For a classic, we could choose from Marc and Angel's "30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Their 30th Birthday" (which includes For Whom the Bell Tolls). How many have you read?
Our suggestions included (* the ones we chose):
- Amy and Isabelle—Elizabeth Strout (HL)
- The Art of Fielding—Chad Harbach (HL)*
- Blood Meridian—Cormac McCarthy (CY)
- The Bluest Eye—Toni Morrison (IS)
- The Cat’s Table—Michael Ondaatje (JC)
- Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness—Alexandra Fuller (KP)
- Cold Mountain—Charles Frazier (PP)
- Damned Nations—Samantha Nutt (IS)*
- Dispatches From the Edge—Anderson Cooper (PP)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls—Ernest Hemingway (IS)*
- Freedom—Jonathan Franzen (HL)
- Game of Thrones—George R. R. Martin (CY)
- Half Blood Blues—Esi Edugyan (DC)
- The Happiness Project—Gretchen Rubin (IS)
- Hunger—Knut Hamson (IS)*
- Let the Great World Spin—Colum McCann (HC)
- Moby Dick—Herman Melville (HL)
- Monday Mornings—Sanjay Gupta (PP)
- Predictably Irrational—Dan Ariely (CY)
- Prisoner of Tehran—Marina Nehmat (IS)
- The Professor and the Madman—Simon Winchester (PP)
- Quiet—Susan Cain (DC)*
- Sense of an Ending—Julian Barnes (DC)
- State of Wonder—Ann Patchett (HL)
- The Story of a Beautiful Girl—Rachel Simon (HC)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow—Daniel Kahneman (CY)
- Unaccustomed Earth—Jhumpa Lahiri (JC)
- The Vagrants—Yiyun Li (JC)
- What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite—David DiSalvo (CY)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Ann Frank—Nathan Eglander (IS)
- Wolf Hall—Hilary Mantel (DC)*
- 1984—George Orwell (CY)
