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Rgilmore Readinglist

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Rgilmore Readinglist

This document lists 211 book titles. It includes classic novels, short stories, plays and non-fiction works across many genres from notable authors such as Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Orwell, and others. The works range from early literature to contemporary bestsellers.
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1984 by George Orwell

2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

5. All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

7. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

8. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

9. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

11. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

12. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

13. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as a


History by Norman Mailer

14. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

15. The Art of Living by Epictetus

16. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

17. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

18. Atonement by Ian McEwan

19. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

20. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

21. Babe by Dick King-Smith


22. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by
Susan Faludi

23. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

24. Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten

25. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

26. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

27. Beloved by Toni Morrison

28. Beowulf

29. The Bhagavad Gita 

30. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied
the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by
Peter Duffy

31. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

32. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

33. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

34. Brick Lane by Monica Ali

35. Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

36. Candide by Voltaire

37. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

38. Carrie by Stephen King

39. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

40. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

41. The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain


42. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

43. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman

44. Christine by Stephen King

45. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

46. Cinderella by Brothers Grimm

47. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

48. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

49. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

50. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

51. The Compact Oxford English Dictionary

52. The Complete Novels of Dawn Powell

53. The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton

54. The Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker

55. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

56. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

57. Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster


Wallace

58. Contact by Carl Sagan

59. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

60. Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac

61. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

62. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber


63. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

64. Cujo by Stephen King

65. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark


Haddon

66. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

67. Daisy Miller by Henry James

68. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

69. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

70. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

71. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

72. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

73. Deenie by Judy Blume

74. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

75. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the
Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

76. The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

77. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock


Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, and Nikki Sixx

78. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 

79. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

80. Don Quixote by Cervantes

81. Dracula by Bram Stoker

82. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv


83. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

84. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

85. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

86. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

87. Eloise at the Plaza by Kay Thompson

88. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

89. Emma by Jane Austen

90. Empire Falls by Richard Russo

91. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

92. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

93. Ethics by Spinoza

94. Europe through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook by
Rick Steves

95. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

96. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

97. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

98. Extravagance by Gary Krist

99. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

100. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

101. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

102. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the
World by Greg Critser

103. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson


104. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

105. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

106. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

107. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

108. Fletch by Gregory McDonald

109. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

110. Fodor’s Selected Hotels of Europe

111. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

112. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

113. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

114. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

115. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

116. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

117. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

118. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and
Wisdom of Our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

119. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

120. A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary

121. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

122. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

123. The Godfather by Mario Puzo

124. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy


125. Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Bears Should Share! by Alvin
Granowsky

126. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

127. Goodnight Spoon by Keith Richards

128. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

129. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

130. The Graduate by Charles Webb

131. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

132. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

133. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

134. The Group by Mary Mccarthy

135. Haiku, Volume 2: Spring by R.H. Blyth

136. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

137. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

138. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

139. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

140. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

141. Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw
Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson

142. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by


Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

143. Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare

144. Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare


145. Henry V by William Shakespeare

146. Henry VI by William Shakespeare

147. He’s Just Not That into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

148. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

149. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by
Edward Gibbon

150. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

151. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

152. Horton Hears A Who! by Dr. Seuss

153. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

154. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

155. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

156. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

157. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

158. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

159. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

160. I Feel Bad about My Neck by Nora Ephron

161. The Iliad by Homer

162. I’m with the Band by Pamela Des Barres

163. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

164. Indiana by George Sand

165. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri 


166. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

167. Ironweed by William J. Kennedy

168. It Takes A Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

169. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

170. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

171. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

172. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

173. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

174. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

175. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

176. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by


Anthony Bourdain

177. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

178. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence

179. The Last Empire: Essays 1992–2000 by Gore Vidal

180. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of


Glory, 1874–1932 by William Manchester

181. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume II: Alone,
1932–1940 by William Manchester

182. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume III:


Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965 by William Manchester

183. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

184. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

185. Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis


186. Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand

187. Letters of Edith Wharton by R. W. B. Lewis 

188. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

189. The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus

190. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

191. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

192. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

193. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

194. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

195. Lisa and David by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.

196. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

197. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

198. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

199. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

200. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

201. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

202. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

203. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

204. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

205. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

206. Love Story by Erich Segal

207. Macbeth by William Shakespeare


208. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

209. The Manticore by Robertson Davies

210. Marathon Man by William Goldman

211. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

212. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

213. Memoirs of A Dutiful Daughter by Simone De Beauvoir

214. The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William


Tecumseh Sherman

215. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray

216. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken

217. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

218. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

219. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

220. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

221. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

222. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

223. Misery by Stephen King

224. Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt

225. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

226. The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time by Jim
Irvin

227. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

228. Molloy by Samuel Beckett


229. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

230. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

231. A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister by


Julie Mars

232. Motley Crue by Seamus Craic

233. The Mourning Bride by William Congreve

234. A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

235. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

236. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman


Hall

237. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by


Seymour M. Hersh

238. My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken

239. My Life in Orange: Growing up with the Guru by Tim Guest

240. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe by Myra


Waldo

241. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

242. My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard

243. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

244. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

245. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

246. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

247. Nancy Drew and the Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene

248. The Nanny Diaries by Emma Mclaughlin


249. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars
Jensen

250. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

251. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

252. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara


Ehrenreich

253. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

254. Night by Elie Wiesel

255. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

256. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism edited by Jeffrey


J. Williams, et al.

257. Notes of A Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

258. Novels, 1930–1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn,


Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell

259. Oedipus Rex by Sophicles

260. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

261. Old School by Tobias Wolff

262. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

263. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr


Solzhenitsyn

264. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

265. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

266. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

267. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of A Writing Life by Amy Tan


268. Oracle Night by Paul Auster

269. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

270. Othello by William Shakespeare

271. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

272. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

273. Out of Africa by Isak Dineson

274. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

275. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

276. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald


Kagan

277. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

278. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

279. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

280. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

281. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

282. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs
McNeil and Gillian McCain

283. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

284. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

285. The Portable Nietzsche by Fredrich Nietzsche 

286. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the
Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind 

287. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen


288. Primary Colors by Joe Klein

289. Property by Valerie Martin

290. The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe

291. The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by
Nancy Mitford

292. Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon

293. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

294. Quattrocento by James Mckean

295. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

296. Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm

297. “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

298. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

299. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

300. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

301. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

302. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

303. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

304. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad by


Virginia Holman

305. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

306. Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria


Steinem

307. Richard III by William Shakespeare


308. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

309. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

310. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert

311. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

312. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

313. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

314. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

315. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

316. The Rough Guide to Europe

317. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

318. Sanctuary by William Faulkner

319. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

320. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy
Milford

321. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

322. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

323. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

324. The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir

325. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

326. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

327. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913–1965 by Dawn Powell

328. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen


329. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

330. Sexus by Henry Miller

331. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruíz Zafon

332. Shane by Jack Shaefer

333. The Shining by Stephen King

334. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

335. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

336. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

337. Small Island by Andrea Levy

338. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

339. Snow White and Rose Red by Brothers Grimm

340. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and


Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore

341. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

342. Songbook by Nick Hornby

343. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

344. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

345. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

346. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De


Burgos by Julia De Burgos

347. “Sonnet 43” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

348. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

349. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning


350. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

351. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

352. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

353. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

354. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

355. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

356. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis
Stevenson

357. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

358. Stuart Little by E.B. White

359. Summer of Fear by T. Jefferson Parker

360. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

361. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

362. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins


and Seals by Anne Collett

363. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

364. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

365. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

366. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

367. Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

368. Tevya the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem


Aleichem

369. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy 


370. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

371. Time and Again by Jack Finney

372. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

373. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

374. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

375. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

376. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

377. The Trial by Franz Kafka

378. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by


Elisabeth Robinson

379. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

380. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

381. Ulysses by James Joyce

382. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

383. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

384. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

385. Unless by Carol Shields

386. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

387. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

388. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

389. Velvet Underground’s the Velvet Underground and Nico (33 1/3
Book 11) by Joe Harvard

390. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides


391. Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

392. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

393. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

394. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

395. We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by


Daniel Sinker

396. What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles

397. What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell

398. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

399. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

400. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

401. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by
Gregory Maguire

402. Wild by Cheryl Strayed

403. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

404. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

405. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

406. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

407. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

408. Yoga for Dummies by Georg Feuerstein and Larry Payne 

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