Hello 2018

Some of the best books I read in 2017 were classics and books that many people believe should be read by everyone before they die. Due to this I decided to create a reading list challenge for myself for 2018. It features more of the classics, books I bought years ago and haven’t gotten round to reading plus books that my friends believe everyone should read and that they generally loved. I posted across different social media asking for suggestions of books of any genre that people believe to be must-reads and created this list that I will be trying my hardest to finish before the end of the year.

• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• 1984 – George Orwell
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
• The Last Piece of My Heart – Paige Toon
• When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
• The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
• The Bean Tree – Barbara Kingsolver
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
• The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Book of Dust – Philip Pullman
• N’oublier jamais – Michel Bussi
• Maman a tort – Michel Bussi
• The Light Between Oceans – L. Stedman
• Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
• Parsnips, Buttered: How To Win At Modern Life, One Email At A Time – Joe Lycett
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’ – Gail Honeyman
• Attachments – Rainbow Rowell
• Eleanor and Park – Rainbow Rowell
• Holding Up The Universe – Jennifer Niven
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Cien años de soledad – Gabriel García Márquez
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
• And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
• El tiempo entre costuras – María Dueñas
• The Waves – Virginia Woolf
• The Color Purple – Alice Walker
• The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
• Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
• I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
• Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup
• The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
• White Teeth – Zadie Smith
• Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman
• The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
• The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton

Thank you to everyone who suggested something and stay tuned for updates and reviews.