Addressing the Root Cause of Illness

Clover Kreger

101+ Great Books to While Away the Washout

(Recommendations from a World-Class Reader)

Fiction

Non-Fiction

Semi-Autobiographies

Humourous Semi-Autobiographies

Psychology

Poetry

Plays

Children’s Stories for Adults

Other

Fiction

Allende, Isabel:
The House of the Spirits

Atwood, Margaret:
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Blind Assassin
Oryx and Crake

Austen, Jane:
Pride and Prejudice

Barker, Pat:
Regeneration; Eye in  the Door; The Ghost Road (trilogy)

Beagle, Peter S.:
The Last Unicorn
A Fine and Private Place

Bronte, Emily:
Wuthering Heights

Collins, Wilkie:
The Moonstone
The Woman in White

De la Mare,Walter:
Confessions of a Midget

Dickens, Charles:
David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor:
The Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot
The Possessed/Devils

Du Maurier, Daphne:
The House on the Strand
Rebecca

Faulkner, William:
The Reivers

Finney, Charles G:
The Circus of Dr Lao

Fowles, John:
The Magus
The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Galdós, Benito Pérez:
Misericordia
Fortunada y Jacinta

Hardy, Thomas:
Tess D’Urbeville
Return of the Native

James, P.D.:
Children of Men

Kesey, Ken:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Kirkwood, James:
Good Times, Bad Times

Leavitt, ed. Hart Day:
The Looking Glass Book of Stories

Le Carré, John:
The  Constant Gardener
A Perfect Spy

Lee, Harper:
To Kill a Mockingbird

Llosa, Mario Vargas:
The City and the Dogs

Macaulay, Rose:
The Towers of Trebizon

Márquez, Gabriel García:
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Maughan, W. Somerset:
Of Human Bondage
The Razor’s Edge

McCullers, Carson:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Member of the Wedding

Mitchell, Margaret:
Gone With the Wind

Nabokov, Vladimir:
Lolita

O’Brien, Flann:
The Third Policeman

Pagnol, Marcel:
Jean de Florette

Pasternak, Boris:
Doctor Zhivago

Porter, Catherine Ann:
Ship of Fools

Salinger, J.D.:
Franny and Zooey
Nine Stories
Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters, and Seymour: An Introduction

Scott, Paul:
The Raj Quartet
Staying On
The Bender

Tartt, Donna:
The Little Friend
A Secret History

Toer, Anata P.:
The Glass House

Tolstoy, Leo:
War and Peace
Anna Karenina

Twain, Mark:
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Various Short Stories

Williams, Trevor:
The Collected Stories

Non-Fiction

Attenborough, David:
The Life of Birds
The Life of Mammals

Herriot, James:
All Creatures Great and Small
All Things Bright and Beautiful
All Things Wise and Wonderful

Levi-Strauss, Claude:
Tristes Tropiques

Mead, Margaret:
Any of her books (anthropology)

Mowett, Farley:
The People of the Deer

Van der Post, Lawrence:
The Lost People of the Kalahari
Venture into the Interior

Semi-Autobiographies

Chatwin, Bruce:
The Songlines in Patagonia

De Quincy, Thomas:
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Frame, Janet:
“To the Is-land” trilogy

Heyerdahl, Thor:
Back to Nature
The Kontiki

Munthe, Axel:
The Story of San Michelle

Neruda, Pablo:
Confesio que he vivido

Orwell, George:
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Road to Wigan Pier

Humourous Semi-Autobiographies

Durrell, Gerald:
My Family and Other Animals

Morris, Desmond:
Animal Days

Sapolsky, Robert:
A Primate’s Memoir

Psychology

Greenberg, Joanne:
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Roland, Alan:
In Search of Self in India and Japan - Toward a Cross-Cultural Psychology

Wurtzel, Elizabeth:
More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

Poetry

Winsor and Parry:
The Space Child’s Mother Goose

Milne, A.A.:
When We Were Very Young
Now We Are Six

Plays

O’Neill, Eugene:
Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Alby, Edward:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Bagnold, Enid:
The Chalk Garden

Children’s Stories for Adults

Adams, Richard:
Watership Down

Barrie, J.M.:
Peter Pan

Baum, L. Frank:
The Oz Books (9)

Carroll, Lewis:
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
The Hunting of the Snark

Godden, Rumer:
An Episode of Sparrows
The River
Greengage Summer

Graham, Kenneth:
The Wind in the Willows

Lang, Andrew:
The Coloured Fairytale Book Collection (The Red Fairy Tale Book, etc.)

Milne, A.A.:
Winnie the Pooh
The House at Pooh Corner

Nesbitt, E.:
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Five Children and It
The Railway Children

St Exbury, Anthony:
The Little Prince

Other

Massie, Robert K:
Nicholas and Alexander

Ostrander, Sheila; and Schroeder, Lynn:
Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain

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