Wiam Alnajar’s Book Recommendations

* if I don’t write the genre between brackets, it’s a novel.

1. A Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin

2. A Room of One’s Own: Virginia Woolf (article)
3. Doctor Faustus: Christopher Marlowe (play)
4. Death of a Salesman: Arthur Miller (play)
5. The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: Mohja Kahf
6. To Kill a Mocking Bird: Harper Lee
7. The Translator: Leila Aboulela
8. The Heretic’s Daughter: Kathleen Kent
9. The Second Class Citizen: Buchi Emecheta
10.The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mohsin Hamid
11.Oedipus the King: Sophocles (Play)
12.Hedda Gabler: Henrik Ibsen (play)
13.The Bear: Chekhov (play)
14.Trifles: Glaspell (play)
15. Adventures of Huckleberry Fin: Mark Twain
16. The Awakening: Kate Chopin
17.The Yellow Wallpaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (short story)
18. Ethan Frome: Edith Wharton
19. The Waste Land: T.S. Eliot (poem)
20.Wuthering Heights: Emile Bronte
21. The Illiad: Homer
22.The Odyssey: Homer
23.Prometheus Bound: Aeschylus (play)
24.The Aeneid: Virgil
25.The Prince: Machiavelli (non-fiction/political)
26.Self-Reliance: Ralph Waldo Emerson (article)
27.A Farwell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway
28.The Gift of the Magi (short story)
29.Mammon and the Archer: O Henry (short story)
30.A White Heron: Sarah Orne Jewett (short story)
31.Roman Fever: Edith Wharton (short story)
32.The Great Gatsby: F.Scott Fitzgerald
33.The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber: Ernest Hemingway (short
story)
34.Indian Camp: Ernest Hemingway (short story)
35.A Late Encounter with the Enemy: Flannery O’Conner (short story)
36.The Cask of Amontillado: Edgar Allan Poe (short story)
37.Young Goodman Brown: Nathaniel Hwathorne (short story)
38.The Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne
39.The Crucible: Arthur Miller (play)
40.Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Harriet Beecher Stowe
41.The Man Who Captured Hadleyburg: Mark Twain (short story)
42.The Story of an Hour: Kate Chopin (short story)
43.The Real Thing: Henry James (short story)
44.The Turn of the Screw: Henry James
45.The Open Boat: Stephen Crane (short story)
46. Charles Dickens: David Copperfield/ Great Expectations/ Oliver Twist/
A Tale of Two Cities/ Dombey and Son/ Little Dorrit/ Hard Times
47.Shakespeare: Hamlet/ Richard the Third/ Macbeth/ King Lear/ As You
Like it (basically all of his plays)
48.The Mother: Maxim Gorky
49.The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Victor Hugo
50.The Idiot: Dostoevsky
51.The Conformist: Alberto Moravia
52.The Old Man and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway
53.The House of Bernarda Alba: Federico Garcia Lorca (play)
54. Tartuffe: Moliere (play)
55.Paulo Coelho: Eleven Minutes/ The Pilgrimage/ The Alchemist/ Brida/
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept/ The Fifth Mountain/ Veronika
Decides to Die/ The Devil and Miss Prym/ The Zahir/ The Witch of
Portobello/ The Winner Stands Alone/ Adultery
56. Far from the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy
57.Thus Spake Zarathustra: Nietzsche (philosophy)
58.The Poisonwood Bible : Barbara Kingsolver
59.The Colour Purple: Alice Walker
60. Girls of Riyadh: Rajaa Alsanea
61.Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte
62.One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
63.Immortality: Milan Kundera
64.Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice,
Persuasion: Jane Austen
65.The Mayor of Casterbridge: Thomas Hardy
66.Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad
67.The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte: Laura Joh Rowland
68.Desperate Remedies: Thomas Hardy
69.The Woman from Browhead: Audrey Howard
70.Shadowed Promises: Vickie Moore
71.The Shadowed Hills: Audrey Howard
72.Candida: Bernard Shaw
73.The Aviator: Ernest K.Gannon
74.Play Misty for Me: Paul J. Gillette
75.Whispers: Belva Plain
76.Dear Enemy: Maxine Barry
77.Shining Threads: Audrey Howard
78.Her Sister’s Keeper: Linda Barlow
79.Love in the Time of Cholera: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
80.Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
81.The Pearl: John Steinbeck
82.Silver: Penny Jordan
83.Wide Sargasso Sea: Jean Rhys
84.Sons and Lovers: D.H. Lawrence
85.Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen
86.Pygmalion: George Bernard Shaw
87.A Girl with a Pearl Earring: Tracy Chevalier
88.Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoevsky
89.Mrs. Dalloway: Virginia Woolf
90.Tess of the d’Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy
91.The Picture of Dorian Grey: Oscar Wilde (anything by him but his novel
is a must-read) Read at least The Importance of Being Earnest as well
92.The Second Sex: Simone de Beauvoir (non-fiction)
93.Frankenstein: Mary Shelley