I was recently inspired by author Christos Tsiolkas (at a writing workshop I inveigled my way into) that I need to read more widely than I currently do. And so I trawled the interwebs for books I haven't read (or read a long time ago) that are considered to be great works of fiction. They are as follows:
This list is in no way my own - I 'borrowed' it from the internets. Full credit goes to Reddit users for their suggestions.
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", by Robert M. Pirsig
"Watership Down", by Richard Adams
"The Last Lecture", by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
"A Short History of Nearly Everything", by Bill Bryson
"Man's Search for Meaning", by Viktor Frankl
"The Forever War", by Joe Haldeman
"Cosmos", by Carl Sagan
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street", by Herman Melville
"Maus: A Survivor's Tale", by Art Spiegelman
"For Whom the Bell Tolls", by Earnest Hemmingway
"Kafka on the Shore", by Haruki Murakami
"The Little Prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exipery
"The Road", by Cormac McCarthy
"One Hundred Years of Solitude", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"East if Eden", by John Steinbeck
"How to Win Friends and Influence People", by Dale Carnegie
"Crime and Punishment", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"The Brothers Karamazov", by Fyodor Dostoyevski
"The Stranger", by Albert Camus
"Dune", by Frank Herbert
"The Handmaid's Tale", by Margaret Atwood
"Anne of Green Gables", by L.M. Montgomery
"Farenheit 451", by Ray Bradbury
"The Giving Tree", by Shel Silverstein
"To Kill a Mockingbird", by Harper Lee
"Animal Farm", by George Orwell
"All Quiet on the Western Front", by Erich Maria Remarque
"The Count of Monte Cristo", by Alexandre Dumas
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", by Philip K. Dick
"Catch 22", by Joseph Heller
"Slaughterhouse Five", by Kurt Vonnegut
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams
"Brave New World", by Aldous Huxley
"Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes
"1984", by George Orwell
I will cross each book off as I read them and leave my thoughts about them on this blog.
Have a good book suggestion? Leave it in the comments!
