Here is my To-Read list. Proof that I am not as well-read as I would have you believe. There's something close to 300 here and I'm slowly whittling them down while simultaneously adding more. But these are the books I have been told to read, that I feel like I have to read, or that I have decided I should read. And that means you should too.
Hence the list.
When Will There Be Good News? – Kate Atkinson
Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi
Sweet Hereafter – Russell Banks
Genesis – Bernard Beckett
Souls Raised from the Dead – Doris Betts
Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Those Who Save Us – Jenna Blum
Skeletons at the Feast – Chris Bohjalian
Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte
Evelina – Frances Burney
Possession – A. S. Byatt
The Distant Land of My Father – Bo Caldwell
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
Empty World – John Christopher
The Hammer of God – Arthur C. Clarke
King Rat – James Clavell
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
What Girls Learn – Karin Cook
Finding Emilie – Laurel Corona
The Meaning of Night – Michael Cox
The Red Badge of Courage -- Stephen Crane
Everything Matters – Ron Currie, jr.
Robinson Crusoe -- Daniel Defore
For the King – Catherine Delors
Mistress of the Revolution – Catherine Delors
A Knight in Shining Armor – Jude Deveraux
The Stolen Child -- Keith Donohue
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
The Three Musketeers -- Alexadre Dumas
Middlemarch – George Elliot
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
To Be Queen – Christy English
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Unnamed – Joshua Ferris
Time and Again – Jack Finney
White Oleander – Janet Fitch
Tender is the Night -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Me and Emma – Elizabeth Flock
The Botticelli Secret – Marina Florato
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Foilett
World Without End – Ken Foilett
One Second After - William R. Forstchen
A Room With a View -- E. M. Forster
Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest J. Gaines
The Perfect Husband -- Lisa Gardner
The Red Necklace – Sally Gardner
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
The American Heiress -- Daisy Goodwin
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
We Had it So Good – Linda Grant
The Firm – John Grisham
A Time to Kill – John Grisham
Marley & Me – John Grogan
Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
North River - Pete Hamill
A Map of the World -- Jane Hamilton
Far from the Maddening Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Harpman
The Observations – Jane Harris
The Ghost Writer – Robert Harris
The House of Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch 22 -- Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms -- Ernest Hemmingway
Hiroshima – John Hersey
Cotillion – Georgette Heyer
The Grand Sophy – Georgette Heyer
The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton
22 Brittania Road – Amanda Hodgkinson
Fallen Grace – Mary Hooper
The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Ambassadors -- Henry James
The Bostonians – Heny James
Portrait of a Lady -- Henry James
The Journeyer – Gary Jennings
The Diplomat's Wife – Pam Jenoff
The Kommandant's Girl – Pam Jenoff
Alice, I think – Susan Juby
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Ken Kesey
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
Like Dandelion Dust – Karen Kingsbury
Odd Thomas – Dean Koontz
One Hundred Times To China – Lloyd Kropp
Romantic Fiction – Melanie La’Brooy
Phoenix and Ashes – Mercedes Lacke
Sons and Lovers -- D.H. Lawrence
The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
The Second Duchess – Elizabeth Loupas
Where the River Ends – Charles Martin
The Chronicles of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Marquez
Four Feathers -- A. E. W. Mason
The Razors Edge – W. Somerset Maugham
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Eternity Road – Jack McDevitt
The Hero and the Crown – Robin McKinley
Island of Lost Girls – Jennifer Mcmahon
Terms of Endearment – Larry McMurty
Almost Heaven – Judith McNaught
The Bad Queen – Carolyn Meyer
Betrayal – Mayandree Michel
A Fine Balance – Rohiton Mistry
Gone With the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell
The Heretic Queen – Michelle Moran
A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore
The Last Anniversary – Liane Moriarty
The Year of Secret Assignments – Jaclyn Moriarty
Beloved -- Toni Morrison
The House at Riverton – Kate Morton
The Last Town on Earth – Thomas Mullen
The True Story of Hansal and Gretel – Louise Murphey
Abundance – Sena Jeter Naslund
Suite Francais – Irene Nemirovsky
One Day – David Nicholls
Z for Zachariah – Robert O’Brian
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
The Invisible Bridge – Julie Orringer
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
Cry, the Beloved Country -- Alan Paton
A Child Called It -- Dave Pelzer
The Devlin Diary – Christi Phillips
The Mushroom Man – Sophie Powell
Love, Meg -- Leigh Purtill
Redeeming Love – Francine Rivers
Sarah's Key – Tatiana de Rosnay
The Year of the Fog – Michelle Richmond
The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Sallinger
Blindness - Jose Saramengo
The Day Before – Lisa Schroeder
Drowning Ruth – Christina Schwarz
Love Story – Erich Segal
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
Katherina – Anya Seton
The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
The Last Time I Saw Paris – Lynn Sheene
We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
A Town Like Alice -- Nevil Shute
Self Incrimination – Randy Singer
Queen by Right – Anne Easter Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
Earth Abides – George R. Stewart
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
Eminent Victorians -- Lytton Strachey
The Magnificent Ambersons -- Booth Tarkington
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Restoration – Rose Tremain
These is My Words – Nancy Turner
Mila 18 – Leon Uris
Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
All the King's Men – Robert Penn Warren
Before I Go to Sleep – S. J. Watson
Brideshead Revisted – Evelyn Waugh
The War of the Worlds -- H. G. Wells
The Rules of Survival – Nancy Werlin
The Buccaneers – Edith Wharton
The Custom of the Country – Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Night – Elie Wiesel
Such a Pretty Girl – Laura Wiess
The War of the Flowers – Tad Williams
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang – Kate Wilhelm
Forever Amber – Kathleen Winsor
To the Lighthouse -- Virginia Woolf
Letters for Emily – Camron Wright
The Replacement – Brenna Yovanoff
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Germinal – Emile Zola
YOUNG ADULT
Ship Breaker – Paulo Bacigalupi
Dear Zoe – Philip Beard
Matched – Ally Condie
The Girl She Used to Be – Dave Cristofano
Deadline – Christ Crutcher
Mistwood – Leah Cypess
Wither – Lauren DeStefano
Revolution – Jennifer Donnelly
A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelly
Before I Die – Jenny Downham
The Pale Assassin – Patricia Elliot
Incarceron – Catherine Fisher
A Kiss in Time – Alex Flinn
If I Stay – Gayle Forman
Princess of Glass – Jessica Day George
Desire – Kailin Gow
The Line – Teri Hall
Tris & Izzie – Mette Ivie Harrison
A Countess Below Stairs – Eva Ibbotson
The Morning Gift – Eva Ibbotson
Awaken – Katie Kacvinsky
Hold Still – Nina LaCour
Love, Aubrey – Suzanne LaFleur
Just Jane – William Lavender
A Summer to Die – Lois Lowry
The Declaration – Gemma Malley
Wicked Lovely – Melissa Mar
Don't Die, My Love – Lurlene McDaniel
Beauty -- Robin McKinley
The Vespertine – Saundra Mitchell
Ashfall – Mike Mullen
The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness
Academy 7 – Anne Osterlund
Girl, Stolen – Christy Ottaviano
Forgotten – Cat Patrick
Life As We Knew It – Susan Beth Pfeffer
My Sister's Keeper -- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult
Perfect Match – Jodi Picoult
How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff
Living Dead Girl – Elizabeth Scott
The Lovely Bones – Alice Seabold
General Winston's Daughter – Sharon Shinn
The Story of Beautiful Girl – Rachel Simon
Poison Study – Maria Snyder
Milkweed – Jerry Spinelli
Spilling Clarence -- Anne Ursa
Listen – Kate Veitch
Such a Pretty Girl – Laura Weiss
The Princess – Lori Wick
