Book List

Hello everyone! I am starting a book challenge! OK, it's not really a challenge, but I am calling it that until I come up with a better name. 


One of my goals on my Day Zero Project list is to read and to do a lot of it! I have a lot of books on the list, I didn't even count them all (mostly for fear that if I know how many books are actually on the list I'll get bummed out and will think that I can't do it, but I know I can!). The books are compiled from a few lists, Teen Read's Ultimate Book List, a list of 101 books that I found on this blog site, and College Board's 101 Great books, as well as a few books that I wanted to read or picked up from Pacific Island literature. 


Some of the books on the list are books that I've already read. I haven't decided if I want to just cross those off the list already or if I want to re-read them. Some are books that I've always wanted to read, while others are books that I've never heard of in my life! Either way, I have 962 days to read through this list! (I think I'm gonna let myself slide a little and get back to the 1001 day point...just for this challenge)


Here's the List:

1776 by David McCullough

1984 by George Orwell

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

Am I Blue? Coming Out From the Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer

The Amazing Adventures of  Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Amazing Grace by Megan Shull

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Animal Farm by George Orwell

A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Antigone-Sophocles

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The Adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt

The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Beowulf

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding

The Beach House by James Patterson

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

Beginner’s Luck by Laura Pederson

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Big  Fish by Daniel Wallace

The Big Shuffle by Laura Pedersen

The Black Sheep by Honore De Balzac

The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani

Blind Faith by Ellen Wittlinger

The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint

The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum Ucci

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

Breaking Point by Alex Flinn

Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt

The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier

The Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

Brooklyn Rose by Ann Rinaldi

Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me by Lurline Wailana McGregor

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

Clan and the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoyevsky

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Call It Sleep by Henry Roth

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Candide by Voltaire

Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson

A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth

A Child Called It (Series) by Dave Pelzer
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (series)

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Copper Sun by Sharon Draper

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

Charlotte Bronte by Jane Eyre

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

A Death in the Family by James Agee

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (series)

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Distance from Normandy by Jonathan Hull

The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer

Dangerous Liaisons by Charles Choderlos De Laclos

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler

East by Edith Pattou
The Eight by Katherine Neville

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Eragon by Christopher Paolini (series)

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Emma by Jane Austen

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

Fiela se Kind by Dalene Matthee

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

Feed by M.T. Anderson

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

For One More Day by Mitch Albom

The Foretelling by Alice Hoffman

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg

Frozen Rodeo by Catherine Clark

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Group by Mary McCarthy

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Geography of Girlhood by Kristen Smith
Gifts by Ursula K. LeGuin

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Girls by Lori Lansens

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls

Godless by Peter Hautman

The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian

Gossmaer by Lois Lowry

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Santini by Pat Conroy

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (series)

Green Angel by Alice Hoffman

Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway

The Good Mother by Sue Miller

Harry Potter by JK Rowling (series)

Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen by Queen Lili’uokalani

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Heart’s Desire by Laura Pedersen

The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch

Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
The Host by Stephenie Meyer

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (series)

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw

Household Words by Joan Silber

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Iliad by Homer

I Am The Cheese by Robert Cormier

I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak

I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

If You Came Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason

Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Ironman by Chris Crutcher

It by Stephen King

It’s Kind of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

Inferno by Dante

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Jumping The Scratch by Sarah Weeks

Just In Case by Meg Rosoff

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Kringe in ‘n Bos by Dalene Matthee

Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen

King Dork by Frank Portman

The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander

Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond.

Last Call by Laura Pedersen

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (series)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill

Love and Friendship by Jane Austen

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Last Call by Laura Pedersen

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Letters to A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Looking for Alaska by John Green

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Lost Generations: A Boy, A School, A Princess by J. Arthur Rath

Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt

Memoirs of A Geisha by Arthur Golden

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Magician by Raymond E Feist

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Magus by John Fowles

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Marley and Me by John Grogan

Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson (series)

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Me and Emma by Elizabeth Flock

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

Messenger In A Bottle by Nicholas Sparks

Messenger by Lois Lowry

Minister’s Daughter by Julie Hearn

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

The Mango’s Kiss by Albert Wendt

My Jim by Nancy Rawles

My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

Mort by Terry Pratchett
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Native Son by Richard Wright

The Necessary Beggar by Susan Palwick

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock

Night by Elie Wiesel

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

The Noah Confessions by Barbara Hall

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

The Odyssey by Homer

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolverb

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

A Pained House by John Grisham

Peace Like A River by Leif Enger

Perfect by Natasha Friend

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Presepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Pigman by Paul Zindel

Peony In Love by Lisa See

The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Pouliuli by Albert Wendt

Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyon

Q&A by Vikas Swarup

River God by Wilbur Smith

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Robison Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Rocket Boys/October Sky by Homer Hickam

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Runemarks by Joanne Harris

The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Spud by John van de Ruit

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

Shades by Marguerite Poland

Story of An African Farm by Olive Schreiner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Sabriel by Garth Nix

Sarah by Marek Halter (series)

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinksy

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney by Suzanne Harper

Senioritis by Tate Thompson

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson

Sign of the Raven by Julie Hearn

Skellig by David Almond

The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See

Snow in August by Pete Hamill

So B. It by Sarah Weeks

Someone Like Summer by M.E. Kerr
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox

Sons for the Return Home by Albert Wendt

Spiritwalker by Hank Wesselman

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Turn of the Screw

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble

Thirsty by M.T. Anderson

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin

A Time to Kill by John Grisham

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (series)

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (series)

Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin

Vote for Larry by Janet Tashjian

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Watership Down by Richard Adams
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The World According to Garp by John Irving

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Wait for Me by An Na

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block

What Happened to Cass McBride by Gail Giles

What I Was by Meg Rosoff
When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks

The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Wish You Well by David Baldacci

Thee Woman In White by Wilkie Collins

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wrinkle In Time by Madelene L’Engle

Women In Love by D.H. Lawrence

Wayfinding through the Storm by Gavan Daws

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted by Alan Duff

A Yellow Raft In Blue Water by Michael Dorris

You, Maybe by Rachel Vail

Now, my only problem is deciding where to start!