Books To Be Read Immediately (According to Reading Like a Writer) - Pt. 1

1.
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works 4.49 avg rating — 3,440 ratings
2.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,126 ratings
3.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,160 ratings
4.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,022 ratings
4.
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever 4.26 avg rating — 15,587 ratings
6.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 363,645 ratings
7.
The Go-Between
The Go-Between really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13,857 ratings
8.
Le Divorce
Le Divorce 2.96 avg rating — 4,893 ratings
9.
Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating — 170,142 ratings
10.
Selected Stories
Selected Stories 4.27 avg rating — 7,179 ratings
11.
King Lear
King Lear 3.91 avg rating — 232,685 ratings
12.
Rashomon and Other Stories
Rashomon and Other Stories 4.01 avg rating — 11,726 ratings
13.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,026 ratings
14.
The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 18,739 ratings
15.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility 4.09 avg rating — 1,266,139 ratings
15.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 3.54 avg rating — 13,201 ratings
17.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel 4.21 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
18.
Vintage Baldwin
Vintage Baldwin 4.38 avg rating — 278 ratings
19.
Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette 3.85 avg rating — 10,503 ratings
20.
Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories 4.18 avg rating — 6,084 ratings
21.
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode 3.91 avg rating — 521 ratings
22.
Believers: A novella and stories
Believers: A novella and stories 3.88 avg rating — 669 ratings
23.
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 4.27 avg rating — 2,095 ratings
24.
Cosmicomics
Cosmicomics 4.15 avg rating — 20,421 ratings
25.
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories 4.41 avg rating — 22,206 ratings
26.
Cathedral
Cathedral 4.24 avg rating — 38,961 ratings
27.
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 165,229 ratings
28.
A Life in Letters
A Life in Letters 4.30 avg rating — 361 ratings
29.
The Essential Tales of Chekhov
The Essential Tales of Chekhov 4.30 avg rating — 1,744 ratings
30.
Drown
Drown 4.01 avg rating — 36,958 ratings
31.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,456 ratings
32.
Dombey and Son
Dombey and Son 3.96 avg rating — 16,456 ratings
33.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,561 ratings
34.
I Sailed with Magellan
I Sailed with Magellan 4.08 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
35.
The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg
The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg 4.10 avg rating — 747 ratings
36.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch 4.03 avg rating — 174,972 ratings
37.
Searches and Seizures
Searches and Seizures 4.05 avg rating — 152 ratings
38.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,309 ratings
39.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,418 ratings
40.
A Sentimental Education
A Sentimental Education 3.81 avg rating — 24,077 ratings
41.
Desperate Characters
Desperate Characters
by: Paula Fox
3.52 avg rating — 9,440 ratings
42.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating — 194,245 ratings
43.
Paris Stories
Paris Stories 3.95 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
44.
The Recognitions
The Recognitions 4.20 avg rating — 6,162 ratings
45.
The Wonders of the Invisible World
The Wonders of the Invisible World 3.85 avg rating — 403 ratings
46.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 4.02 avg rating — 15,256 ratings
47.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,262 ratings
48.
Doting
Doting 3.79 avg rating — 237 ratings
49.
Loving
Loving 3.52 avg rating — 3,806 ratings
50.
A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast 4.02 avg rating — 162,850 ratings
51.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,022 ratings
52.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.40 avg rating — 227 ratings
53.
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady 3.80 avg rating — 84,057 ratings
54.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw 3.38 avg rating — 172,357 ratings
55.
Pictures from an Institution
Pictures from an Institution 3.46 avg rating — 508 ratings
56.
Angels
Angels 3.98 avg rating — 5,629 ratings
57.
Jesus’ Son
Jesus’ Son 4.13 avg rating — 39,235 ratings
58.
Persian Nights
Persian Nights 3.38 avg rating — 444 ratings
59.
Johnson on Savage: The Life of Mr. Richard Savage
Johnson on Savage: The Life of Mr. Richard Savage 3.25 avg rating — 118 ratings
60.
The Judgment and other stories
The Judgment and other stories 3.84 avg rating — 8,045 ratings
61.
In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 3.93 avg rating — 31,030 ratings
62.
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,300 ratings
63.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,298 ratings
64.
A Perfect Spy
A Perfect Spy 3.99 avg rating — 22,492 ratings
65.
Hope Against Hope: A Memoir
Hope Against Hope: A Memoir 4.37 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
66.
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield 4.14 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
67.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,069,969 ratings
68.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Autumn of the Patriarch 3.87 avg rating — 25,862 ratings
69.
Bright Lights, Big City
Bright Lights, Big City 3.80 avg rating — 36,190 ratings
70.
Bartleby the Scrivener
Bartleby the Scrivener 3.93 avg rating — 72,175 ratings
71.
Benito Cereno
Benito Cereno 3.53 avg rating — 9,676 ratings
72.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,784 ratings
73.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,948 ratings
74.
Lectures on Russian Literature
Lectures on Russian Literature 4.25 avg rating — 2,055 ratings
75.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,197 ratings
76.
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating — 337,461 ratings
77.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating — 48,600 ratings
78.
Wise Blood
Wise Blood 3.82 avg rating — 36,561 ratings
79.
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by: ZZ Packer
3.88 avg rating — 7,777 ratings
80.
Story of a Life: Years of Hope
Story of a Life: Years of Hope 4.43 avg rating — 101 ratings
81.
Freedomland
Freedomland 3.66 avg rating — 3,590 ratings
82.
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 66,161 ratings
83.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,893 ratings
84.
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded 2.76 avg rating — 13,354 ratings
85.
American Pastoral
American Pastoral 3.95 avg rating — 86,073 ratings
86.
Novels & Stories 1959-1962: Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories and Letting Go
Novels & Stories 1959-1962: Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories and Letting Go 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
87.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo 4.06 avg rating — 92,514 ratings
88.
Franny and Zooey
Franny and Zooey 3.96 avg rating — 235,156 ratings
89.
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
The Russian Debutante's Handbook 3.56 avg rating — 7,333 ratings
90.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating — 232,007 ratings
91.
A Ship Made of Paper
A Ship Made of Paper 3.22 avg rating — 1,836 ratings
92.
Mother's Milk (Patrick Melrose, #4)
Mother's Milk (Patrick Melrose, #4) 3.77 avg rating — 6,429 ratings
93.
Some Hope: A Trilogy
Some Hope: A Trilogy 3.79 avg rating — 3,532 ratings
94.
The Man Who Loved Children
The Man Who Loved Children 3.57 avg rating — 4,610 ratings
95.
Flaubert and Madame Bovary
Flaubert and Madame Bovary 4.02 avg rating — 217 ratings
96.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by: Stendhal
3.86 avg rating — 81,050 ratings
97.
Plot it Yourself (Nero Wolfe, #32)
Plot it Yourself (Nero Wolfe, #32)
by: Rex Stout
4.18 avg rating — 2,897 ratings
98.
The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style 4.18 avg rating — 86,241 ratings
99.
A Summons to Memphis
A Summons to Memphis 3.63 avg rating — 6,770 ratings
100.
Sleepwalker in a Fog
Sleepwalker in a Fog 3.94 avg rating — 249 ratings