I don’t know many of these books, but sometimes you just need an ugly cry. YA is a good genre to use to attempt that level of crying.
Category: book lists
20 Best Books
According to the above article, these are the twenty best books of all time. I have read many of them, and I pretty much agree on the ones that I have read. It’s a pretty good list.
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Books to Read in One Sitting
I have a few of these books on my TBR list. According to the article, I should be able to read a book in one sitting. They don’t seem to take into account the size of my bladder or other distractions. I guess I could give some of them a shot, though.
Tiny Imperfections Alli Frank and Asha Youmans
Pizza Girl Jean Kyoung Frazier
If I Had Your Face Frances Cha
The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi
The Jane Austen Society Natalie Jenner
40 books
I’ve read a lot of these books mentioned in the above linked article. Some are on the TBR list, and a few I haven’t heard of. I may be working on some of them soon. I hope the library opens for checkouts soon.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾, Sue Townsend
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
1984, George Orwell
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Code of the Woosters, PG Wodehouse
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K Dick
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Trial, Franz Kafka
The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
45 Best Books
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 by Elena 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
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Black Lives Matter Books
I haven’t read most of these books, but they are on my TBR list. I do hope to get to them soon.
All American Boys
by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Another Day in the Death of America
by Gary Younge
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Citizen
by Claudia Rankine
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
The Fire This Time
by Jesmyn Ward
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
by Angela Y. Davis
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
President Obama Dreams From My Father.
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
by Mychal Denzel Smith
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
March, Book One
by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Men We Reaped
by Jesmyn Ward
Middle Passage
by Charles Johnson
The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander
Nobody
by Marc Lamont Hill
Pushout
by Monique W. Morris
The Residue Years
by Mitchell S. Jackson
They Can’t Kill Us All
by Wesley Lowery
This Side of Home
by Renee Watson
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
by Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
We Love You, Charlie Freeman
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
White Rage
by Carol Anderson
You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain
by Phoebe Robinson
Better Than the Book
I agree that a few of these are definitely better than the book. The Notebook was well done as a movie. Shawshank Redemption is one of my favorite movies. The Princess Bride doesn’t show up on the list, but I couldn’t even finish the book, but I have the movie memorized. Holes followed the book almost to the letter. All of these that I’ve seen are excellent movies. I will put the others on my to watch list.
For the record, Fifty Shades of Grey was so poorly written, they couldn’t have done worse with a movie. Yes, I am biased.
1. Jaws (1975)
2. Jojo Rabbit (2019)
3. The Notebook (2004)
4. Shawshank Redemption (1994)
5. The Godfather (1972)
6. Big Fish (2003)
7. Arrival (2016)
8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
9. Children of Men (2006)
10. Shrek (2001)
11. Fight Club (1999)
12. Holes (2003)
13. Blade Runner (1982)
14. Matilda (1996)
15. Jurassic Park (1993)
16. American Psycho (2000)
17. And finally, Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Completed YA Fantasy Series
Here is a list from the above linked article that consists of Fantasy Series that have already been completed. You won’t be wasting your time waiting for the next book in the series to come out. Enjoy!
20 COMPLETED YA FANTASY SERIES TO REVISIT OR PICK UP FOR THE FIRST TIME
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#1. FOLK OF THE AIR TRILOGY BY HOLLY BLACK
1. The Cruel Prince
2. The Wicked King
3. The Queen of Nothing
#2. THE YOUNG ELITES TRILOGY BY MARIE LU
1. The Young Elites
2. The Rose Society
3. The Midnight Star
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#3. RED WINTER TRILOGY BY ANNETTE MARIE
1. Red Winter
2. Dark Tempest
3. Immortal Fire
#4. MEDAIR DUOLOGY BY ANDREA K. HÖST
1. The Silence of Medair
2. Voice of the Lost
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#5. SIX OF CROWS DUOLOGY BY LEIGH BARDUGO
1. Six of Crows
2. Crooked Kingdom
#6. THE ABHORSEN TRILOGY BY GARTH NIX
1. Sabriel
2. Lirael
3. Abhorsen
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#7. THE PENRYN & THE END OF DAYS TRILOGY BY SUSAN EE
1. Angelfall
2. World After
3. End of Days
#8. SHADOW OF THE FOX TRILOGY BY JULIE KAGAWA
1. Shadow of the Fox
2. Soul of the Sword
3. Night of the Dragon
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#9. THE BRILLIANT DEATH DUOLOGY BY AMY ROSE CAPETTA
1. The Brilliant Death
2. The Storm of Life
#10. WINTERNIGHT TRILOGY BY KATHERINE ARDEN
1. The Bear and the Nightingale
2. The Girl in the Tower
3. The Winter of the Witch
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#11. CHRONICLES OF IXIA HEXALOGY BY MARIA V. SNYDER
1. Poison Study
2. Magic Study
3. Fire Study
4. Shadow Study
5. Night Study
6. Dawn Study
#12. CROWN & COURT DUET BY SHERWOOD SMITH
1. Crown Duel
2. Court Duel
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#13. TALES OF BEAUTY AND MADNESS TRILOGY BY LILI ST. CROW
1. Nameless
2. Wayfarer
3. Kin
#14. THE ORPHAN’S TALES DUOLOGY BY CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
1. In the Night Garden
2. In the Cities of Coin and Spice
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#15. THE FORBIDDEN WISH DUOLOGY BY JESSICA KHOURY
0.5. The Jinni
1. The Forbidden Wish
#16. HIS FAIR ASSASSIN TRILOGY BY ROBIN LAFEVERS
1. Grave Mercy
2. Dark Triumph
3. Mortal Heart
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#17. GRACELING REALM TRILOGY BY KRISTIN CASHORE
1. Graceling
2. Fire
3. Bitterblue
#18. HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY BY PHILIP PULLMAN
1. Northern Lights (The Golden Compass)
2. The Subtle Knife
3. The Amber Spyglass
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#19. TAMÍR TRIAD BY LYNN FLEWELLING
1. The Bone Doll’s Twin
2. Hidden Warrior
3. The Oracle’s Queen
In Skala warfare is a womanly thing.
#20. WE SET THE DARK ON FIRE DUOLOGY BY TEHLOR KAY MEJIA
1. We Set the Dark on Fire
2. We Unleash the Merciless Storm
Books You Should Read in Your Lifetime
Books you should read in your lifetime
A lot of these are on my TBR list. A lot of them I have finished or at least started. Some, I am just wishing to read. All of them have great reviews. I look forward to attempting to finish this list.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1984 by George Orwell
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Beloved by Toni Morrison
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
Tuesday with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
YA Anti-racist Books
I have read some of these books and I have wanted to read some of them for a while. Each of the books on the list has given me something to think about. I hope to have the same reaction from those that I will be reading soon.
Just Mercy (Adapted For Young Adults) by Bryan Stevenson
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
Black Card by Chris L. Terry
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
This Is My America by Kim Johnson
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
This Side of Home by Renée Watson
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
