books

To determine your Literacy Score, use the following rules:
4 points – if you read the book listed
5 points – if you read the book listed and it wasn’t a school assignment
3 points—if you read a different book by the author than the one listed

1. Aesop’s Fables -
2. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe -
3. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - 5
4. Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson -
5. Foundation – Isaac Asimov -
6. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 5
7. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin -
8. The Black Sheep - Honore De Balzac -
9. The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum -
10. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow -
11. The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir -
12. Beowulf - 4
13. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
14. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - 5
15. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury -
16. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck -
17. Pilgrim's Progress -- John Bunyan -4
18. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
19. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs -
20. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote -
21. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John le Carre -
22. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -5
23. My Antonia – Willa Cather -4
24. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes -
25. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler -
26. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer - 4
27. The Awakening – Kate Chopin -4
28. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie -3
29. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
30. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - 4
31. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper -
32. The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane -
33. The Enormous Room – e. e. cummings -
34. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - 5
35. Divine Comedy - Dante - 4
36. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe -
37. The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick -
38. Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
39. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
40. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
41. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
42. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
43. Camille – Alexander Dumas fils. -
44. Middlemarch - George Eliot -
45. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison -
46. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner - 3
47. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding -
48. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - 4
49. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 5
50. The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford -
51. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster -
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
53. Lord of the Flies - William Golding - 4
54. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
55. Riders of the Purple Range – Zane Grey -
56. She – H. Rider Haggard -
57. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett -
58. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
59. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 4
60. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller -
61. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway -
62. Cabbages and Kings - O. Henry -
63. The Odyssey – Homer - 4
64. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
65. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston -
66. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - 4
67. Daisy Miller – Henry James -
68. From Here to Eternity – James Jones -
69. Ulysses - James Joyce -
70. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka - 4
71. Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling -
72. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence -3
73. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 5
74. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
75. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis -
76. The Call of the Wild – Jack London - 4
77. The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer -
78. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann -
79. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham -
80. Selected Short Stories - Guy de Maupassant -
81. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
82. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers - 5
83. Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
84. Tales of the South Pacific - James Michener -
85. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
86. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
87. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
88. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
89. A Good Man Is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor - 4
90. The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy -
91. Animal Farm - George Orwell - 4
92. Selected Short Stories - Edgar Allan Poe - 5
93. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand -
94. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson -
95. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - 5
96. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
97. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott -
98. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley - 4
99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
100. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair -
101. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith -
102. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 3
103. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson -
104. Dracula - Bram Stoker -
105. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe -
106. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift -
107. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
108. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
109. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 5
110. Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope -
111. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain - 3
112. Rabbit, Run – John Updike -
113. The City and the Pillar – Gore Vidal -
114. All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren -
115. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
116. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells - 4
117. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton -
118. Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
119. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde - 4
120. Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder -
121. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf -
122. Germinal - Emile Zola -
123. (bonus) The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams - 4
124. (bonus) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini -
125. (bonus) Number the Stars - Lois Lowry - 3

149 is my score. I want to read everything on this list.