In the order that they were read and reviewed (which means you can find reviews for ALL these titles on this blog), here are our lists of The Starving Artist’s Recommended Reading. For your convenience, they are broken down into genres.

LITERARY, CLASSICS, AND GENERAL FICTION

• The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
• One hundred years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• White Teeth, Zadie Smith
• Emma, Jane Austen
• A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
• The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
• Old Goriot, Honore de Balzac
• Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon, Tom Stoppard
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
• A Man Could Stand Up– (from the Parade’s End quartet), Ford Maddox Ford
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
• Shirley, Charlotte Bronte
  
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volumes 1 and 2, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
• Villette, Charlotte Bronte
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

CHILDRENS, MIDDLE GRADES, AND YA

• Anne of Green Gables (series), L. M. Montgomery
• Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery
• Rilla of Ingleside, L. M. Montgomery
• The House at Pooh Corner, A. A. Milne
• Pipi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
• Matilda, Roald Dahl
• Harry Potter (series), J. K. Rowling
• My Teacher is an Alien, Bruce Coville
• Tales From the Hood (from Sisters Grimm series), Michael Buckley
• Who Could That Be at This Hour?, Lemony Snicket
• Clarice Bean trilogy, Lauren Child
• The Magical Fruit (from the Doctor Proctor series), Jo Nesbo
• A Snicker of Magic, Natalie Lloyd
• Smile and Sisters, Raina Telgemeier, as well as the Graphix Baby-Sitters club series
• Ruby Redfort (series), Lauren Child
• Ramona (series), Beverly Cleary
• Henry Huggins and the Clubhouse, Beverly Cleary
• Socks, Beverly Cleary
• Frog and Toad (series), Arnold Lobel
• Mouse Tales, Arnold Lobel
• Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary
• The BFG, Roald Dahl
• The Lemonade War, Jacqueline Davies
• Frindle, Andrew Clements
• Half Magic, Edward Eager
• Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls

PICTURE BOOKS

• The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook
• Mouse Tales, Arnold Lobel
• Uncle Elephant, Arnold Lobel
• Grasshopper on the Road, Arnold Lobel
• The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Mo Willems
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
• The Jesus Storybook Bible
• Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
• Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey
• The Book with No Pictures, B.J. Novak

FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION

• The Once and Future King, T. H. White
• The Book of Merlyn, T. H. White
• Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis
• Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
• The Giver, Lois Lowry

NON-FICTION AND HISTORY

• A Night to Remember, Walter Lord
• No Pretty Pictures, Anita Lobel

WRITING AND PUBLISHING

• Self-Printed, Catherine Ryan Howard
• On Writing, Stephen King
• Secrets of Ebook Publishing Success, Mark Coker
• APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch

SELF-HELP AND RELIGION