I wanted to put together a list of some of my favourite books as well as books I can highly recommend. Some of them I will have posted about, others I won’t. And yes, this is a list of books written by both women and men…
- Alice Walker – The Color Purple
- Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl
- Azar Nafisi – Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
- Bram Stoker – Dracula
- Candice Carty-Williams – Queenie
- Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Purple Hibiscus
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – The Thing Around Your Neck
- Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
- Elif Shafak – 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
- Ernest Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Eva Menasse – Tiere für Fortgeschrittene
- Ferdinand von Schirach – Schuld
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt – Die Physiker
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Günter Grass – Die Blechtrommel
- Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Harriet A. Jacobs – Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Helen Mort – No Map Could Show Them
- Imbolo Mbue – Behold the Dreamers
- Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility
- Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen – Mansfield Park
- Jane Austen – Emma
- Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey
- Jane Austen – Lady Susan
- Jane Austen – Juvenilia Volumes I, II and III
- Jhumpa Lahiri – Unaccustomed Earth
- Jhumpa Lahiri – The Namesake
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust I
- Julie Zeh – Unterleuten
- John Steinbeck – East of Eden
- John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath
- Khaled Hosseini – Kite Runner
- Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Khaled Hosseini – And the Mountains Echoed
- Khaled Hosseini – Sea Prayer
- Lavinia Greenlaw – The Importance of Music to Girls
- Leila Aboulela – Elsewhere, Home
- Leila Aboulela – Bird Summons
- Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland
- Louisa May Alcott – Little Women
- Maisy Card – These Ghosts are Family
- Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
- Marlen Haushofer – Die Wand
- Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind
- Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
- Min Jin Lee – Pachinko
- Monique Truong – Bitter In the Mouth
- Namwali Serpell – The Old Drift
- Nawal El Saadawi – Woman at Point Zero
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o – Dreams in a Time of War
- Oyinkan Braithwaite – My Sister, the Serial Killer
- Sabahattin Ali – Madonna in a Fur Coat
- Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
- Tayari Jones – Silver Sparrow
- Tennessee Williams – A Streetcar Named Desire
- Thomas Mann – Buddenbrooks
- Toni Morrison – Beloved
- Toni Morrison – Song of Solomon
- Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
- William Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing
- Yris Yang – Wings of a Flying Tiger
- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor – Dust
- Zadie Smith – White Teeth
While they aren’t necessarily among my favourites, I can also recommend the following…
- Abi Dare – The Girl with the Louding Voice
- Albert Camus – The Outsider
- Albert Camus – The Plague
- Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus
- Anne Bronte – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
- Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
- Emily Dickinson – The Complete Poems
- Emma Donoghue – Room
- Franz Kafka – Die Verwandlung
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Heather Morris – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- Heinrich von Kleist – Das Käthchen von Heilbronn
- Jane Austen – Persuasion
- J. K. Rowling – The Casual Vacancy
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Die Leiden des jungen Werther
- John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
- Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
- Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
- Robert Galbraith – Cormoran Strike Books 1-4
- Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Sally Rooney – Normal People
- Sophocles – Antigone
- Theodor Fontane – Effi Briest
- Thomas Hardy – Far From the Madding Crowd
- William Shakespeare – Macbeth
- William Shakespeare – Hamlet
- Zeruya Shalev – Pain
And here is a list of other books I’ve read, whether I liked or would recommend them or not…
- Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
- Bertolt Brecht – Leben des Galilei
- Ernest Hemingway – Old Man and the Sea
- E. T. A. Hoffmann – Das Fräulein von Scuderi
- E. T. A. Hoffmann – Der Sandmann
- Friedrich Schiller – Die Räuber
- George Eliot – Middlemarch
- Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Helen Macdonald – H is for Hawk
- Hermann Hesse – Siddhartha
- Hermann Hesse – Unterm Rad
- Margaret Atwood – The Testaments
- Mark Twain – Pudd’nhead Wilson
- Max Frisch – Homo Faber
- Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Philip Larkin – Collected Poems
- Thomas Mann – Der Tod in Venedig
- Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway
- Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
Finally, here is what I plan to read next…
- Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
- Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
- Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
- Ayana Mathis – The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
- Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing
- Elena Ferrante – Troubling Love
- Gila Lustiger – Die Schuld der Anderen
- Harper Lee – Go Set a Watchman
- Heinrich Böll – Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
- Robert Menasse – The Capital
- Tennessee Williams – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Toni Morrison – Paradise
- Yoko Tawada – Memoirs of a Polar Bear
- Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God
