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How to Find Your Inner English Major
I absolutely love and adore to read. It's 90% of the reason why I chose to become an English Major when I decided the doctor dream was too much work. I thought, I like to read...hey, why not be an English major. Of course, little did I know the true meaning of being an English major . . .
So here I've complied a list of some of my favorite books for you to read. Since I like so many books, there's no way I can list them all but I can at least list some of my favorites. And unfortunatly, I don't own all the books I like. That would require a small fortune. And there are no history books on the list even though I own a ton . . . so, read history books too. They're sorted out by category, but some of them don't really fit in either so I'm making them fit the best I can . . . I've also bolded the ones I really, really, really like.
Most Recent Book Purchase: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (paperback)
Classics:
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
- Les Misrables by Victor Hugo
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
- Anything by Jane Austen (especially Pride and Predjudice)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Conan Doyle
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Aeneid (and I know that isn't spelled right) by Virgil (sp?)
- The Illiad and the Oddessy by Homer
- The Inferno by Dante
- Shakespeare!
- Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
- The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
- The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by unknown
- The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Children's Books:
- The Narnia Chronicles (especially Prince Caspian) by C.S. Lewis
- Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- The Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon
- The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomory
- The Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Mongomory
- The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling (best children's book series since Narnia IMO)
- The Borrowers by Mary Norton
- Pollyanna by Eleanor H Porter
- Little Lord Flauntroy, A Little Princess and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Little House in the Woods book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- The Sign of the Bever by Elizabeth George Speare
- Kavik the Wolf Dog and Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
- The Great Brain books by John D. Fitzgerald
- The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
- Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
- The Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- The Black Stallion books by Walter Farley
- Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (of course, it's probably out of print now since I had to "pretend" to loose it to get the library's copy)
- The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brian
- The Castaway and the Iceberg Hermit by Arthur Roth
- Meet the Austins ... a Wrinkle in Time, etc. by Madeleine L'Engle
- Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
- Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
- Up Periscope (and others) by Robb White
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- Hatchet by Gary Paulson (I think)
Christian Books: (relics of former beliefs)
- The When Calls the Heart series by Janette Oke
- Grace Livingston Hill romances (very funny)
- The Desires of Your Heart by Donna Fletcher Crow
- Shadows Along the Ice by Judy Baer
- Piercing the Darkness, This Present Darkness and the Cooper Kids series by Frank Peretti
- The House of Winslow by Gilbert Morris
Imagine -- these are only a fraction of the books I own/like/read.