You are good at something, stop lying to yourself. You’re good at breaking down comic book plots, cooking ramen perfectly, making your friends happy, knowing the time without looking at a clock, getting the perfect ending at RPG’s, or figuring out the twist ending to movies. Don’t let society tell you your talents are meaningless because they don’t serve an economical purpose. Your talents reflect your interests and passions, and what’s important to you is important.
Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Lord of the Rings– JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre – Charlotte BronteHarry Potter series– JK RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird– Harper LeeThe Bible– Council of Nicea
Wuthering Heights – Emily BronteNineteen Eighty Four– George Orwell
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Great Expectations – Charles DickensLittle Women– Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Rebecca – Daphne Du MaurierThe Hobbit– JRR Tolkien
Birdsong – Sebastian FaulkCatcher in the Rye– JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Gone With The Wind – Margaret MitchellThe Great Gatsby– F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House – Charles DickensWar and Peace– Leo TolstoyThe Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy– Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath – John SteinbeckAlice in Wonderland– Lewis CarrollThe Wind in the Willows– Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina – Leo TolstoyDavid Copperfield– Charles DickensChronicles of Narnia– CS Lewis
Emma – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane AustenThe Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe– CS Lewis
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De BernieresMemoirs of a Geisha– Arthur GoldenWinnie the Pooh– AA MilneAnimal Farm– George OrwellThe Da Vinci Code– Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
The Woman in White – Wilkie CollinsAnne of Green Gables– LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret AtwoodLord of the Flies– William Golding
Atonement– Ian McEwanLife of Pi– Yann MartelDune– Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles DickensBrave New World– Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia MarquezOf Mice and Men– John Steinbeck
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History – Donna TarttThe Lovely Bones– Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children – Salman RushdieMoby Dick– Herman MelvilleOliver Twist– Charles Dickens
Dracula – Bram StokerThe Secret Garden– Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
Ulysses – James JoyceThe Bell Jar– Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
Germinal – Emile Zola
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession – AS ByattA Christmas Carol– Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance – Rohinton MistryCharlotte’s Web– EB WhiteThe Five People You Meet In Heaven– Mitch AlbomAdventures of Sherlock Holmes– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid BlytonHeart of Darkness– Joseph ConradThe Little Prince– Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory – Iain BanksWatership Down– Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre DumasHamlet– William ShakespeareCharlie and the Chocolate Factory– Roald Dahl
