Number 52 Read the Best Books Ever Written

I've already read many of these books but, since I read most of them under duress in school, I'll revisit them through grown-up eyes and enjoy them at a leisurely pace. I'm going to reserve the right to change out some books that I read on a regular basis with my class, like The Very Hungry Caterpillar (which I will replace with The Invisible Man) and Where the Wild Things Are (which I will replace with Go Tell it on the Mountain) as I see fit.

• 1. 1984 by George Orwell May 28, 2013
• 2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• 3. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• 4. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
• 5. Animal Farm by George Orwell
• 6. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• 7.Asterix and the Golden Sickle by R. Goscinny/A. Uderzo
• 8. Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
• 9. The BFG by Roald Dahl
• 10. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
• 11. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• 12. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
• 13. The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
• 14. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• 15. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• 16. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• 17. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• 18. The Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• 19. The Complete Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
• 20. Crash by J.G. Ballard
• 21. The Crow Road by Iain Banks
• 22. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
• 23. Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
• 24. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• 25. Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
• 26. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• 27. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
• 28. Dubliners by James Joyce
• 29. Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
• 30. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
• 31. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
• 32. Explaining Death to the Dog by Susan Perabo
• 33. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• 34. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
• 35. Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Cupland
• 36. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
• 37. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• 38. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• 39. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• 40. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• 41. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 42. Holes by Louis Sachar
• 43. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
• 44. Kes (A Kestrel for a Knave) by Barry Hines
• 45. Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier
• 46. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• 47. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• 48. The Magic Porridge Pot by Anon
• 49. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• 50. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• 51. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• 52. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• 53. Mr Tickle by Roger Hargreaves
• 54. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• 55. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
• 56. No Logo by Naomi Klein
• 57. Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge
• 58. The Odyssey  The Iliad by Homer
• 59. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• 61. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• 63. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• 64. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
• 65. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• 66. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
• 67. Possession by A.S. Byatt
• 68. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• 69. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• 70. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
• 71. Sarah by J.T. Leroy
• 72. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• 73. Stupid White Men by Michael moore
• 74. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 75. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
•  76. Ulysses by James Joyce
• 77. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
• 78. The Van by Roddy Doyle
• 79. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  
• 80. The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks
• 81. Waterland by Graham Swift
• 82.Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  
• 83. The Wind in the Willows by kenneth Grahame
• 84. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
• 85. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
• 86. The World According to Garp by John Irving
• 87. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte