Books That You Must Read

New Year resolution comes in many flavours. As far I am concerned, I would like to spend much of my time on watching movies and reading books. So, the books listed below are my recommendation. I will list the highly recommended movies in my next post.

 

 

	Author.	Title.
	Aeschylus	Prometheus Bound
	Alcott, Louisa May	Little Women
	Anderson, Sherwood	Winesburg, Ohio
	Anderson, Hans Christian	Fairy Tales
	Aristotle	The Poetics
	Augustine of Hippo	The Confessions
	Austen, Jane	Emma
	Austen, Jane	Mansfield Park
	Austen, Jane	Northanger Abbey
	Austen, Jane	Persuasion
	Austen, Jane	Pride and Prejudice
	Austen, Jane	Sense and Sensibility
	Balzac, Honore de	Colonel Chabert
	Balzac, Honore de	Cousin Bette
	Balzac, Honore de	The Country Doctor
	Balzac, Honore de	Father Goriot
	Barrie, J.M.	Peter Pan
	Bellamy, Edward	Looking Backward
	[Anonymous]	Beowulf
		The Bible, King James Version
		The Bible, New Testament (KJV)
		The Bible, Old Testament (KJV)
	Blake, William	Songs of Innocence and Experience
	Boccaccio, Giovanni	The Decameron
	Bronte, Anne	Agnes Grey
	Bronte, Anne	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
	Bronte, Charlotte	Jane Eyre
	Bronte, Charlotte	Villette
	Bronte, Emily	Wuthering Heights
	Browning, Elizabeth Barrett	Sonnets from the Portuguese
	Browning, Robert	Selected Poetry
	Bunyan, John	The Pilgrim's Progress
	Cather, Willa	My Antonia
	Cather, Willa	Death Comes for the Archbishop
	Cervantes, Miguel de	Don Quixote
	Chaucer, Geoffrey	The Canterbury Tales
	Chekhov, Anton	The Seagull
	Chekhov, Anton	Uncle Vanya
	Chopin, Kate	The Awakening & Selected Stories
	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	Poetry & Rime of the Ancient Mariner
	Collins, Wilkie	The Law and the Lady
	Collins, Wilkie	The Moonstone
	Collins, Wilkie	The Woman in White
	Conrad, Joseph	Heart of Darkness
	Conrad, Joseph	Lord Jim
	Conrad, Joseph	Nostromo
	Conrad, Joseph	The Secret Sharer
	Conrad, Joseph	Typhoon
	Crane, Stephen	The Red Badge of Courage
	Dana, Richard Henry	Two Years Before the Mast
	Dante, Alighieri	The Divine Comedy
	Darwin, Charles	Origin of the Species
	Defoe, Daniel	Robinson Crusoe
	Defoe, Daniel	Moll Flanders
	Dickens, Charles	Bleak House
	Dickens, Charles	A Christmas Carol
	Dickens, Charles	David Copperfield
	Dickens, Charles	Great Expectations
	Dickens, Charles	Nicholas Nickleby
	Dickens, Charles	Oliver Twist
	Dickens, Charles	Pictures from Italy
	Dickens, Charles	The Pickwick Papers
	Dickens, Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
	Dickinson, Emily	Collected Poems.
	Donne, John	Songs and Sonnets
	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	Crime and Punishment
	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	The Double
	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	The Gambler
	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	Notes from the Underground
	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	The Idiot
	Douglass, Frederick	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
	Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
	Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir	The Hound of the Baskervilles
	Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir	Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
	Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir	The Return of Sherlock Holmes
	Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir	His Last Bow
	Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir	The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
	Dreiser, Theodore	Sister Carrie
	Dumas, Alexandre, pere	The Count of Monte Cristo
	Dumas, Alexandre	The Three Musketeers
	Eliot, George	Adam Bede
	Eliot, George	Daniel Deronda
	Eliot, George	Middlemarch
	Eliot, George	The Mill on the Floss
	Eliot, George	Silas Marner
	Eliot, T. S.	The Wasteland
	Eliot, T. S.	The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock & Other Poems
	Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Essays
	Fielding, Henry	The History of Tom Jones
	Fitzgerald, F. Scott	The Great Gatsby
	Flaubert, Gustav	Madame Bovary.
	Forster, E. M.	Howard's End.
	Forster, E. M.	A Room With a View.
	Forster, E. M.	Where Angels Fear to Tread.
	Frost, Robert	Collected Poems.
	Gibran, Khalil	The Madman
	Gibran, Khalil	The Prophet
	Gissing, George	New Grub Street
	Gissing, George	The Odd Women
	Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	The Sorrows of Young Werther
	Gogol, Nikolai	Dead Souls
	Gogol, Nikolai	The Inspector General
	Gogol, Nikolai	The Overcoat
	Hardy, Thomas	Far from the Madding Crowd
	Hardy, Thomas	Jude the Obscure
	Hardy, Thomas	The Mayor of Casterbridge
	Hardy, Thomas	The Return of the Native
	Hardy, Thomas	Tess of the D'Urbervilles
	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The House of the Seven Gables
	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The Scarlet Letter
	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The Blithedale Romance
	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Twice Told Tales
	Hesse, Hermann	Siddhartha
	Homer	The Iliad
	Homer	The Odyssey
	Hugo, Victor	Les Miserables
	Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World
	Ibsen, Henrik	A Doll's House
	Kafka, Franz	The Metamorphosis
	James, Henry	Daisy Miller
	James, Henry	The Ambassadors
	James, Henry	The American
	James, Henry	The Turn of the Screw
	James, Henry	The Portrait of a Lady
	James, Henry	Washington Square
	Joyce, Jame	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
	Joyce, James	Dubliners
	Joyce, James	Ulysses
	Kafka, Franz	The Metamorphosis
	Keats, John	Collected Poems
		The Koran (Qu'ran)
	Kipling, Rudyard	Captains Courageous
	Kipling, Rudyard	Kim
	Khayyam, Omar	The Rubaiyat
	Lawrence, D. H.	Sons and Lovers
	Lawrence, D. H.	Women in Love
	Lewis, Sinclair	Babbit
	Lewis, Sinclair	Main Street
	Locke, John	Second Treatise on Civil Government
	London, Jack	The Call of the Wild
	Machiavelli, Nicolo	The Prince
	Malory, Thomas	Le Mort D'Arthur
	Marlowe, Christopher	Dr. Faustus
	Marx, Kar	The Communist Manifesto
	Melville, Herman	Bartleby, the Scrivener
	Mellville, Herman	Billy Budd
	Mellville, Herman	Moby Dick
	Mellville, Herman	Typee
	Meredith, George	The Egoist
	Milton, John	Paradise Lost
	Milton, John	Paradise Regained
	Moliere	The Miser
	More, Thomas, Sir, Saint	Utopia
	Nietzsche, Friedrich	Beyond Good and Evil
	Orwell, George	1984
	Orwell, George	Animal Farm
	Paine, Thomas	Common Sense
	Plato	The Republic
	Poe, Edgar Allen	Collected Tales
	Pope, Alexander	The Rape of the Lock
	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	The Confessions
	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques	The Social Contract
	Sand, George	Mauprat
	Rowlandson, Mary	Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration
	Scott, Sir Walter	Guy Mannering
	Scott, Sir Walter	Ivanhoe
	Shakespeare, William	Sonnets
	Shakespeare, William	As You Like It
	Shakespeare, William	All's Well That Ends Well
	Shakespeare, William	Antony and Cleopatra
	Shakespeare, William	A Comedy of Errors
	Shakespeare, William	Hamlet
	Shakespeare, William	King Lear
	Shakespeare, William	Macbeth
	Shakespeare, William	The Merchant of Venice
	Shakespeare, William	Much Ado About Nothing
	Shakespeare, William	Julius Caesar
	Shakespeare, William	Romeo and Juliet
	Shakespeare, William	A Midsummer Night's Dream
	Shakespeare, William	Othello
	Shakespeare, William	Twelfth Night
	Shakespeare, William	Two Gentlemen of Verona
	Shaw, George Bernard	Candida
	Shaw, George Bernard	Pygmalion
	Shelley, Mary	Frankenstein
	Sinclair, Upton	The Jungle
	Sophocles	The Oedipus Trilogy
	Stendhal	The Red and the Black
	Sterne, Lawrence	Tristram Shandy
	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Treasure Island
	Stoker, Bram	Dracula
	Stowe, Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom's Cabin
	Sun Tzu	The Art of War
	Swift, Jonathan	A Modest Proposal
	Swift, Jonathan	Gulliver's Travels
	Tennyson, Alfred	Idylls of the King
	Thackeray, William Makepeace	Vanity Fair
	Thoreau, Henry David	On Civil Disobedience
	Thoreau, Henry David	Walden
	Thucydides	History of the Pelyponnesion Wars
	Tolstoy, Leo	Anna Karenina
	Tolstoy, Leo	War and Peace
	Trollope, Anthony	Barchester Towers
	Trollope, Anthony	The Way We Live Now
	Truth, Sojourner [Gilbert]	The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
	Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
	Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
	Twain, Mark	The Innocents Abroad
	Twain, Mark	Life on the Mississippi
	Twain, Mark	The Mysterious Stranger
	Twain, Mark	On the Decay of the Art of Lying
	Twain, Mark	The Prince and the Pauper
	Twain, Mark	Pudd'nhead Wilson
	U. S.	United States Constitution
	U. S.	Declaration of Independence
	Verne, Jules	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
	Verne, Jules	Around the World in Eighty Days
	Voltaire	Candide
	Wells, H. G.	War of the Worlds
	Wells, H. G.	The Time Machine
	Wharton, Edith	The Age of Innocence
	Wharton, Edith	The House of Mirth
	Wharton, Edith	Ethan Frome
	Whitman, Walt	Leaves of Grass
	Wilde, Oscar	The Picture of Dorian Grey
	Wollstonecraft, Mary	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
	Wordsworth, William	Lyrical Ballads
	Wordsworth, William	The Prelude
	Woolf, Virginia	A Room of One's Own