Many of these are classics all will recognize, while others were recommended to me based on my own personal interests. Most I feel are critical reading as they are the root of countless literary allusions or are necessary to help understand the world we live in. And some, well, I've just always wanted to read.
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The - Mark Twain
- Adventures of Robin Hood, The
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The - Mark Twain
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Arabian Nights, The
- Art of War, The - Sun Tzu
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Autobiography of Malcom X, The - Malcolm X/Alex Haley
- Bell Jar, The - Sylvia Plath
- Billy Budd - Herman Melville
- Birth of Tragedy, The - Friedrich Nietzche
- Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Brief History of Time, A - Stephen Hawking
- Brothers Karamazov, The - Fedor Dostoyevsky
- Call of the Wild, The - Jack London
- Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
- Captain Courageous - Ruyard Kipling
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- Catcher in the Rye, The - J. D. Salinger
- Complete Essays of Montaigne, The - Michel De Montaigne
- Conquest of Happiness, The - Bertrand Russell
- Conversations With God - Neale Walsch
- Count of Monte Cristo, The - Alexandre Dumas
- Crime and Punishment - Fedor Dostoyevsky
- Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
- Das Kapital - Karl Marx
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
- Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Don Quixote - Cervantes
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Fall of the House of Usher, The - Edgar Allan Poe
- Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- Farewell to Arms, A - Ernest Hemingway
- Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Grapes of Wrath, The - John Steinbeck
- Great Gatsby, The - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
- Heart of Darkness - Jospeh Conrad
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The - Douglas Adams
- Bible (Old + New Testaments)
- House of the Seven Gables, The - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- Innumeracy - John Allen Paulos
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- Iliad, The - Homer
- Inferno, The - Alighieri Dante
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Jungle, The - Upton Sinclair
- King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
- King Solomon's Mines - Sir H. Rider Haggard
- Koran
- Last of the Mohicans, The - James Fenimore Cooper
- Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The - Washington Irving
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Lord of the Flies - William Gerald Golding
- Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes
- Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
- Metamagical Themas - Douglas Hofstadter
- Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
- Nostromo - Jospeh Conrad
- Odyssey, The - Homer
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Old Man and the Sea, The - Ernest Hemingway
- On War - Carl Von Clausewitz
- Origin of Species, The - Charles Darwin
- Picture of Dorian Gray, The - Oscar Wilde
- Politics of Glory, The - Bill James
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A - James Joyce
- Prince, The - Niccolo Machiavelli
- Republic, The - Plato
- Robinson Carusoe - Daniel Defoe
- Satanic Verses, The - Salman Rushdie
- Scarlet Letter, The - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The - T. E. Lawrence
- Selfish Gene, The - Richard Dawkins
- Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of (Complete Works) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Speeches and Letters - Abraham Lincoln
- Summa Theologica - Thomas Aquinas
- Tale of Genji, The - Murasaki Shikibu
- Tale of Two Cities, A - Charles Dickens
- Three Kingdoms, The - Luo Guanzhong
- Turn of the Screw, The - Henry James
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- Walden II - B.F. Skinner
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- War With Hannibal, The - Titus Livy
- Wealth of Nations, The - Adam Smith
- William Shakespeare (Complete Works) - William Shakespeare
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pursig
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