Suggestions

Here’s a list of books I have always viewed as “popular” (or “raved about”) that I’ve already read:

* “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
* ” The Eyre Affair” by Jasper Fforde
* “Harry Potter and the Scorcerer’s Stone” by J. K. Rowling
* “Moloka’i” by Alan Brennert
* “Inkheart” by Cornelia Funke
* “Gone With the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
* “Middlemarch” by George Eliot
* “Reading Lolita in Tehran” by Azar Nafisi
* “A Series of Unfortunate Events” series by Lemony Snicket (I’ve read the first 3 books)
* “Good Grief” by Lolly Winston
* “The Last Crossing” by Guy Vanderhaeghe
* “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and Demons” by Dan Brown
* “Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging” by Louise Rennison
* “The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant
* “The Pilot’s Wife” by Anita Shreve
* “So Many Books, So Little Time” by Sara Nelson
* “Ex Libris” by Anne Fadiman
* “The Queen’s Fool” and “The Virgin’s Lover” and “The Constant Princess” and “The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Gregory
* “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” by C. S. Lewis
* “The Tale of Despereaux” by Katie DiCamillo
* “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne
* “The Notebook” by Nicholas Sparks
* “The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler
* “Tending Roses” by Lisa Wingate
* “How Reading Changed My Life” by Anna Quindlen
* “Blackberry Wine” by Joanne Harris
* “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach
* “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
* “The Purpose-Driven Life” by Rick Warren
* The “Griffin and Sabine” series by Nick Bantock
* “Under the Tuscan Sun” by Frances Mayes
* “Unless” by Carol Shields
* “Girls In Trouble” by Caroline Leavitt
* “The Glass Palace” by Amitav Ghosh
* “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves” by Lynn Truss
* “Crow Lake” by Mary Lawson
* “Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons” by Lorna Landvik
* “The Bookseller of Kabul” by Asne Seierstad
* “The Tale of Despereaux” by Katie DiCamillo
* “Twilight” / “New Moon” / “Eclipse” / “Breaking Dawn” by Stephenie Meyer
* “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield
* “Same Kind of Different As Me” by Ron Hall and Denver Moore

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I’m sure there are more, but this is just the list I can come up with from reading through my past years’ reading logs.

You could also check out this list that I stumbled across online:

Entertainment Weekly’s “New Classics” [1983-2008] list