Now that Thanksgiving is over, it's time to celebrate the start of the Christmas season. For those who are looking to this blog and wondering "Thomas, what can we get you?" It only makes sense that Willett Reads would be dedicated to sharing all things that interest me in literature. Well, if you're one of those kind people who want to send me a book, here is a recommendation list of 100 books ranging from different genres and centuries. I am not too picky on quality of the book, save for my desire that the book not be filled with personal annotations. Beyond that, I hope that this list will help you prepare gifts that I not only want, but can often be found at a reasonable price. Click on to discover the list and where to send any comments regarding this list.
TOP 10
These are the 10 books that I would desire getting over everything else on this list. The list is ranked in order of preference.
1. “Murder on the Nile” – Agatha Christie
2. “Petals on the Wind” – V.C. Andrews
3. “The Underground Railroad” – Colson Whitehead
4. “Forrest Gump” – Winston Groom
5. “My Sweet Audrina” – V.C. Andrews
6. “Ulysses” – James Joyce
7. “Pet Sematary” – Stephen King
8. “The Graduate” – Charles Webb
9. “My Year of Flops” – Nathan Rabin
10. “Addie Pray” – Joe David Brown
ALL THAT OTHER STUFF
The remaining list is an alphabetized order of other books that are worthy of consideration and would make for acceptable gifting.
-“Absalom! Absalom!” – William Faulkner
-“The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Clay” – Michael Chabon
-“American Gods” – Neil Gaiman
-Hans Christian Anderson (Compilation)
-“Animal Farm” – George Orwell
-“Antkind” – Charlie Kaufman
-“Another Country” – James Baldwin
-“Atomic Blonde: The Coldest City” – Anthony Johnston
-“The Awakening” – Kate Chopin
-“Beloved” – Toni Morrison
-“The Big Sleep” – Raymond Chandler
-“Billy Budd” – Herman Melville
-“The Black Swan” – Thomas Mann
-“Blindness” – Jose Saramago
-“Blood Meridian” – Cormac McCarthy
-“The Book Thief” – Markus Zusak
-“Bringing Out the Dead” – Joe Connelly
-The Brothers Grimm (Compilation)
-“The Brothers Karamazov” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-“But He Doesn’t Know the Territory: The Story Behind Meredith Willson’s The Music Man” – Meredith Wilson
-“Call Me By Your Name” – Andre Aciman
-“Casino” – Nicholas Pileggi
-“Cat’s Cradle” – Kurt Vonnegut
-“The Color of Money” – Walter Tevis
-“Coraline” – Neil Gaiman”
-“The Dark Tower: Wind Through the Keyhole” – Stephen King”
-“Disobedience” – Naomi Alderman
-“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” – Philip K. Dick
-“Doctor Sleep” – Stephen King
-“Doctor Zhivago” – Boris Pasternak
-“East of Eden” – John Steinbeck
-“Everything is Illuminated” – Jonathan Safran Foer
-“The Executioners” – John D. MacDonald
-“Fantastic Mr. Fox” – Roald Dahl
-“Far From the Madding Crowd” – Thomas Hardy
-“Finishing the Hat” – Stephen Sondheim
-“Get Shorty” – Elmore Leonard
-“A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That: A Novel” – Lisa Glatt
-“The Goldfinch” – Donna Tartt
-“A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories” – Flannery O’Connor
-“Gulliver’s Travels” – Jonathan Swift
-“The Hate U Give” – Angie Thomas
-“Hearts of Darkness” – Joseph Conrad
-“Heaven” – V.C. Andrews
-“High-Rise” – J.G. Ballard
-“House of Leaves” – Mark Z. Danielewski
-“I Heard You Paint Houses” – Charles Brandt
-“The Intuitionist” – Colson Whitehead
-“The Invention of Hugo Cabret” – Brian Selznick
-“The Invisible Man” – Ralph Ellison
-“Jules and Jim” – Henri-Pierre Roche
-“The Last Temptation of Christ” – Nikos Kazantzakis
-“Leaves of Grass” – Walt Whitman
-“The Lighthouse” – Virginia Woolf
-“Logan’s Run” – William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson
-“Looking for Alaska”’ – John Green
-“Lord Chatterley's Lover” – D.H. Lawrence
-H.P. Lovecraft (Compilation)
-“The Maltese Falcon” – Dashielle Hammet
-“The Man Who Laughs” – Victor Hugo
-“The Martian” – Andy Weir
-“Mary Poppins” – P.L. Travers
-“Matilda” – Roald Dahl
-“The Moviegoer” – Walker Percy
-“Mrs. Dalloway” – Virginia Woolf
-“Naked Lunch” – William S. Burroughs
-“Oil!” – Upton Sinclair
-“The Outsiders” – S.E. Hinton
-“Pale Fire” – Vladimir Nabokov
-“Persepolis” – Marjane Satrapi
-“Planet of the Apes” – Pierre Boulle
-“The Plot Against America” – Philip Roth
-“The Power of the Dog” – Thomas Savage and Annie Proulx
-“Psycho” – Robert Bloch
-“Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created ‘Sunday in the Park with George’” – James Lapine
-“The Queen’s Gambit” – Walter Tevis
-“Raging Bull: My Story” – Jake LaMotta
-“Roots: The Saga of an American Family” – Alex Haley
-“Rosemary’s Baby” – Ira Levin
-“Rumble Fish” – S.E. Hinton
-“Salem’s Lot” – Stephen King
-“Sirens of Titan” – Kurt Vonnegut
-“Sister of the Road” – Ben L. Reitman
-“The Sixth Man: A Memoir” – Andre Iguodala
-“A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments” – David Foster Wallace
-“Terms of Endearment” – Larry McMurtry”
-“The White Album” – Joan Didion
-“The Wolf of Wall Street” – Jordan Belford
-“Wonderstruck’ – Brian Selznick
-“You Were Never Really Here” – Jonathan Ames
If you would like to donate/gift your books to me, please contact my e-mail at WillettReads@gmail.com. If I believe you to be an honest and trustworthy person, I will provide further information in confidential manners. I am also accepting further recommendations to expand the scope of what I read. While this blog doesn't get updated as much as I'd like, I always find joy in reading and feel that it's important to stay open-minded. Enjoy the holidays, and feel free to share what books you'd like to get as a gift.
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