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Reading List

This is a list of all of the books that I have either already read or want to read. As you'll see, I have a pretty wide taste in literature - classics, romance, YA fiction... I like it all! Once I finish reading a book, I will post the link where you can read the review I write about it! If you think I should add any books to this list, please let me know in the comments! 😊

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

1984 by George Orwell

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Mind Invaders by Dave Hunt

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Le Fantome de l'Opera by Gaston Leroux

Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira

Every Day by David Levithan

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

Bright Side by Kim Holden

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

Game of Thrones (Series) by George R.R. Martin

To All The Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

Divergent (Series) by Veronica Roth

Twilight (Series) by Stephanie Meyer

50 Shades of Grey (Series) by E.L. James

Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling

Wanted (Series) by Kelly Elliott

The Maze Runner (Series) by James Dashner

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