Here is part of the blog where I am going to list recommended books of different types of genres. I will be sure to post a blog about each of the genres and why I chose these books. I hope they help and let me know if you have any recommendations to add to the list.
Reviewed Books:
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Room by Emma Donoghue
Classic American Novels:
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
As I Lady Dying by William Faulkner
The Call of the Wind & White Fang by John London
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye by Holden Caulfield
Wartime Fiction
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
All Quite on the Western Front by Erich M. Remarque
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephan Crane
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer – Siegfried Sasoon
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Thin Red Line – James Jones
The Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Romantic Fiction
For Romantic Fiction I only named authors since the majority of them have written numerous number of books so here are a few you should look at:
Nora Roberts
Danielle Steele
Julia Quinn
Diana Gabaldon
Stephanie Laurens
Julie Garwood
Classic British Fiction
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Science Fiction
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein