Classic Reading

Classic Reading

This is a selection of books featured weekly in The Daily Express & The Sunday Express where famous people select their favourite 6 books.

1984 — George Orwell

A Moveable Feast — Ernest Hemingway

Animal Farm — George Orwell

Anna Karenina — L N Tolstoy

As far as My Feet Will Carry Me — J M Bauer

Birdsong — Sebastian Faulkes

Blandings Castle and Elsewhere — P.G Wodehouse

Bleak House — Charles Dickens

Bonfire of the Vanities — Tom Wolfe

Boudica Dreaming the Eagle — Manda Scott

Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh

Butcher Boy — Patrick McCabe

Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer

Carry On, Jeeves — P.G.Wodehouse

Catch 22 — Joseph Heller

Catcher in the Rye — J.D Salinger

Cider With Rosie — Laurie Lee

Code of the Woosters — P.G. Wodehouse

Cold Comfort Farm — Stella Gibbons

Colour Purple — Alice Walker

Conservationist — Nadine Gordimer

Corrections — Jonathan Franzen

Cranford Chronicles — Elizabeth Gaskell

Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Death of Faith — Donna Leon

Diary of a Nobody — George Grossmith

Disgrace — J M Coetzee

Down and Out in Paris and London — George Orwell

Emma — Jane Austen

Empire of the Sun — J G Ballard

Empire — Niall Ferguson

End of the Affair — Graham Greene

Enduring Love — Ian McEwan

Father's and Sons — Ivan Turgenev

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Hunter S Thompson

Fermat's Last Theorem — Simon Singh

Fever Pitch — Nick Hornby

For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway

Full Moon — P.G.Wodehouse

Germinal — Emile Zola

Ghost Road — Pat Barker

Girl at the Lion D'Or — Sebastian Faulks

Gone With the Wind — Margaret Mitchell

Good Soldier — Ford Madox Ford

Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck

Great Deliverance — Elizabeth George

Great Expectations — Charles Dickens

Great Gatsby — Scott Fitzgerald

Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad

Hiding Place — Corrie Ten Boom

Hobbit — J R R Tolien

Hound of the Baskervilles — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Iliad — Homer

In the Skin of a Lion — Michael Ondaajte

Inimitable Jeeves — P.G.Wodehouse

Jane Eyre — Charlotte Bronte

Jonathan Livingston Seagull — Richard Bach

Just William — Richmal Crompton

Keep the Aspidestra Flying — George Orwell

Kidnapped — Robert Stevenson

Kim — Rudyard Kipling

Lady Chatterley's Lover — D.H.Lawrence

Lady in the Lake — Raymond Chandler

Lady's Maid — Margaret Forster

Last Enemy — Richard Hillary

Leave it to Psmith — P. G .Wodehouse

Liar — Stephen Fry

Long Goodbye — Raymond Chandler

Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Madam Bovary — Gustave Flaubert

Magus — John Fowles

Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat — Oliver Sachs

Mansfield Park — Jane Austen

Master and Commander — Patrick O'Brian

Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas Hardy

Midnight's Children — Salman Rushdie

Misfits — Arthur Miller

Mists of Avalon — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Nanda Devi; A Journey to the Last Sanctuary — Hugh Thomson

Nicholas Nickleby — Charles Dickens

No Country for Old Men — Cormac McCarthy

Of Human Bondage — Somerset Maugham

Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck

Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemmingway

Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens

One Hundred Years of Solitude — Garcia Gabriel Marquez

Oscar and Lucinda — Peter Carey

Outsider — Albert Camus

Passage to India — E M Forster

Perfume — Patrick Suskind

Pickwick Papers — Charles Dickens

Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde

Porterhouse Blue — Tom Sharpe

Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner — James Hogg

Radetzky March — Philip Roth

Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro

Right Ho Jeeves — P.G Wodehouse

Scoop — Evelyn Waugh

Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Ship of the Line — C S Forester

Short History of Tractors in Ukranian — Marina Lewycka

Siege of Krishnapur — J G Farrell

Silver Pigs — Lindsey Davis

Steppenwolf — Herman Hesse

Sunbird — Wilbur Smith

Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens

Therese Raquin — Emile Zola

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — John Le Carre

To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee

Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson

Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera

Valley of the Dolls — Jacqueline Susann

Very Good, Jeeves — P.G.Wodehouse

Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys

Woman in White — Wilkie Collins

Women in Love — D.H Lawrence

World According to Clarkson — Jeremy Clarkson

World of Pooh Collection — A A Milne

Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte