I have most of these books, but I haven’t read most of them. Some of them, yes, I have read them. Some of them I look forward to reading. Some will remain unread for a while.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Shining by Stephen King
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Ulysses by James Joyce
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
1984 by George Orwell
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter: The Complete Collection by J.K. Rowling
The Neapolitan Novels byElena Ferrante
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
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I read some of those books- part of which were required and part were not. Will add some.
1. Don Quixote
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Les Misérables
4. Great Gatsby
5. Lord of the Rings
6. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7. Great Expectations
8. Harry Potter Series
9. Anna Karenina (still in the middle of)
10. Nicholas Nickleby
11. Hunchback of Notre Dame
12. Oliver Twist
13. Tale of Two Cities
14. Etc- there are others
I actually find it easier to love books you choose to read unlike the required books in school
Well, that book isn’t quite as long as the longest book I ever read. I actually read the entire unabridged Les Misérables. Well, do you know what book really intimidates me: War and Peace, which I actually own
I am used to long reads: Les Mis, Nicholas Nickleby, Harry Potter Series.
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I read some of those books- part of which were required and part were not. Will add some.
1. Don Quixote
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Les Misérables
4. Great Gatsby
5. Lord of the Rings
6. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7. Great Expectations
8. Harry Potter Series
9. Anna Karenina (still in the middle of)
10. Nicholas Nickleby
11. Hunchback of Notre Dame
12. Oliver Twist
13. Tale of Two Cities
14. Etc- there are others
I actually find it easier to love books you choose to read unlike the required books in school
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A friend made Anna karenina her quarantine read. She gave up. She felt it was too long. I haven’t tried.
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Well, that book isn’t quite as long as the longest book I ever read. I actually read the entire unabridged Les Misérables. Well, do you know what book really intimidates me: War and Peace, which I actually own
I am used to long reads: Les Mis, Nicholas Nickleby, Harry Potter Series.
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I flew through the Harry Potter series. I haven’t read the others, but Les Miserables is on my TBR list.
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