In a not-so-short-story, I have been working on this reading list for several years, and am nowhere near completion. I am hoping that in 2022 I will be able to get through about 12 or 13 of the biggest classic novels on this list, making a huge dent in what I'll have to read going forward (and getting quite a few of the most daunting reads out of the way.) I am hoping to do a few chapters per day, and finish 1 book each month. If anyone would like to do a buddy read, let me know!
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1984 - George Orwell
Completed - January 2020 / ⭐⭐⭐⬜⬜
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Completed - December 2019 / ⭐⭐⬜⬜⬜
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Completed - March 2021 / ⭐⭐⬜⬜⬜
Alex Cross Mysteries (Series) - James Patterson
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Completed - April 2019 / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
*Also read Through the Looking Glass
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
*Hopeful 2022 Read
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Completed - March 2019 / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Completed - December 2019 / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Another Country - James Baldwin
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Completed - March 2019 / ⭐⭐⬜⬜⬜
Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Completed - Pre- 2018 / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Completed - March 2022/ ⭐⭐✨⬜⬜
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Completed - July 2021 / ⭐⬜⬜⬜⬜
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Completed - Pre- 2018 / ⭐⭐⬜⬜⬜
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
Completed - March 2019 / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
The Chronicles of Narnia (Series) - C.S. Lewis
Completed - December 2019 / ⭐⭐⬜⬜⬜
*Read The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe & The Magician's Nephew and couldn't continue.
The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
The Coldest Winter Ever - Sister Souljah
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Completed - February 2019 / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
*Hopeful 2022 Read
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*Hopeful 2022 Read
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Completed - July 2021 / ⭐⭐⬜⬜⬜
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
*Hopeful 2022 Read
Doña Bárbara - Rómulo Gallego
Dune - Frank Herbert
Completed - May 2019 / ⭐⭐⬜⬜⬜
Fifty Shades of Grey (Series) - E.L. James
Completed - Pre- 2018 / ⭐⭐⭐⬜⬜
Flowers in the Attic - V.C. Andrews
Foundation (Series) - Isaac Asimov
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Completed - Pre- 2018 / I don't remember it enough to rate it.
*Debating reading this again since I'm not in High School Anymore
A Game of Thrones (Series) - George R.R. Martin
Ghost - Jason Reynolds
Completed - March 2019 / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
*Ended up reading the entire Track series!
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Completed - March 2019 / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Completed - February 2022 / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Completed - January 2022 / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Completed - Pre-2018 / ⭐⬜⬜⬜⬜
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Completed - Pre-2018 (& several times since) / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Completed - April 2022 /
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Completed - February 2017 / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
Harry Potter - J.K Rowling
Completed - Pre-2018 (& several times since) / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Completed - November 2019 / ⭐⭐⬜⬜⬜
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Completed - November 2020 / ⭐⭐⬜⬜⬜
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Completed - Pre 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Completed - December 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
The Hunger Games (Series) - Suzanne Collins
Completed - Pre 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
*Hopeful 2022 Read
The Institutionalist - Colson Whitehead
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Completed - Pre 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Completed - February 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Left Behind (Series) - Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint- Exupéry
Completed - March 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Completed - Pre 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⬜⬜
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
*Hopeful 2022 Read
Looking for Alaska - John Green
Completed - Pre 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Lord of the Rings (Series) - J.R.R Tolkein
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Completed - Pre 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
The Martian - Andy Weir
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Mind Invaders - Dave Hunt
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
*Hopeful 2022 Read
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
Completed - Pre 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⬜⬜
One Hundred Years of Solitude
*Hopeful 2022 Read
Outlander (Series) - Diana Gabaldon
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
Completed - March 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Completed - January 2019 - ⭐⭐⬜⬜⬜
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
Completed - November 2020 - ⭐⭐⭐⬜⬜
The Pillars of Earth - Ken Follett
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Completed - January 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
*Hopeful 2022 Read
The Shack - William P. Young
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Completed - November 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
The Stand - Stephen King
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon
Tales of the City (Series) - Armistead Maupin
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
This Present Darkness - Frank E. Peretti
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Completed - Pre 2019 & July 2021- ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Twilight Saga (Series) - Stephanie Meyer
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
*Hopeful 2022 Read
Watchers - Dean Koontz
The Wheel of Time (Series) - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
Completed - March 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⬜
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Completed - Pre 2019 - ⭐⭐⭐⬜⬜