101+ Great Books to While Away the Washout
(Recommendations from a World-Class Reader)
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Semi-Autobiographies
Humourous Semi-Autobiographies
Psychology
Poetry
Plays
Children’s Stories for Adults
Other
Fiction
Allende, Isabel:
The House of the Spirits
Atwood, Margaret:
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Blind Assassin
Oryx and Crake
Austen, Jane:
Pride and Prejudice
Barker, Pat:
Regeneration; Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road (trilogy)
Beagle, Peter S.:
The Last Unicorn
A Fine and Private Place
Bronte, Emily:
Wuthering Heights
Collins, Wilkie:
The Moonstone
The Woman in White
De la Mare,Walter:
Confessions of a Midget
Dickens, Charles:
David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor:
The Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot
The Possessed/Devils
Du Maurier, Daphne:
The House on the Strand
Rebecca
Faulkner, William:
The Reivers
Finney, Charles G:
The Circus of Dr Lao
Fowles, John:
The Magus
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Galdós, Benito Pérez:
Misericordia
Fortunada y Jacinta
Hardy, Thomas:
Tess D’Urbeville
Return of the Native
James, P.D.:
Children of Men
Kesey, Ken:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kirkwood, James:
Good Times, Bad Times
Leavitt, ed. Hart Day:
The Looking Glass Book of Stories
Le Carré, John:
The Constant Gardener
A Perfect Spy
Lee, Harper:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Llosa, Mario Vargas:
The City and the Dogs
Macaulay, Rose:
The Towers of Trebizon
Márquez, Gabriel García:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Maughan, W. Somerset:
Of Human Bondage
The Razor’s Edge
McCullers, Carson:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Member of the Wedding
Mitchell, Margaret:
Gone With the Wind
Nabokov, Vladimir:
Lolita
O’Brien, Flann:
The Third Policeman
Pagnol, Marcel:
Jean de Florette
Pasternak, Boris:
Doctor Zhivago
Porter, Catherine Ann:
Ship of Fools
Salinger, J.D.:
Franny and Zooey
Nine Stories
Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters, and Seymour: An Introduction
Scott, Paul:
The Raj Quartet
Staying On
The Bender
Tartt, Donna:
The Little Friend
A Secret History
Toer, Anata P.:
The Glass House
Tolstoy, Leo:
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Twain, Mark:
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Various Short Stories
Williams, Trevor:
The Collected Stories
Non-Fiction
Attenborough, David:
The Life of Birds
The Life of Mammals
Herriot, James:
All Creatures Great and Small
All Things Bright and Beautiful
All Things Wise and Wonderful
Levi-Strauss, Claude:
Tristes Tropiques
Mead, Margaret:
Any of her books (anthropology)
Mowett, Farley:
The People of the Deer
Van der Post, Lawrence:
The Lost People of the Kalahari
Venture into the Interior
Semi-Autobiographies
Chatwin, Bruce:
The Songlines in Patagonia
De Quincy, Thomas:
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Frame, Janet:
“To the Is-land” trilogy
Heyerdahl, Thor:
Back to Nature
The Kontiki
Munthe, Axel:
The Story of San Michelle
Neruda, Pablo:
Confesio que he vivido
Orwell, George:
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Road to Wigan Pier
Humourous Semi-Autobiographies
Durrell, Gerald:
My Family and Other Animals
Morris, Desmond:
Animal Days
Sapolsky, Robert:
A Primate’s Memoir
Psychology
Greenberg, Joanne:
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Roland, Alan:
In Search of Self in India and Japan - Toward a Cross-Cultural Psychology
Wurtzel, Elizabeth:
More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
Poetry
Winsor and Parry:
The Space Child’s Mother Goose
Milne, A.A.:
When We Were Very Young
Now We Are Six
Plays
O’Neill, Eugene:
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Alby, Edward:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Bagnold, Enid:
The Chalk Garden
Children’s Stories for Adults
Adams, Richard:
Watership Down
Barrie, J.M.:
Peter Pan
Baum, L. Frank:
The Oz Books (9)
Carroll, Lewis:
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
The Hunting of the Snark
Godden, Rumer:
An Episode of Sparrows
The River
Greengage Summer
Graham, Kenneth:
The Wind in the Willows
Lang, Andrew:
The Coloured Fairytale Book Collection (The Red Fairy Tale Book, etc.)
Milne, A.A.:
Winnie the Pooh
The House at Pooh Corner
Nesbitt, E.:
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Five Children and It
The Railway Children
St Exbury, Anthony:
The Little Prince
Other
Massie, Robert K:
Nicholas and Alexander
Ostrander, Sheila; and Schroeder, Lynn:
Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain
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