Alphabetical by author’s last name. I make no claims that everyone will like them – only that I did.
New recs are coloured in blue.
Collaborations
- Good Omens (novel), Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- The Nanny Diaries (novel), Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Fairytales
- The Arabian Nights
- Anything by Hans Christian Andersen
- Collections by the Brothers Grimm
- The Happy Prince and The Rose by Oscar Wilde
Abbott, Edwin A.
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (novel)
Austen, Jane
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Pride and Prejudice (novel)
Barron, T. A.
- The Lost Years of Merlin (series: 5)
Bronte, Charlotte
- Jane Eyre (novel)
- Villette (novel)
Bronte, Emily
- Wuthering Heights (novel)
Burnett, Frances Hodgeson
- The Secret Garden (novel)
Card, Scott Orson
- Ender’s Game (novel)
Christie, Agatha
- The Murder of Roger Akroyd (novel)
- Murder on the Orient Express (novel)
- And Then There Were None (novel)
- The Mousetrap (play)
Cooper, Susan
- The Dark is Rising Sequence (series: 5)
Coupland, Douglas
- Hey Nostradamus! (novel)
- JPod (novel)
Dumas fils
- La Dame aux Camélias (novel)
Eugenides, Jeffrey
- Middlesex (novel)
Fforde, Jasper
- Thursday Next (series: 5 ongoing)
- Nursery Crime (series: 2 ongoing ?)
Fielding, Helen
- Bridget Jones (novel)
- The Edge of Reason (novel)
Fitch, Janet
- White Oleander (novel)
Gaiman, Neil
- Stardust (novel)
- Fragile Things (short story collection)
- American Gods (novel)
- Smoke and Mirrors (short story collection)
Golden, Arthur
- Memoirs of a Geisha (novel)
Hosseini, Khaled
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The Kite Runner (novel)
Lee, Harper
- To Kill a Mockingbird (novel)
L’Engle, Madeleine
- A Wrinkle in Time (novel)
- A Wind in the Door (novel)
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet (novel)
- Many Waters (novel)
- A House Like a Lotus (novel)
- The Arm of the Starfish (novel)
- An Acceptable Time (novel)
Levine, Gail Carson
- Ella Enchanted (novel)
- Fairest (novel)
Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staple)
- Chronicles of Narnia (series: 7)
Martel, Yann
- Life of Pi (novel)
McEwan, Ian
- Atonement (novel)
McKinley, Robin
- Beauty (novel)
- Sunshine (novel)
- Deerskin (novel)
Montgomery, L.M.
- Anne of Green Gables (series: ten billion. Just kidding: 7/8 if you count Rilla)
- Emily of New Moon (series: 3)
- Rilla of Ingleside (novel)
Pierce, Tamora
- The Lioness (series: 4)
- The Wildmage (series: 4)
- Trickster (series: 2)
- Provost’s Terrier (series: 1 ongoing)
- The Circle of Magic (series: 4)
- The Circle Opens (series: 4)
- The Circle Reforged (novel)
Pratchett, Terry
- Hogfather (novel)
- Thief of Time (novel)
- Going Postal (novel)
- Reaper Man (novel)
- Guards! Guards! (novel)
- Thud! (novel)
- The Fifth Elephant (novel)
- The Colour of Magic (novel)
- Making Money (novel)
Pullman, Philip
- His Dark Materials (series: 3)
- Lyra’s Oxford (companion to HDM)
- Once Upon A Time In the North (companion to HDM)
- The Ruby in the Smoke (part one of Sally Lockhart trilogy)
- The Tin Princess (Sally Lockhart spinoff)
Rowling, J.K.
- Harry Potter and the … (series: 7) I’m sure they’ve been on every rec list from here to Timbuktu, but what the heck.
- Tales of Beedle the Bard (short story collection)
Saramago, José
- Blindness (novel)
Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Lord of the Rings (six-part novel)
- The Hobbit (novel)
Vonnegut, Kurt
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Cat’s Cradle (novel)
- Slaughterhouse 5 (novel)
- Breakfast of Champions (novel)
White, T. H.
- The Once and Future King (series :5)
Wilde, Oscar
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (novel)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (play)
Planning to read/Suggested:
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Marquez
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- The Mystery of the Yellow Room, Gaston Leroux (suggested by flyingcrispi)
- Samaria Series, Sharon Shin (suggested by yonheet55)
Can I recommend books too?
Because you seem to like mystery-crime solving books, (cf Agatha Christie), so I’ll recommend “The Mystery Of The Yellow Room” by Gaston Leroux.
The plot (from wiki) :
The crime takes place at the Chateau du Glandier, and the daughter of a famous scientist is found the victim of attempted murder. The strange thing is that the room is locked from the inside and there are no other ways in. A police detective is involved but the young journalist Joseph Rouletabille is more concerned with unravelling the mystery by use of reasoning and logic.
It’s kind of old (1907), so don’t expect CSI stuff, it’s all in the brain. There’s a movie also.
hey i happen to find your site via all the post you wrote on doremifasolatido, a movie i’m excited to watch for the one and only jang geun suk.
however, i really love your choice of books!! especially tamora pierce! she’s pretty great, and i was lucky to have discovered her in my younger imaginative years! ^_^
may i also suggest Sharon Shin, the samaria series. they are series based on a world where angels exist, very sci-fi, but with romance >.<
Thanks to both flyingcrispi and yonheet55! You’ll find that I’ve added a ‘Planning to read/Suggested books section”.
AHH Love in the Time of Cholera! I was gonna start that book after my finals! haha
We have similar taste! *waggles eyebrows*
*winks back with a big grin*
hi! you might want to try orson scott card, known primarily for his groundbreaking ENDER series. he’s known more for his sci-fi, but he’s written some terrific fantasy as well: HART’S HOPE and ENCHANTMENT (a retelling of sleeping beauty), to name a few. he won’t disappoint.
Oh yeah, thanks! I’ve read Ender’s Game already, forgot to put it up.
ooh don’t know if you’ve heard of this one
Time Traveller’s Wife
it’s a bit sappy but if you liked Villette (and it’s overthe top drama)
you’d probably like this one
*ps wow i don’t know anyone else in the world who read Dark is Rising Series! that was a greatttttttt story
Ooh, great list. I’ve only read 17 of the books listed, and a lot of the others I’ve been wanting to read. If only books grew on trees.
Catch 22 is one of my favourite books – if you liked Slaughterhouse 5 I’m sure you’ll like it too. Anyway, nice list! I’d also recommend ‘Cloud Atlas’ by David Mitchell (a novel of epic-ly awesome proportions).
I liked Dracula, it’s great, and different from the movie.
It’s about witches, goblins, etc. A movie is planned, maybe more if it works well i guess.
If you like Harry Potter, you could like “L’Apprenti Épouvanteur” (The Spook’s Apprentice) from Joseph Delaney, it’s a serie of seven books too, i’m waiting the sixth one
I like your blog, thanks for sharing all those treasures <3
Terry Pratchett! I love
I also love most of the other books on your list, and those that I don’t know I’ll be sure to look up. Thanks for this! <3