Bookshelf

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

• 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

• 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

• 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)