– [ ] Of mice and men
– [ ] The great gatsby
– [ ] The idiot
– [ ] Meditations
– [ ] Brothers Karamazov
– [ ] The myth of sisyphus
– [ ] The odyssey
– [ ] Hamlet
– [ ] The catcher and the rye
– [ ] Catch 22
– [ ] beyond good and evil
– [ ] King leer
– [ ] A clock work orange
– [ ] No longer human
– [ ] Metamorphosis
– [ ] Moby dick
– [ ] To kill a mocking bird
– [ ] 100 years of solitude
– [ ] Lolita
– [ ] The grapes of wrath
– [ ] The strangers
– [ ] Frankenstein
– [ ] The sun also rises
– [ ] The dairy of Anne frank
– [ ] The old man and the sea
– [ ] The picture of Dorian gray
– [ ] The book of negros
– [ ] Things fall apart
– [ ] The art of war
– [ ] The communist manifesto
– [ ] Industrial society and its future (unibombers manifesto )
– [ ] Mein kampf
– [ ] The laws of human nature
– [ ] Dante’s inferno (the Devine comedy)
– [ ] War in peace
– [ ] In search of lost time
– [ ] The second sex
– [ ] As I lay dying
– [ ] Alice and wonderland
– [ ] The sound of furry
– [ ] Thirteen reasons why
– [ ] Les miserables
– [x] Crime and punishment
– [x] The little prince
– [x] Romeo and Juliet
– [x] The outsiders
– [x] Great expectations
– [x] Lord of the flies
– [x] The anarchist cook book
– [x] Pride and prejudice
– [x] Animal farm
– [x] Oliver Twist
– [x] A handmaiden tail
– [x] The epic or Gilgamesh
– [x] 1984
– [x] Don Quixote
– [x] Fahrenheit, 451
– [x] The time travellers wife
– [x] The perks of being a wallflower
For some context about me, my mom got me into reading helping me buy or borrow books from my local library. When I buy books I buy from used book story anyways! I like philosophy and classic books but I’m just looking for what you all think are the greatest books of all time?
by Psyduck-on-reddit
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Sophie’s World [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=b1KyzdHN4s&rank=1](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=b1KyzdHN4s&rank=1)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith!
Just kids by Patti smith
Slaughterhouse-five- Vonnegut
Wuthering Heights, House of Leaves and also Spook by Mary Roach. Spook is nonfiction but it is a great read, excellent think piece plus she’s funny. House of Leaves was one of the most fucked up books I’ve read. It’s a bit, but put it on the list.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I enjoy classical books too, but they exclude large groups of different types of people and experiences so I hope you’ll consider some of my picks
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Silence That Binds Us by Joanna Ho
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
The Field Guide To The North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
Like A Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
The Sign For Home by Blair Fell
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Giver by Lois Lowry
On The Subject Of Unmentionable Things by Julia Walton
and 1 of my favorite classics… The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (P&P is my favourite Austen novel but I think NA is more accessible for a young person)
Beloved by Toni Morrison
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
Dead Souls by Gogol
Lost Illusions by Balzac
Journey through the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Post Office by Bukowski
A hero of our time by Lermontov
The sailor who fail from grace with the sea by Mishima
The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave by Chateaubriand
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
A scanner darkly by Philip K. Dick
The cancer ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The first circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
The Golden Lotus by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
Dream of the red chamber by Cao Xueqin
This is a good list. I’d read and cross off maybe z10 of these titles before you add to the list. The possible titles are endless in number, so see how your thinking changes after you’ve read some of these.
Also I think “The Sound of Furry” should be “The Sound and the Fury.”