Personal Recommendations:
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1887-1893) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Bird by Bird (1995) Anne Lamott
- The Castle in the Attic (1994) Elizabeth Winthrop
- Eat Pray Love (2006) Elizabeth Gilbert
- Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Ray Bradbury
- Frankenstein (1818) Mary Shelley
- The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Guests of the Sheik (1965) Elizabeth W. Fernea
- Harry Potter Series (1997-2007) J.K. Rowling
- His Dark Materials Trilogy (1995-2000) Philip Pullman
- The Hobbit (1937) J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Hunger Games Trilogy (2008-2010) Suzanne Collins
- Into the Land of the Unicorns (1999) Bruce Coville
- Madam Bovary (1856) Gustave Flaubert
- The Mummy Congress (2001) Heather Pringle
- My Side of the Mountain (1959) Jean Craighead George
- Myst: The Book of Atrus (1994) Robyn Miller
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) George Orwell
- Percy Jackson Series (2005-2009) Rick Riordian
- Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen
- The Sweet Potato Queen’s Book of Love (1999) Jill Conner Browne
- The Thief Lord (2002) Cornelia Funke
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) Jules Verne
- War of the Worlds (1898) H.G. Wells
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If you don’t like my list, you can try this one too: 40 Classic Books You Should Have Read in School.
Feeling up to a challenge? How many have you read in the BBC’s Top 200?
