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50 Pieces of Literature I Love

Here is a list of books, plays and stories that I have found compelling (not exhaustive and in no particular order):

  1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.

  2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

  3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

  4. The Odyssey by Homer

  5. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

  6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

  7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  8. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

  9. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

  10. Yellow Raft on Blue Water by Michael Dorris

  11. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

  12. Beloved by Toni Morrison

  13. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  14. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

  15. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

  16.  East of Eden by John Steinbeck

  17. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

  18. Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg

  19. Watership Down by Richard Adams

  20. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

  21. The Narnian Tales by C.S. Lewis

  22. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

  23. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe

  24. Miss Piggle Wiggle series

  25. The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

  26. Beowolf

  27. Oedipus

  28. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

  29. Night by Elie Wiesel

  30. The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

  31. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

  32. Loving Eleanor by Susan Albert

  33. The Swimmer by John Cheever

  34. The Women’s Room by Marilyn French

  35. Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  36. Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis

  37. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

  38. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

  39. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

  40. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  41. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

  42. Cider House Rules by John Irving

  43. Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

  44. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

  45. City of Night by John Rechy

  46. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

  47. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

  48. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

  49. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

  50. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

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