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Book list

I have two lists: one is Strand 80, the other is books suggest by my girlfriend

Strand 80 (bold is I’ve read)

1. To Kill a Mockingbird , Harper Lee
2. Pride and Prejudice , Jane Austen
3. Great Gatsby , Scott F. Fitzgerald
4. Catcher in the Rye , J.D. Salinger
5. Atlas Shrugged , Ayn Rand
6. Fountainhead , Ayn Rand
7. Lord of the Rings , J.R.R. Tolkien
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude , Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. Jane Eyre , Charlotte Bronte
10. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone , J.K. Rowling
11. Lolita , Vladimir Nabokov
12. 1984 , George Orwell
13. On the Road , Jack Kerouac
14. Gone with the Wind , Margaret Mitchell
15. Anna Karenina , Leo Tolstoy
16. Brothers Karamazov , Fyodor Dostoevsky
17. Crime and Punishment , Fyodor Dostoevsky
18. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , Betty Smith
19. Slaughterhouse Five , Kurt Vonnegut
20. Ulysses , James Joyce
21. Kite Runner , Khaled Hosseini
22. Catch-22 , Joseph Heller
23. Grapes of Wrath , John Steinbeck
24. East of Eden , John Steinbeck
25. Sun Also Rises , Ernest Hemingway
26. War and Peace , Leo Tolstoy
27. Hobbit , J.R.R. Tolkien
28. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , J.K. Rowling
29. Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay , Michael Chabon
30. Wuthering Heights , Emily Bronte
31. Prayer for Owen Meany , John Irving
32. Count of Monte Cristo , Alexandre Dumas
33. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass , Lewis Carroll
34. The Stranger , Albert Camus
35. Brave New World , Aldous Huxley
36. Little Women , Louisa May Alcott
37. Middlesex , Jeffrey Eugenides
38. Moby Dick , Herman Melville
39. The Alchemist , Paulo Coelho
40. Les Miserables , Victor Hugo
41. Tale of Two Cities , Charles Dickens
42. Anthem , Ayn Rand
43. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles , Haruki Murakami
44. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Mark Twain
45. In Cold Blood , Truman Capote
46. Cat’s Cradle , Kurt Vonnegut
47. Love in the Time of Cholera , Gabriel Garcia Marquez
48. The Little Prince , Antoine De Saint-Exupery
49. The Time Traveler’s Wife , Audrey Niffenegger
50. Invisible Man , Ralph Ellison
51. Unbearable Lightness of Being , Milan Kundera
52. Bell Jar , Sylvia Plath
53. World According to Garp , John Irving
54. Middlemarch , George Eliot
55. To the Lighthouse , Virginia Woolf
56. The Poisonwood Bible , Barbara Kingsolver
57. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , J.K. Rowling
58. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , J.K. Rowling
59. Old Man and the Sea , Ernest Hemingway
60. Ender’s Game , Orson Scott Card
61. Bleak House , Charles Dickens
62. Beloved , Toni Morrison
63. Great Expectations , Charles Dickens
64. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius , Dave Eggers
65. Fight Club , Chuck Palahniuk
66. Sound and the Fury , William Faulkner
67. Mrs. Dalloway ,Virginia Woolf
68. The Giver , Lois Lowry
69. The Master and Margarita , Mikhail Bulgakov
70. Blindness , Jose Saramago
71. Life of Pi , Yann Martel
72. Madam Bovary , Gustave Flaubert
73. Where the Wild Things Are , Maruice Sendak
74. Chronicles of Narnia , C.S. Lewis
75. Odyssey , Homer
76. The Da Vinci Code , Dan Brown
77. Franny and Zooey , J.D. Salinger
78. A Wrinkle in Time , Madeleine L’Engle
79. Everything is Illuminated , Jonathan Safran Foer
80. The Picture of Dorian Gray , Oscar Wilde
81. The Handmaid’s Tale , Margaret Atwood

Suggested reading list:

• The Iron Dragon’s Daughter , Michael Swanwick
• Hammered, Scardown, Worldwired, Dust , Elizabeth Bear
• Interpreter of Maladies , Jumpa Lahiri
• The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Lady Oracle , Margaret Atwood
• Memoirs of a Geisha , Arthur Golden
• Hannibal , Thomas Harris
• Typical American , Gish Jen
• Dragons of Babel , Michael Swanwick
• Wicked , Gregory MacGuire
• His Dark Materials series , Phillip Pullman
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister , Gregory MacGuire
• Jane Eyre , Charlotte Bronte
• Rebecca , Daphne du Maurier
• poems , T.S. Eliot (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and The Wasteland)
• Replay , Ken Grimwood
• Scar Night , Alan Campbell
• The Invisible Man , Ralph Ellison