Love + Literature

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

2. Inferno by Dante

3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

5. “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville

6. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

7. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

8. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

9. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

11. “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell

12. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

13. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

14. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

15. The Remains of the Day by Kashi Ishiguro

16. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

17. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

18. Paradise Lost by John Milton

19. The Odyssey by Homer

20. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

21. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

22. The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenger

23. The BFG by Roald Dahl 

24. The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo

25. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

26. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

27. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

28. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

29. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

30. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

31. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

32. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

33. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

34. The Little Prince by Antione de Saint-Exupery

35. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

36. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke

37. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

38. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

39. “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell

40. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Barnes

41. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

42. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

43. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel

44. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

45. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

46. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

47. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift

48. Call of the Wild by Jack London

49. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

50. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

51. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

52. The Giver by Lois Lowry

53. Sackett by Louis L’amore

54. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

55. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

56. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

57. Mein Kompf by Hitler

58. The Shining by Steven King

59. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

60. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

61. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

62. The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Wan Booy

63. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

64. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

65. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

66. Beloved by Tony Morrison

67. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

68. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

69. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

70. “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe

71. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

72. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

73. Les Miserable by Victor Hugo

74. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

75. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

76. Night by Elie Wiesel

77. Persepolis: The Story of Childhood by Marjane Satarapi

78. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

79. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

80. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

81. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

82. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

83. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

84. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham

85. Heidi by Johanna Spyri

86. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

87. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

88. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson

89. “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats

90. “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman

91. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

92. Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

93. “The Swimmer” by John Cheever

94. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

95. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

96. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

97. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

98. Charlotte’s Webb by E.B. White

99. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

100. Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle