Mr. Farnen’s Recommended Reading
This list is FAR from being conclusive. I wanted to be picky and recommend only my favorites, but I have so many it was hard to choose. All of these are books that, in my opinion, you’ll be sad to finish and glad you read. All are superbly written and shed a little light on the shadowy heart of human experience, which is the purpose of all books that are worth reading.
The Neverending Story – Michael Ende
Harry Potter (all) – J.K. Rowling
The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler – Italo Calvino
Jitterbug Perfume – Tom Robbins
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha – Miguel de Cervantes
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Stand – Stephen King
The Bone People – Keri Hulme
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling – Henry Fielding
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Grand Avenue – Greg Sarris
The Shining – Stephen King
Essays – E.B. White
Amusing Ourselves to Death – Neil Postman
A Box of Matches – Nicholson Baker
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
The Giver – Lois Lowry
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys – Chris Fuhrman
Dreamthorpe – Alexander Smith
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
We the Living – Ayn Rand
The Force of Spirit – Scott Russell Sanders
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis
Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkein
The Metamorphosis, and Other Stories – Franz Kafka
The Odyssey – Homer
Candide – Voltaire
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabakov
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
The Green Mile – Stephen King
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee