The Reading Lists from Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life : 10 Big Thick Wonderful Books that Could Take You a Whole Summer to Read (But Aren't Beach Books) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Forstyte Saga by John Galsworthy Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope Sophie's Choice by William Styron Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon Underworld by Don DeLillo Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 10 Non Fiction Books That Help Us Understand the World The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbons The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick Lincoln by David Herbert Douglas Silent Spring by Rachel Carson In Cold Blood by Truman Capote How We Die by Sherwin Nuland The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir The Power Broker by Robert Caro 10 Books that will Help a Teenager Feel More Human Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger A Separate Peace by John Knowles Lost In Place by Mark Salzman What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges The World According to Garp by John Irving Bloodbrothers by Richard Price A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers The 10 Books I Would Save in a Fire (If I Could Only Save 10) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Bleak House by Charles Dickens Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Middlemarch by George Eliot Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats The Collected Plays of William Shakespeare The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Ten Books for a Girl Who is Full of Beans (Or Ought to Be) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Julius the Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank The BFG by Ronald Dahl A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans Catherine Known As Birdy by Katherine Paterson The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi Ten Mystery Novels I'd Most Like to Find in a Summer Rental An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. James Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre 10 Books Recommended by a Really Good Elementary School Librarian The View From Saturday by E.L. Koningsburg Frindle by Andrew Clements My Daniel by Pan Conrad The Houdini Box by Brian Selznick Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian No Flying in the House by Betty Brock My Father's Dragon by Ruth Gannett Stiles Habibi by Naomi Nye Mudpies and Other Recipes: A Cookbook for Dolls by Marjorie Winslow The Story of May by Mordecai Gerstein 10 Good Book Club Selections Fraud by Anita Brookner Charming Billy by Alice McDermott The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser Paris Trout by Pete Dexter Eden Close by Anita Shreve 10 Modern Novels that Made Me Proud to be a Writer The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks White Noise by Don DeLillo Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen The French Lieutennant's Woman by John Fowles Falconer by John Cheever The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Information by Martin Amis Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth 10 of the Books My Exceptionally Well-Read Friend Ben says He's Taken the Most From Herzog by Saul Bellow Coming Up for Air by George Orwell Something of an Achievement by Gwyn Griffin Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats Walden by Henry David Thoreau The Moon and a Sixpence by Somerset Maugham Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey Heretics by G.K. Chesterton The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever (With addendum: Now I can't believe I settled for that list. What about William Maxwell's The Folded Leaf , or Elizabeth Bowen's The House in Paris ? ) Books I Just Love to Read, And Always Will Main Street by Sinclair Lewis My Antonia by Willa Cather The Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Group by Mary McCarthy The Blue Swallows by Howard Nemerov (poetry) The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Scoop by Evelyn Waugh Excerpted from How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
