Looking to fill in potential gaps in the literature I’ve read. I know that might not be a particularly worthy endeavor, but I’m interested in your suggestions.
Any criteria is okay (genre lit welcome). For reference, here’s a partial list of things I’ve already read that I expect might otherwise be recommended, by author (leaving out ancient works, religious texts, most nonfiction and most children’s/YA lit):
Adams, Douglas (most works)
Adams, Richard (Watership Down)
Alcott, Louisa May (Little Women)
Asimov, Isaac (Foundation)
Atwood, Margaret (The Handmaid’s Tale)
Austen, Jane (Pride and Prejudice)
Bradbury, Ray (many works)
Bronte, Charlotte (Jane Eyre)
Bronte, Emily (Wuthering Heights)
Burgess, Anthony (A Clockwork Orange)
Card, Orson Scott (Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead)
Capote, Truman (In Cold Blood)
Cervantes, Miguel de (Don Quixote)
Christie, Agatha (many works)
Crichton, Michael (many works)
Collins, Suzanne (The Hunger Games)
Conrad, Joseph (Heart of Darkness)
Dick, Philip K. (The Man in the High Castle)
Dickens, Charles (A Christmas Carol, Hard Times, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities)
Doctorow, E.L. (Ragtime)
Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)
Dumas, Alexandre (most works)
Ellison, Ralph (Invisible Man)
Faulkner, William (The Sound and the Fury)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (The Great Gatsby)
Gaiman, Neil (most works)
Gibson, William (Neuromancer)
Golding, William (The Lord of the Flies)
Goldman, William (The Princess Bride)
Graves, Robert (I, Claudius; Claudius the God)
Hardy, Thomas (many works)
Heinlein, Robert (many works)
Hemingway, Ernest (The Old Man and the Sea)
Herbert, Frank (Dune)
Hesse, Hermann (many works)
Hugo, Victor (most works)
Hurston, Zora Neale (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
Huxley, Aldous (Brave New World)
Joyce, James (Finnegans Wake, Ulysses)
Kesey, Ken (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
King, Stephen (most works)
Kundera, Milan (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
Larson, Erik (The Devil in the White City)
Le Guin, Ursula K. (The Left Hand of Darkness)
Lee, Harper (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Martin, George R.R. (A Song of Ice and Fire, so far…)
McCarthy, Cormac (The Road)
McMurtry, Larry (Lonesome Dove)
Melville, Herman (Moby-Dick)
Milton, John (Paradise Lost)
Mitchell, Margaret (Gone with the Wind)
Moore, Alan (Watchmen)
Murakami, Haruki (1Q84)
Nabokov, Vladimir (Lolita)
Orwell, George (1984, Animal Farm)
Plath, Sylvia (The Bell Jar)
Poe, Edgar Allen (most works)
Rand, Ayn (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead)
Remarque, Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Rowling, J.K. (Harry Potter series)
Sade, Marquis de (The 120 Days of Sodom)
Salinger, J.D. (The Catcher in the Rye)
Scott, Walter (Ivanhoe)
Shakespeare, William (most works)
Shelley, Mary (Frankenstein)
Sinclair, Upton (The Jungle)
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich)
Steinbeck, John (East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl)
Thoreau, Henry David (Walden)
Tolkien, J.R.R. (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings)
Tolstoy, Leo (War and Peace)
Toole, John Kennedy (A Confederacy of Dunces)
Twain, Mark (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court)
Voltaire (Candide)
Vonnegut, Kurt (Slaughterhouse-Five)
Wilde, Oscar (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Wright, Richard (Black Boy)
Thank you very much for your time and suggestions!
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