A Reading List of books, poems, plays, essays, and others that I highly recommend reading yourself. I will try to itemize them based on what they are classified as by others and in the professional world. I will classify novels that are YA as (YA) and Children’s novels as (C), but otherwise they will be listed under their general category.
** Indicates favorites
“Classics”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (C) **
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll (C) **
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger **
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Sula – Toni Morrison
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) – George Orwell
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
___ The Two Towers, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Return of the King
The Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkien
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Not so “Classics”
The Sun Is Also A Star – Ry Russo-Young (YA)
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
Agatha Christie mysteries in general
Carrie – Stephen King
The Shinning – Stephen King
A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest Gaines
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH – Robert C. O’Brien
The Tale of Desperaux – Kate DiCamillo (C)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Sci-Fi
Mem – Bethany C. Morrow
Praise the Orc – Lee Jungmin (Webnovel)
The Unwind Dystology – Neal Shusterman (YA) **
___ UnWind, UnWholly, UnSouled, UnDivided, UnBound (Novella)
Fantasy
His Dark Materials – Phillip Pullman **
___ Northern Lights or The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
The Seven Realms – Cinda Williams Chima (YA)
___ The Demon King, The Exiled Queen, The Gray Wolf Throne, The Crimson Crown
The Shattered Realms – Cinda Williams Chima (YA)
___ Flamecaster, Shadowcaster, Stormcaster, Deathcaster
The Night Angel Trilogy – Brent Weeks
___ The Way of Shadows, Shadow’s Edge, Beyond the Shadows, Perfect Shadow (Novella)
The Redwall Series – Brian Jacques (YA or C)
___ Redwall, Mossflower, Mattimeo, Mariel of Redwall, Salamandastron, Martin the Warrior, The Bellmaker, Outcast of Redwall, Pearls of Lutra, The Long Patrol, Marlfox, Lord Broktree, Taggerung, Triss, Loamhedge, Rakkety Tam, High Rhulain, Eulalia!, Doomwyte, The Sable Queen, The Rogue Crew
Omniscient Reader Viewpoint – SingShong (Webnovel)
Sorcery of Thorns – Margaret Rogerson
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgernstern
Poetry Collections
Women are Some Kind of Magic Series – amanda lovelace
things that h(a)unt duology – amanda lovelace
milk and honey – rupi kaur
the sun and her flowers – rupi kaur
Kill With Words – Vivid Vega
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
Singular Poems
anyone lived in a pretty how town – e.e. cumings **
Theme for English B – Langston Hughes
The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe
Plays
Oedipus Rex/Oedipus Tyrannus – Sophocles
Crumbs from the Table of Joy – Lynn Nottage
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 – Anna Deavere Smith
365 Plays/365 Days – Suzan Lori-Parks
Topdog/Underdog – Suzan Lori-Parks
The Laramie Project – Moises Kaufman
Fences – August Wilson
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Macbeth – William Shakespeare
A Doll House – Henrik Ibsen
A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
The Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
“MASTER HAROLD”… and the boys – Athol Fugard
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
Short Stories
The Color Master – Aimee Bender
The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
Hills Like White Elephants – Ernest Hemingway
Gorilla My Love – Toni Cade Bambara
It Had to Be Murder – Cornell Woolrich
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
Charles – Shirley Jackson
Essays
We Should All Be Feminists – Chimmamanda Ngozi Adichie
Citizen (An American Lyric) – Claudia Rankine
*I have a lot of feminist articles but I don’t know if I will include them or not
Marlena Marie 