{"id":3,"date":"2007-02-26T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T21:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janice-campbell.com\/2007\/02\/26\/thirty-books-you-wont-forget\/"},"modified":"2017-01-10T23:14:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T23:14:48","slug":"thirty-books-you-wont-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doingwhatmatters.com\/thirty-books-you-wont-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Books You Won’t Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love to read, and on the back of my first business card I share some unforgettable books. Of course, this aren’t all<\/em> my favorites \u2014 remember, the qualification is “unforgettable” \u2014 \u00a0but I was constrained by the size of the card! The books are arranged alphabetically here, but it wouldn’t be hard to put them in order by type \u2014 classic, epic poetry, drama, etc. There’s a lot of good reading here!<\/p>\n

\"30<\/a><\/p>\n

30\u00a0books you won’t forget<\/h1>\n

A Moveable Feast<\/em>– Ernest Hemingway
\nAnimal Farm<\/em>– George Orwell
\nAntigone<\/em>– Sophocles
\nAutobiography of Ben Franklin- <\/em>Benjamin Franklin
\nBeowulf
\nThe Bible
\nCanterbury Tales<\/em>– Chaucer
\nThe Crosswicks Journals<\/em>– Madeleine L’Engle
\nDivine Comedy<\/em>– Dante Alighieri
\nGulliver’s Travels<\/em>– Jonathan Swift
\nHeart of Darkness<\/em>– Joseph Conrad
\nHouse of Mirth<\/em>– Edith Wharton
\nHuckleberry Finn<\/em>– Mark Twain
\nJane Eyre<\/em>– Charlotte Bronte
\nLes Miserables<\/em>– Victor Hugo
\nThe Lord of the Rings<\/em>– J.R.R. Tolkien
\nMere Christianity<\/em>– C.S. Lewis
\nMy Antonia<\/em>– Willa Cather
\nThe Odyssey<\/em>– Homer
\nOliver Twist<\/em>– Charles Dickens
\nParadise Lost<\/em>– John Milton
\nThe Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
\nPride and Prejudice<\/em>– Jane Austen
\nPygmalion<\/em>– George Bernard Shaw
\nRobinson Crusoe<\/em>– Daniel Defoe
\nThe Plays of William Shakespeare
\nSir Gawain Tales
\nThe Three Musketeers<\/em>– Alexandre Dumas
\nWalden<\/em>– Henry David Thoreau
\nWuthering Heights<\/em>– Emily Bronte<\/p>\n

What is on your list of unforgettable books?<\/p>\n

2017 note: I’m not surprised that my first blog post was a book list. Many of these choices would remain if I made a new list, but not all. After all, I’ve kept reading over the last ten years! You’ll find a lot of overlap between this “30 books you won’t forget” reading list and the Excellence in Literature booklist<\/a>, and that’s no coincidence. After all, half the fun of writing a literature curriculum is that you get to assign the very best books you’ve ever read (and a few you may not love but that need to be read).<\/p>\n

If you enjoyed this book list, you might like these two lists from the Excellence in Literature site:<\/p>\n