The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard by W Somerset Maugham
Thank You Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
The King of Torts by John Grisham
Cover Her Face by PD James
A Taste for Death by PD James
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Possession by AS Byatt
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
Atonement by Ian McEwan
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I have ready 89 of these books! But that's probably far fewer than Will has read. I was surprised that my largest category was science fiction & fantasy. Here's my list:
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Crime (8)
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Family and self (13)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Outsider by Albert Camus
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Love (16)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male by Vladimir Nabokov
Science fiction and fantasy (24)
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
State of the nation (11)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
War and travel (11)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Candide by Voltaire
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut