Or: If You Only Read Three Books This Year I’d Hope At Least One Of Them Is On This List*

arranged alphabetically by author, at least in theory

• Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  On the scale of African literature, this is the opposite of Heart of Darkness 
• Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya
  About a month ago I had a dream about this book. I hadn’t read this book in six years and I had a dream about it. 
• The Handmaid’s Tale - Margret Atwood
  I love dystopias. I love stories with ladies. This is both. 
• Psyche in a Dress - Francesca Lia Block
  Fran is my hot water bottle writer, someone to read when you just want to feel better.
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
  ‘no, really, this is not a love story, but it is a story about love’ (x)
• The Stranger - Albert Camus
  It’s the end, but isn’t it always?
• Ender’s Game - Orison Scott Card
  Winner of the “Book that introduces a series with the most potential only to fall flat” Award
• Alice in Wonderland + Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
  but have you read them? 
• The Awakening - Kate Chopin 
  smells like: salt spray and lavender
• The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  “It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.” - Gilman
• Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
  THIS FINGER REMEMBERED YOU
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
  “the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race.” - William Kennedy (x)
• 1984 -  George Orwell
  There is so much more than Big Brother here
• Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
  Y’all know about my undying love for Fincher and everything, but this is something you’re really just going to have to trust me on when I say to read the book. 
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  I’ll say it again: Sylvia Plath
• Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
  You’re waiting for a train…
• The Picture of Dorain Gray - Oscar Wilde
  …it’s oscar fucking wilde what else do you want from me

*Interestingly enough, I am the founding member of Helping People To Read More Than Three Books In A Year Because Really Society. We’ve got badges!