I've edited and re-edited my book list for the next few months, but I've finally narrowed it down to a list I am incredibly happy with me. It is not much shorter than the other list, but I feel like it is a much more manageable selection and I can always ask my parents to send me more as necessary. (and I have my Kindle, what a relief!)
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- All You Who Sleep Tonight by Vikram Seth
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Dead Souls by Nicolai Gogol
- Elephant Rocks by Kay Ryan
- Gold Set Dancing by James Liddy
- Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
- Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression by Allen Ginsberg
- Junky by William S. Burroughs
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean Paul Sartre
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- One Act: Eleven Short Plays of the Modern Theatre edited by Samuel Moon
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kessey
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Kolosterman
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
- We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
- Writings from Prison by Bobby Sands
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Out of what I've selected, here is some data about the books:
Total number of books: 37
Total number of books: 37
Genre: Poetry - 6 (16.22%)
Genre: Novel - 28 (75.68%)
Genre: Nonfiction - 3 (8.11%)
Genre: Drama - 2 (5.41%)
Genre: Combination - 1 (2.70%)
Male Author - 29 (78.38%)
Female Author - 8 (21.62%)
Less than 200 pages - 15 (40.54%)
Between 200 and 400 pages - 20 (54.05%)
Over 400 pages - 2 (5.41%)
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