Merry Monteleone's List

1. A Mercy – Toni Morrison
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khalad Hosseini
3. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
4. “...And Ladies of the Club” – Helen Hoover Santmyer
5. Atonement – Ian McEwan
6. Being Committed – Anna Maxted
7. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
8. Catch – 22 – Joseph Heller
9. Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
10. Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
11. Coraline – Neil Gaiman
12. Do They Wear High Heels in Heaven? – Erica Orloff
13. Drowning Ruth – Christina Schwarz
14. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
15. Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
16. Empire Falls – Richard Russo
17. Faust – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
18. Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
19. Firefly Summer – Mauve Binchey
20. Ghosts of Belfast – Stuart Neville
21. God: A Biography – Jack Miles
22. Harvesting the Heart – Jodi Picoult
23. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford
24. Howard’s End – E.M. Forster
25. I Know This Much Is True – Wally Lamb
26. I So Don’t Do Mysteries – Barrie Summy
27. Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
28. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
29. La Storia ; Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience – Jerre Mangione &
Ben Morreale
30. Lady of the Glen – Jennifer Roberson
31. Le Morte D’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
32. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
33. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34. Lucia, Lucia – Adrianna Trigiani
35. Magickeepers – Erica Kirov
36. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
37. Mercy – Jodi Picoult
38. Needful Things – Stephen King
39. Nights of Rain and Stars – Mauve Binchey
40. No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew it Cause Bill
Bailey Ain’t Never Coming Home Again – Edgardo Vega Yunque
41. Nobody’s Fool – Richard Russo
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. Orange Mint and Honey: A Novel – Carlene Brice
44. Paradise – Toni Morrison
45. Redheaded Stepchild – Jaye Wells
46. Sacajawea – Anna Lee Waldo
47. Saint Thomas Aquinas Selected Writings (Heritage Press)
48. Savvy – Ingrid Law
49. Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand
50. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
51. Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia – Cindy Pon
52. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
53. Terms of Endearment – Larry McMurtry
54. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
55. The Beautiful and the Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald
56. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
57. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
58. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
59. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
60. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
61. The Forest House – Marion Zimmer Bradley
62. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
63. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
64. The Green Mile – Stephen King
65. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
66. The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
67. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
68. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
69. The Iliad - Homer
70. The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
71. The Killer Angels – Michael Shaara
72. The Kite Runner – Khalad Hosseini
73. The Lady of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
74. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
75. The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
76. The Lords of Discipline – Pat Conroy
77. The Mermaid Chair – Sue Monk Kidd
78. The Mommy Myth – Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels
79. The Pickwick Paper – Charles Dickens
80. The Ragamuffin Gospel – Brennan Manning
81. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
82. The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi – Jacqueline Park
83. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
84. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
85. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
86. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
87. The Winner – David Baldacci
88. The Woman Next Door – Barbara Delinsky
89. The Woman with the Alabaster Jar – Margaret Starbird
90. The World According to Garp – John Irving
91. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union – Michael Chabon
92. Undaunted Courage – Stephen E. Ambrose
93. Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes
94. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thacheray
95. Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightening – Danette Haworth
96. Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
97. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
98. We Were the Mulvaney’s – Joyce Carol Oates
99. White Oleander – Janet Fitch
100. Why I am a Catholic – Garry Wills