Keeping Up With The Penguins started as a simple idea: put together a list of all the books I’ve never read (that I really should), and read my way through them one by one. The project has now grown way past that starting point, but here’s where it all began. Click through the links to check out my reviews of each title.
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Dressmaker – Rosalie Ham
- A Game Of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
- Divergent – Veronica Roth
- The Fault In Our Stars – John Green
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
- Still Alice – Lisa Genova
- The Husband’s Secret – Liane Moriarty
- The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
- The One Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
- The Lake House – Kate Morton
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- The Girl On The Train – Paula Hawkins
- Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell
- The Maze Runner – James Dashner
- The Happiest Refugee – Ahn Do
- Paper Towns – John Green
- The Martian – Andy Weir
- If I Stay – Gayle Forman
- The Colour Of Magic – Terry Pratchett
- Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
- We Were Liars – E. Lockhart
- A Short History Of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
- Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
- On The Road – Jack Kerouac
- Yes Please – Amy Poehler
- Girl Online – Zoe Sugg
- A Brief History Of Time – Stephen Hawking
- The Brain That Changes Itself – Norman Doidge
- American Sniper – Chris Kyle
- Wild – Cheryl Strayed
- The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
- Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
- Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
- The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne
- Emma – Jane Austen
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- Sybil – Benjamin Disraeli
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
- Vanity Fair – William Thackeray
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
- Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Picture Of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- Kim – Rudyard Kipling
- The Call Of The Wild – Jack London
- The Golden Bowl – Henry James
- The Wind In The Willows – Kenneth Grahame
- The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
- The Age Of Innocence – Edith Wharton
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- A Passage To India – EM Forster
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – Anita Loos
- Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
- Lolly Willowes – Sylvia Townsend
- The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
- As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
- Nineteen Nineteen – John Dos Passos
- Tropic Of Cancer – Henry Miller
- Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
- Murphy – Samuel Beckett
- The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
- Party Going – Henry Green
- The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- All The King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
- The Heat Of The Day – Elizabeth Bowen
- The End Of The Affair – Graham Greene
- The Catcher In The Rye – JD Salinger
- The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
- Lord Of The Flies – William Golding
- The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
- A Single Man – Christopher Isherwood
- In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
- Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
- An Artist Of The Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Amongst Women – John McGahern
- True History Of The Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
- She Came To Stay – Simone De Beauvoir
- The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
- My Brilliant Career – Miles Franklin
- Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- The White Mouse – Nancy Wake
- The Narrow Road To The Deep North – Richard Flanagan
- The Turn Of The Screw – Henry James
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover – DH Lawrence
Psst: if you’d prefer, you can check out my reviews organised by author surname here, by book title here, and by category here.
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