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His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman

-1984 by George Orwell-
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
-The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger-
-Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen-
-To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee-
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov-
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley-
-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte-
Ulysses by James Joyce
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
-Les Miserables by Victor Hugo-
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
-The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck-
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
-Life of Pi by Yann Martel-
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury-
-Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden-
-Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut-
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini-
The Stand by Stephen King
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
-Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad-
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
-Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling-
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Trial by Franz Kafka
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon-
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-The Stranger by Albert Camus-
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LeRoux
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Light in August by William Faulkner
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Call of the Wild by Jack London
-Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides-
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

I’m currently reading His Dark Materials, the first book of which is The Golden Compass, which was awesome!

Well, I’m not starting from scratch—I’ve already read 19 of the books! These are the books on the list that I have already read (but I probably should reread them at some point in time):

1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides