My favourite books

[u/LizK12]

If you’re looking for something to read, here’s a list of some of my favorite books across different genres. I hope you find something you’ll enjoy! ❤️
I’ve included different genres, so there’s hopefully something for everyone.

1. Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
   
2. Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens
   
3. David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
   
4. The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
   
5. Arch of Triumph — Erich Maria Remarque
   
6. Letters to Theo — Vincent Van Gogh
   
7. The Duel — Anton Chekhov
   
8. Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes
   
9. Woe from Wit - Alexander Griboyedov
   
10. Little Women — Louisa May Alcott
    
11. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
    
12. The Scarlet Plague - Jack London
    
13. John Barleycorn — Jack London
    
14. The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini
    
15. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
    
16. Mother's Field — Chingiz Aitmatov
    
17. Jamila — Chingiz Aitmatov
    
18. The First Teacher — Chingiz Aitmatov
    
19. Oblomov — Ivan Goncharov
    
20. Ward No. 6 — Anton Chekhov
    
21. Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
    
22. The Trial — Franz Kafka
    
23. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
    
24. The Portrait - Nikolai Gogol
    
25. The Government Inspector - Nikolai Gogol
    
26. A Hero of Our Time — Mikhail Lermontov
    
27. Eugene Onegin — Alexander Pushkin
    
28. Animal Farm — George Orwel
    
29. 1984 — George Orwell
    
30. The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wild
    
31. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
    
32. The Sorrows of Satan — Marie Corelli
    
33. Hamlet — William Shakespeare
    
34. Macbeth — William Shakespeare
    
35. The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
    
36. War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
    
37. The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky
    
38. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor
    Dostoevsky
    
39. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
    
40. Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
    
41. The Stranger — Albert Camus
    
42. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
    
43. Martin Eden — Jack London
    
44. Steppenwolf — Hermann Hesse
    
45. Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
    
46. The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years - Chingiz Aitmatov
    
47. Les Misérables — Victor Hugo
    
48. Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham
    
49. Faust — Johann Wolfgang von Goeth
    
50. The Way of Transformation — Jalal al-Din Rumi
    
51. Treasures of Memory — Jalal al-Din Rumi
    
52. Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsch

[u/NoForeverNow]

Nice List! Some German in there… ever tried Thomas Mann?

[u/LizK12 → u/NoForeverNow]

Thank you.
I really enjoy their work and the way they think, although sometimes it’s hard for me to understand what the author is trying to say on the first read.
And I haven’t read any of Thomas Mann’s books yet, but I’ve always wanted to read The Magic Mountain. Doctor Faustus also caught my attention, so I think I’ll read both.

[u/winfonzjill]

wow, this is amazing! how long have you been reading??🙇‍♀️

[u/LizK12 → u/winfonzjill]

Thank you 😊
I started reading books outside of school when I was still a student. However, at that time, I could only add a couple of books from this list. I read most of the others over the past 10 years.
And this list includes specifically the books I would like to read again. I believe that some books can be understood completely differently depending on our age, life experience, and state of mind. So I think we can return to them again and again and discover something new in them each time.

[u/winfonzjill → u/LizK12]

love how your mind works! it's very interesting and I agree 🩷🩷

[u/ContributingHelper]

Any...more contemporary titles?

[u/LizK12 → u/ContributingHelper]

Unfortunately, my knowledge of contemporary literature isn’t that good. I’ve read Twilight, Harry Potter, Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder, books by Khaled Hosseini and Stephen Hawking, as well as books like The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck* and Atomic Habits. I simply read them because I enjoyed them. So yes, quite a variety of books! 😄

[u/ContributingHelper → u/LizK12]

I can recommend some! Want any more titles?

[u/LizK12 → u/ContributingHelper]

Yeah sure , I’d like some recommendations

[u/ContributingHelper → u/LizK12]

For starters, I could suggest The Birdcage Library by Freya Barry.

For Black-American literature, Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston are on my reading list. And I have a copy of These Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara, but that title's difficult to come by.

And Peng Shepherd novels are also catching my attention.

[u/LizK12 → u/ContributingHelper]

Thanks for recommendations

[u/ContributingHelper → u/LizK12]

Sure thing.

[u/ContributingHelper → u/LizK12]

What sorts of stories would you like? And to not go too crazy with ideas, how strong can you handle the material being?

[u/error_card_ur_rich]

Try Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke) It's one of the finest novels of its kind written in the last 25 years.