50 books I want to read this year

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A great book can change your life. I am very fond of reading but did not get to do so much of it last year, so this year, I want to change that! My goal is to read all of these books and more, particularly those considered literary classics. Though I may not like a specific literary classic, it usually provides for great, insightful conversations. This list will be continually updated as I finish reading each book.

Fiction

1. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
2. Night of January 16th by Ayn Rand ✔️
3. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ✔️
5. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
7. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
9. The Trial by Franz Kafka
10. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
11. Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
13. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
14. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
15. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
16. Die Again Tomorrow by Kira Peikoff
17. Atonement by Ian McEwan
18. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
19. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
20. The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
21. Candide by Voltaire ✔️
22. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
23. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
24. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
25. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
26. Roads of Destiny by O. Henry
27. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
28. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
29. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
30. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
31. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
32. Tartuffe by Molière
33. Ringan Gilhaize: or The Covenanters by John Galt
34. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
35. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Non-fiction

1. A Companion to Ayn Rand edited by Alan Gotthelf & Gregory Salmieri
2. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand ✔️
3. For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand
4. The DIM Hypothesis by Leonard Peikoff
5. How We Know by Harry Binswanger
6. The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics by David Harriman
7. The Aenid by Virgil
8. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
9. Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand, edited by Leonard Peikoff & Harry Binswanger ✔️
10. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
11. Why Businessmen Need Philosophy edited by Debi Ghate & Richard E. Ralston
12. The Cambridge Companion to Ballet edited by Marion Kant
13. The Prime Movers by Edwin A. Locke
14. The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand
15. The Interpretation of Financial Statements by Benjamin Graham

If you have any recommendations, please comment below! 🙂

This list was last updated 21/11/2017.