This is a list of books to read at some point in one's life. Many are my favorite books.
 

• 1984 by George Orwell

• A Separate Peace by John Knowles

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

• A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul

• A Dance to the Music of Time (series) by Anthony Powell

• A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

• A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul

• A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

• A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

• A Change of Heart by David Garrett Izzo

• A Tomb on the Periphery by John Domini

• Alive by Piers Paul Read

• All the Kingıs Men by Robert Penn Warren

• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

• Anthem by Ayn Rand

• Appointment in Samarra by John OıHara

• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

• Be the Person You Were Meant to Be by Dr. Jerry Greenwald

• Being There by Jerzy Kosinski

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Billy Budd by Herman Melville

• Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright

• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya

• Blindness by Jose Saramago

• Bones Washed with Wine by Jeff Mann

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

• By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho

• Canciones para una sola cuerda / Songs for a Single String by Jesıs Gardea / trans. Robert L. Giron

• Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

• Cathedral by Raymond Carver

• City of Night by John Rechy

• Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Damian by Hermann Hesse

• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

• Dead Time / Tiempo muerto by Carlos Rubio

• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

• Deliverance by James Dickey

• Dervish by Gerard Wozek

• Dreams and Other Ailments / Sueıos y otros Achaques by Teresa Bevin

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

• Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

• Feelings by Willard Gaylin, M.D.

• Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• From Here to Eternity by James Jones

• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

• Hard Time by Charles Dickens

• Havana Split by Teresa Bevin

• Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

• Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

• Hiroshima by John Hersey

• Home by LeRoi Jones

• Honey by Richard Carr

• House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

• House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

• Howards End by E. M. Forster

• I, Claudius by Robert Graves

• I'm Ok You're Ok by Thomas H. Harris, M.D.

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

• Ironweed by William Kennedy

• It Takes a Village: An Other Lessons Children Teach Us by Hillary Rodham Clinton

• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

• Kim by Rudyard Kipling

• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

• Let Orpheus Take Your Hand by George Klawitter

• Light in August by William Faulkner

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

• Loving by Henry Green

• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

• Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

• Maurice by E. M. Forster

• Maximus in Catland by David Garrett Izzo

• Metamorphosis of the Serpent God by Robert L. Giron

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

• Native Son by Richard Wright

• Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

• Now I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings by Maya Angalou

• Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

• On the Road by Jak Kerouac

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

• On the Altar of Greece by Donna J. G. Lee

• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

• Paradeıs End by Ford Maddox Ford

• Pelican Brief by John Grisham

• Poetic Voices Without Borders edited by Robert L. Giron

• Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal

• Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley

• Portnoyıs Complaint by Philip Roth

• Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow

• Rite of Passage by Richard Wright

• Roots by Alex Haley

• Secret Memories / Recuerdos secretos by Carlos Rubio

• Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

• Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

• Songs for the Spirit by Robert L. Giron

• Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

• Sophieıs Choice by William Styron

• Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

• Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

• Studs Lonigan (Trilogy) by James T. Farrell

• Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

• Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Hours by Michael Cunningham

• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

• The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

• The Way of all Flesh by Samuel Butler

• The Ambassadors by Henry James

• The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

• The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

• The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever

• The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

• The Golden Bowl by Henry James

• The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

• The Living and the Dead by Paul Hendrickson

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

• The Old Wivesı Tale by Arnold Bennett

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London

• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

• The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy

• The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

• The Magus by John Fowles

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Sexual Outlaw by John Rechy

• The Prince by Machiavelli

• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

• The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

• The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

• The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

• The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

• The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler

• The Great Canopy by Paula Goldman

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• The Shining by Stephen King

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

• The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence by Dr. Robert Anthony

• The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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

• The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo Jose Cela

• The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Satre

• The Smoke Week: Sept. 9-11, 2001 by Ellis Avery

• The Origin of the Milky Way by Barbara Louis Ungar

• The Nature Sonnets by Jill Williams

• The Last of Paradise by Kiki Denis

• The Spanish Teacher by Barbara de la Cuesta

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

• Tickets to a Closing Play by Janet I. Buck

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

• Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

• Twelve Rivers of the Body by Elizabeth Oness

• U.S.A. (Trilogy) by John Dos Passos

• Ulysses by James Joyce

• Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

• Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

• Washington Square by Henry James

• Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? by Edward Albee

• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

• Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

• Wrestling with Wood by Robert L. Giron

• Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm