberlain
Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid – Jimmy Carter
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge - Chanrithy Him
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 - Steve Coll
I don't see Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts on this list. In my opinion it would be a great addition :-).
ReplyDeleteAll the best
QC