In the spirit of the country's giant book club, here are my lists of the books on this list.
(Context for time read: I was born in 1982 and graduated high school in 2000. I'm an old AF Millennial.)
Read
1984 by George Orwell (High School)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (College)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (High School)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Middle School)
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (High School)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (Childhood)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (College)
Dune by Frank Herbert
Game of Thrones (1-4) by George R.R. Martin
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (2013)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (High School)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (2011, 2018)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hunger Games (1-3) by Suzanne Collins (2013)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (High School)
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (High School, reread)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (College, reread)
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (High School, 2017)
The Twilight Saga (1-4) by Stephanie Meyer (2013)
Watchers by Dean Koontz
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (High School)
Tried But Couldn't Finish
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Reading in 2018
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
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