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Top Ten Tuesday:
Older Books We Shouldn’t Forget
10.02.2012
By Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez / @ZaraAlexis
Because I didn’t want to chisel the list down to only 10, I created two separate lists—one for children and one for adults—and while I tried to keep the adult list small—I just couldn’t!
Children’s Books We Shouldn’t Forget
1. Han Christian Andersen’s Fairytales
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2. The Velveteen Rabbit
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3. The Little Engine that Could
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4. Love You Forever
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5. The Little Prince
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6. The Secret Garden
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7. The Black Stallion
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8. White Fang
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9. The Trumpet and the Swan
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10. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Older Books We Shouldn’t Forget
1. The Holy Bible
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2. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
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3. The Republic by Plato
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4. Odyssey by Homer
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5. Tristan & Iseult by Joseph Bedier
Tristan and Iseault
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6. The Sufferings of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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7. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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8. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
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9. Clarissa by Samuel Ruchardson
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10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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11. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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13. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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14. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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15. Obasan by Joy Kogawa
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16. White Noise by Don Delillo
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17.. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
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18. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
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19. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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20. 1984 by George Orwell
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21. Lolita by Vladimir Nabkov
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22. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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23. Catch-22 by Jospeh Heller
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24. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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25. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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26. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
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27. The Godfather by Mario Puzzo
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28..The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
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29. The Naked Lunch by William Borroughs
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30. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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31. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
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32. Sula by Toni Morrison
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33. Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
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34. Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
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35. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
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36. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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37. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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38. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
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39. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
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40. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
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41. By Grand Central Station, I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
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42. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
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43. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
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44. Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
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45. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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46. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
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47. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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48. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
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49. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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50. Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
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51. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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52. Generation X by Douglas Coupland
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53. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
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54. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
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55. Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai
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56. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
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57. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
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58. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
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59. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
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60. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
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61. Underworld by Don Delillo
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62. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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63. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
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64. The Body Artist by Don Delillo
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65. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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What older books do you think we shouldn’t forget?
Out of this list above, which book is your favourite?
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