Book Recommendations
Book Recommendations
I’ve put together a list of some of the books that I like best; however, it’s nowhere near comprehensive and I’ll be adding to it frequently, both with books that I’ve just gotten around to reading and those that are old favorites that I’ve forgotten to include here.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
Possible Side Effects by Augsten Burroughs
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic
S by Slavenka Drakulic
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Howard’s End by E. M. Forster
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
A Fine Balance by Rohington Mistry
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Portable Dorothy Parker
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Naked by David Sedaris
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley)
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
