I am shamelessly stealing this list from Amazon.com. I dont know how many people will agree with it but see what you think do you agree with the author?
1. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
2. The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and Other Stories - Franz Kafka
3. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes - Edith Hamilton - Read
4. Siddartha - Herman Hess
5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
6. The Hobbit or There and Back Again - JRR Tolkien - Read
7. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
8. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - Started, I hated it
9. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus - Read (4th Grade I might read it again)
10. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - I have started this book about 5 times I always make it to page 2.
11. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
12. Animal Farm - George Orwell -Read
13. 1984 - George Orwell -Read
I read 12 and 13 in 6th grade. Those books really helped convince me communism was evil.
14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15. The Awakening and selected stories - Kate Chopin
16. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
17. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - Read somewhere around 7th or 8th Grade I dont remember it well but I do remember it being hard to get thru.
18. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain - Read - Boring
19. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
20. Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
21. Dubliners - James Joyce
22. The Brother Karamazov - Fydor Dostevsky
23. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tenessee Williams
25. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
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