book list

Feel free to share your own favourites as a comment, or make your own book list and tag/link me in it!

I’m a little tired of giving the same exact answer to the question ‘What’s your favourite book?” all the time, so I wanted to list more favourite books off the top my head. This list is entirely for myself to keep (because I’m obsessed with making lists, pointless or otherwise) but I also thought I would share because these are all (in my opinion) life-changing, amazing books.

All time favourite book that I worship:

It’s a toss between:

Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger (speaking of Salinger, Franny and Zooey is also wonderful)

and

The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath (she’s my soul mate)

Other favourites:

Lullabies for Little Criminals- Heather O’Neill

A Million Little Pieces- James Frey

Everything Matters! -Ron Currie Jr

The Elegance of the Hedhehog- Muriel Barbery

Brave New World- Aldous Huxley

Prozac Nation- Elizabeth Wurtzel (I love the film version as well)

Girl, Interrupted- Susanna Kaysen (I love the film version as well)

All Chuck Palakniuk books and especially Fight Club, of course (love the film version as well)

Blindness- José Saramago (His books are amazing) (I love the film version as well)

Breakfast on Pluto- Patrick McCabe (I love the film version as well)

The Virgin Suicides- Jeffrey Eugenides (I love the film version as well)

Atonement- Ian McEwan (I love the film version as well)

Angela’s Ashes- Frank McCourt (I love the film version as well)

Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky

All Paulo Coelho books but especially Veronika Decides to Die (Veronika Decide Morrer)

Story of My Life- Jay McInerney

Series off the top of my head:

Are things like the Harry Potter series and Lord of the Rings too obvious? In that case, The Hunger Games series (which is going mainstream, and I don’t wanna sound like a hipster but…it’s going mainstream FAST) and A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, for Game of Thrones fans and fantasy lovers!

I usually seem togo for deep, depressing and dark books as I’m not usually a sap nor religious so I’m embarrassed to admit I love Nicholas Sparks novels but I loved

Dear John by Nicolas Sparks….but who am I kidding, his books are good (yet cheesy).

Books that made my childhood and shaped my entire life, and that I think of as adult books, and still think of to this day:

My Sweet-Orange Tree (O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima) by José Mauro de Vasconcelos, all his books are AMAZING.

and

The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint Exupéry

…Also, who could forget classics like Lolita and

Anna Karenina and

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (all her books are amazing) and

Jane Eyre and

Lord of Flies?

….And much, MUCH more but these were off the top of my head. Sorry it went on longer than I expected. Sigh, I LOVE books.