The Ultimate Reading List
Eat, Sleep, Read
J,K,L
Title - Author (#of books on list), Awards/Lists
Number in parenthesis beside author’s name indicates number of author's books on list.
An asterisk* beside the author’s name indicates Nobel Prize winner.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 12
Jazz - Toni Morrison*(4) 9
John Henry Days - Colson Whitehead 13
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo 10
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke 6
Journey in the Dark - Martin Flavin 1
Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine 12
Joy Luck Club, The - Amy Tan 10
JR - William Gaddis(2) 2
Jungle, The - Upton Sinclair(2) 9, 10, 12
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami 13
Kate Vaiden - Reynolds Price 4
Keepers of the House, The - Shirley Anne Grau 1
Killer Angels, The - Michael Shaara 1
Kim - Rudyard Kipling 8, 9
King Lear - Shakespeare(2) 12
Known World, The - Edward P. Jones 1, 4, 13
Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence(4) 9, 10
Lamb in his Bosom - Caroline Miller 1
Lantern Slides - Edna O'Brien 5
Last Orders - Graham Swift 7
Late George Apley, The - John Phillips Marquand 1
Laughing Boy - Oliver La Farge 1
Lay of the Land, The - Richard Ford 13
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann 2
Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee*(2) 7
Life of Pi - Yann Martel 7
Light in August - William Faulkner(8) 8, 9, 12
Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel 6
Line of Beauty, The - Alan Hollinghurst 7
Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, The - C.S. Lewis 10
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder 10
Little Prince, The - Antine de Exupery 10
Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov(2) 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry 1, 10
Long Goodbye, The - Raymond Chandler(2) 12
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe(2) 9, 10
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad(4) 8, 9
Lord of the Flies - William Golding(2) 8, 9, 10
Lord of the Rings, The - JRR Tolkien(2) 9, 10
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez(3) 5
Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich 4, 5
Love of a Good Woman, The - Alice Munro(3) 4, 13
Lovely Bones, The - Alice Sebold 6
Lover, The - Marguerite Duras 10
Loving - Henry Green 8
1-Pulitzer Prize
2-National Book Award
3-Pen/Faulkner Award
4-National Book Critic’s Circle Award for Fiction
5-Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
6-Book Sense Book Award
7-Man Booker Prize
8-American Library’s Top 100 Novels
9-Modern Library 100 Best Books
10-Library Journal’s Most Influential Fiction of the 20th Century
11-New York Library’s Books of the Century
12-Harvard Bookstore’s 100 Best Books
13-New York Times Editor’s Choice
