Here are books that I highly recommend for those quintessential readers out there! Being an English Grad, I have been exposed to every genre. Some of these titles I had to read for classes, but I enjoyed them greatly. I hope that all of you enjoy them as well! Others are just "free reads" that I read on my own, I highly recommend them all!

Fiction
Baricco, Alessandro:
    Silk
Burney, Fanny:
    Evelina
Caroll, Lewis:
    Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Chopin, Kate:
    The Awakening
Fielding, Henry:
    Tom Jones
Fitch, Janet:
    White Oleander
Fitzgerald, F. Scott:
    The Great Gatsby
    Tender is the Night
Hinton, S.E.:
    The Outsiders
Lee, Harper:
    To Kill a Mockingbird
Leroux, Gaston:
    The Phantom of the Opera
Lewis, C.S.:
    The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Lowry, Lois:
    The Giver
Maguire, Gregory:
    Wicked
    Confessions of an Ungly Stepsister
Minton, Jodi Leisure:
    Darkness Brings the Dawn: Erik's Story
Niffenegger, Audrey:
    The TIme Traveler's Wife
Rowling, J.K.:
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Sparks, Nicolas:
    The Notebook
Steinbeck, John:
    Of Mice and Men
Vale, Charlotte Allen
    Night Magic


Asian American Literature/Asian Literature
Golden, Arthur:
    Memoirs of a Geisha
Matsuoka, Takashi:
    Cloud of Sparrows
Ozeki, Ruth:
    My Year of Meats
Kawabata, Yasunari:
    Snow Country
See, Lisa:
    Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Tan, Amy:
    The Joy Luck Club
    The Kitchen God's Wife
Wynd, Oswald:
    The Ginger Tree
Yah, Geling:
    The Lost Daughter of Happiness



Fantasy
Eddings, David:
    Pawn of Prophecy
    Queen of Sorcery
    Magician's Gambit
    Castle of Wizardry
    Enchanter's End Game
Lackey, Mercedes & Larry Dixon
    The Black Gryphon
    The White Gryphon
Salvatore, R.A.
    Homeland
    Exile
    Sojourn
    The Crystal Shard



Plays
Goldsmith, Oliver:
    She Stoops to Conquer
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley:
    The School for Scandal



Poetry
Emerson, Claudia:
    Pinion
H.D.:
    Helen in Egypt
Spenser, Edward:
    The Faerie Queen Book 1
Walcott, Derek:
    Omeros



Biographies
Iwasaki, Mineko
    Geisha, A Life
Masuda, Sayo
    Autobiography of a Geisha





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