ROI Reading List

I have an annoying person that I work with at ROI, we like to call him Joyce.

He's asked me before about which book(s) I think he should read, and he's yet to read it. You see, Joyce has a very different view on life and we don't see eye to eye on just about anything. Again today he asked me for what books I think he should read, and when I asked him about if he had read the previous book I mentioned he told me he has yet to read it.

I told him to read that book first and then get back to me.

He didn't want to do that and wanted more of a list, so I wrote him this -

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/100-most-frequently-challenged-books-1990%E2%80%931999
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009
http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet23
The ALA is a good start for lazy people that don't want to look up books on their own and find their own favorite authors. When in doubt find a literary award that you like and read every single book that has been nominated or won that particular award. Bonus points for not picking Newbury or Caldecot awards. Then, if you really just want to give up and have other people decide which books you should read there's always this list - https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top or you can even go here - https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top here - http://www.listchallenges.com/50-books-to-read-before-you-die or even here - http://www.powells.com/25-books-to-read-before-you-die
here - https://medium.com/@joelapatrick/creating-the-ultimate-list-100-books-to-read-before-you-die-45f1b722b2e5 or if life just hates you, you can go main stream and go through this list - http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/06/living/amazon-100-best-books/ There, now you'll never have to ask me about what you should read ever again.

I do have an actual list of good books that I think people should read, but if you're not going to listen to my suggestions and actually read books that I give you, then there's no hope for you and you might as well just read through these massive lists put together by strangers that mean nothing to me. The reason I put Chaucer first is because depending on how you like him (or not) I give different recommendations to different people. If you love Wife of Bath, but hate Knight, then there's something we can work with, but you've got to read him first before you tackle any more of my list.