1. War and Peace--Tolstoy
2. Sound and the Fury—Faulkner
3. Light in August--Faulkner
4. Absalom! Absalom!--Faulkner
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls--Hemingway
6. Mansfield Park--Austen
7. Northanger Abbey--Austen
8. Lady Susan--Austen
9. The Watsons--Austen
10. Sandition--Austen
11. Fahrenheit 451--Bradbury
12. Brave New World--Huxley
13. Possession--Byatt
14. Oliver Twist--Dickens
15. Tender is the Night--Fitzgerald
16. The Power and the Glory--Greene
17. The End of the Affair--Greene
18. Farewell to Arms--Hemmingway
19. Madame Bovary--Flaubert
20. To Kill a Mockingbird--Lee
21. Main Street--Sinclair
22. One Hundred Years of Solitude—Garcia Marquez
23. The Bluest Eye--Morrison
24. Song of Solomon--Morrison
25. Fire in the Blood--Nemirovsky
26. The Bell Jar--Plat
27. Midnight’s Children--Rushdie
28. Prime of Miss Jean Brodie--Spark
29. Brideshead Revisited--Waugh
30. Fingersmith--Waters
31. Age of Innocence--Wharton
32. Bonfire of the Vanities--Wolfe
33. Mrs. Dalloway--Woolf
34. Cherry Orchard--Checkov
35. Johnny Tremain--Forbes
36. My Brother Sam is Dead--Collier
37. Chocolate War--Collier
39. The Chosen--Potok
40. Life of Pi--Martel
41. Watership Down--Adams
43. Atlas Shrugged--Rand
44. Morning Girl--Dorris
45. Stone Fox--Gardiner
46. Misty of Chincoteague--Henry
47. Babe—King-Smith
48. Betsy-Tacy--Lovelace
49. Incredible Journey—Burnford
51. Humbug Mountain--Fleischman
52. Rascal--Mowat
53. People Could Fly--Hamilton
54. Island of the Blue Dolphins—O’Dell
55. Cricket in Times Square--Seldon
56. Behind the Attic Wall--Cassedey
57. Out of the Dust--Hesse
58. Screwtape Letters--Lewis
59. My Antonia--Cather
60. David Copperfield—Dickens
61. Three Musketeers--Dumas
62. Jungle Book--Kipling
64. Dream of Red Mansions
65. Romance of the 3 Kingdoms
66. Across Five Aprils--Hunt
67. When I Was Puerto Rican--Santiago
68. Murder on the Orient Express--Christie
69. Stepford Wives--Levin
70. Weetzie Bat--Block
71. Color Purple--Walker
72. Prayer for Owen Meany--Irving
73. Breakfast at Tiffany’s--Capote
74. Snow Falling on Cedars--Guterson
75. Habibi--Nye
76. My Life in France--Child
77. Cider with Rosie--Lee
78. Golden Compass--Pullman
79. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan--See
80. Atonement--McEwan
81. Half of a Yellow Sun--Adichie
82. Interpreter of Maladies--Lahiri
83. Six Records of a Floating Life--Fu
84. Master and Margarita--Bulgakhov
85. Dubliners--Joyce
86. Silence--Endo
87. Jia: A Novel of North Korea--kim
88. Breakfast of Champions--Vonnegut
89. Rabbit Run--Updike
90. Confederacy of Dunces--Toole
91. Tropic of Cancer--Miller
92. Under the Volcano--Lowry
93. Tess of D’Ubervilles--Hardy
94. Cold Comfort Farm--Gibbons
95. Clockwork Orange--Burgess
96. We Have Always Lived in the Castle--Jackson
97. Rebecca—du Maurier
98. Jude the Obscure--Hardy
99. 84, Charing Cross Road--Hanff
100. Thank you Jeeves--Wodehouse
6 comments:
We have a few of the same ones. I love Dumas - didn't include him on my list, but Three Musketeers was great - my favorite by him was The Count of Monte Cristo. And Johnny Tremain and To Kill A Mockingbird are two of my altime favorites - if you had A Tree Grows in Brooklyn on this list it'd be my idea of heaven :-)
I'm glad to see all the YA and children's lit on here! Those are some of my favorites.
wow we've alot of books in common. great list
Merry-- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn isn't on the list, because I've actually already read that one! But it is one of my favorites, too.
Amanda--I'm a youth services librarian, so I'm overly aware of my gaps in the 18-and-under cannon.
Thanks Emily!
Great, great list.
And you've got to read To Kill A Mockingbird as soon as you are able. It's story and theme is one that will engross you & touch your heart. At least it did mine. It is my number one all time favorite.
Great list! I am thinking of making my own. Of course a big percentage of books on my to-read list are classics. I like classics and try to read them as much as possible but still I put them off more than I should. And I am WAY behind on all kinds of 21st century books that everyone else seems to have read. Of course another challenge seems a little much. I am already doing 20! But then, when you're doing 20, what's one more? Perhaps I have a challenge addiction. What do you think that's called?
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