Literature

The Literature Frenzy Challenge!

Welcome to my ultimate reading challenge! This will be an on-going project of mine and I hope to read everything on this list before departing from this world. I am always open for recommendations so if you want me to read something that is not already on this list, please let me know in the comments section below! Let's get this party started, shall we?

The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie (recommended by Steven)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (re-read)
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Money by Martin Amis (recommended by Matthew)
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Go Tell it to the Mountain by James Baldwin
Giovanni?s Room by James Baldwin
Another Country by James Baldwin
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Science Fiction Short Stories of J.G. Ballard
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Herzog by Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
Zuleika Dobson by Sir Max Beerbohm (recommended by Ron)
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Virtual Unrealities (short stories) by Alfred Bester
The Ninth Configuration by William Peter Blatty
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
The Souls of Black Folk by Du Bois
Dandelion Wine by Bradbury
Farenheit 451 Bradbury
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
In Cold Bloody by Truman Capote
Night at the Circus by Angela Carter
~~What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver~~
O Pioneers! By Willa Cather
My Antonia by Willa Cather
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Kiss and other Stories by Anton Chekhov
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Martian Time Slip by Philip K. Dick
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Crack in Space by PKD
Dr. Bloodmoney by PKD
Valis by PKD
The Idiot by Dostoeyevsky
Notes from the Underground by Dostoeyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Dostoeyevsky
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoeyevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Mill on the Floss by Eliot
Middlemarch by Eliot
The Merkabah Rider by Edward M. Erdelac
~~The Little Prince by Exupery~~
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner
Go Down Moses by William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald
The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney
Sentimental Education by Flaubert
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Howard?s End by E.M. Forster
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
The French Lieutenant?s Woman by John Fowles
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Tana French - Dublin Murder Squad
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Loving by Henry Green
~~The Quiet American by Graham Greene~~
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
~~The Fault in Our Stars by John Green~~
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Kampus by James Gunn
~~The Forever War by Joe Haldeman~~
Cockroach by Rawi Hage
Mortal Leap by MacDonald Harris
The Paradox Men by Charles Harness
Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D?Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Hemingway
The Liveship Traders (Trilogy) by Robin Hobb
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy) by Robin Hobb
Mythago Wood (#1) by Robert Holdstock
How to Be Good by Nick Horny
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Never Let Me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
There Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Reefs of Earth by R.A. Lafferty
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
The Lathe of Heaven by Le Guin
Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin
The Dispossessed by Le Guin
Wizard of Earthsea by Le Guin
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (recommended by Natalyia)
The Paradox Men by Charles L. Harness
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Einstein?s Dreams by Alan Lightman
Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean (recommended by Julia)
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
~~Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry~~
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Embassytown by China Mieville
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The City and the City by China Mieville
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham
Razor's Edge by Maugham
Cakes and Ale by Maugham
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
The Last Dragon by McDerrmott
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Utopia by Thomas Moore
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
One Day by Dave Nicholls (recommended by Becky)
A Good Man is Hard to Find and other Stories by Flannery O?Connor
Wise Blood by Flannery O?Connor
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Portable Dorthy Parker by DorthyParker
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
V by Thomas Pynchon
The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (recommended by Satia)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Callahan Chronicals by Spider Robinson
Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren Ross
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
Midnight?s Children by Salman Rushdie
The Sparrow by Mary Dorry Russell
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Sirius by Olaf Stapledon
Tales of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Light Years by James Salter
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (recommended by Stephen)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
~~As You like It by Shakespeare~~
~~Macbeth by Shakespeare~~
King Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare
King Henry IV, Part 2 by Shakespeare
~~Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare~~

~~Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare~~
The Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
Pygmalian: A Romance in Five Acts by Bernard Shaw
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Comforters by Muriel Spark
~~The Driver?s Seat by Muriel Spark~~
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
Not to Disturb by Muriel Spark
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
In Dubious Battle by Steinbeck
~~Pastures of Heaven by Steinbeck~~
The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover
To Marry Medusa by Theodore Sturgeon
More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
Theft of Swords by Michael Sullivan
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas/Jennifer Graham
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde (re-read)
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire by Williams
Glass Menagerie by Williams
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Savages by Don Winslow (recommended by Stephen)
Black Boy by Richard Wright
~~Native Son by Richard Wright~~
Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - An In-depth Analysis
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates
Lord of Light by Robert Zelazny
The Book Thief by Mark Zusak
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Dooryways in the Sand by Robert Zelazny

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