Monday, March 26, 2012

CPT Novel Suggestions - Finding the Right Classic Work of Literature

The following is a list of suggested novels - try them out (at least one chapter) to see if the subject matter, diction, tone, and style works for you!



Your novel must be a minimum of 200 pages in length*
Canadian Authors always welcome! 
Please see me for approval - Happy Reading



Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
In the Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez
A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Emma by Jane Austin
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Wars by Timothy Findlay
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Roots by Alex Haley
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Brave New World by Aldoux Huxley
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Ulysses by James Joyce
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
Wild Sheep by Chase Murakami
1984 by George Orwell
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde


(Source: Inspired by the Harvard Book Store staff's favourite 100 books)