Reading List

Many young people have asked me what books they should read. Therefore I have prepared a list of books I recommend :

British:

1.A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

2.David Copperfield

3.Oliver Twist

4.Great Expectations

5. Pickwick Papers

6. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

7. Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

8. Wuthering Heights by Emile Bronte

9. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

10. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

11. 1984 by George Orwell

12. Animal Farm

13. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

14. Short stories by Maugham

15. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

16. Treasure Island

17. War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

18. Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

19. Beau Geste by P.C. Wren

20. Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves

21. Kim by Rudyard Kipling

22. The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot

23. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

24. The Sign of the Four

25. The Valley of Fear

26. Short stories of Sherlock Holmes 

27. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

28. Tess by Thomas Hardy

29. Waverley by Walter Scott

30. Ivanhoe

American:

1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

2.Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

3. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

4. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

5. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

6. Arrowsmith

7. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 

8. For Whom the Bell Tolls

9. The Old Man and the Sea

10. The Sun Also Rises

11. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

13. Of Mice and Men

14. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

15. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

16. Lord Jim

17. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

18. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

19. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe

20. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

21. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

22. The Quiet American by Graham Greene 

23. Our Man in Havana

24. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown 

25. Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

26. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

27. From Here to Eternity by James Jones

28. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper

French:

1. Father Goriot by Honore Balzac

2. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

3. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

4. The Three Musketeers

5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

6. Short stories of Maupassant

7. Candide by Voltaire

8. Zadig

9. Germinal by Emil Zola

10. Twenty thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

German:

1. Robbers by Schiller

2. The Sorrows of the Young Werther by Goethe

3. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

4. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

5. Poems of Heinrich Heine

Russian:

1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

2. Anna Karenina

3 Resurrection

4. Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

5. Mother by Maxim Gorki

6. Short Stories of Gorki

7. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky 

8. Brothers Karamazov

9. Dead Souls by Gogol 

!0. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

11. Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov

12. Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

Italian:

1. Deacameron by Boccaccio

2. The Prince by Machiavelli

Spanish:

1. Don Quixote by Cervantes

Greek:

1. Iliad

2. Odyssey

Norwegian:

1. Doll's House by Ibsen

Czech:

1. The Trial by Kafka

Hungarian:

1. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Chinese:

1. The Dream of the Red Chamber

2. Stories by Lu Hsun

South African:

1. Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Columbian:

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Persian:

1. Rubaiyats of Omar Khayyam

2. Masnavi of Rumi

3. Akbarnama by Abul Fazl

Turkish:

1. Tuzuk-e-Babri by Babar

Sanskrit:

1. Abhigyan Shakutalam by Kalidas

2. Meghadoot

3.Mahabharat by Ved Vyas

4.Ramayan by Valmiki

Hindi:

1. Godan by Premchand

2.Short stories of Premchand

3. Ramcharitmanas by Tulsidas

Tamil:

1. Silapathiharam by Ilango

2.. Poems of Subramania Bharati

Bengali:

1. Shrikant by Sharat Chand Chattopadhyaya

2. Shesh Prashna

3. Palli Samaj

4. Devdas

5.Brahman ki Beti

6. Pather Davi

7 Anand Math by Bankim Chand Chattopadhyaya

8.Gitanjali by Tagore

Urdu:

1. Stories by Saadat Hasan Khan Manto

2. Diwan of Ghalib

3. Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz

The above is my own select list, though others may have other choices