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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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