Mya Barrett

What a wonderful idea, to create a place where people could share the books they want to read. Since all the top lists of books have been coming out this year, I've been collecting titles in my head. Some are heavy duty, some or light, some are angsty, some are romance (hey, we all need a little fun read every so often). Here's my list, for better or for worse:

1. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
2. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
3. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
4. Lady Susan - Jane Austen
5. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
6. Persuasion - Jane Austen
7. Northanger Abby - Jane Austen
8. The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
9. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
10. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
12. A Death in the Family - James Agee
13. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
14. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carre
15. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
17. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
18. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
19. These Thirteen - William Faulkner
20. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
21. Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
22. The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
23. Loving - Henry Green
24. Monsieur Monde Vanishes - Georges Simenon
25. The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
26. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
27. The Woman In Black: A Ghost Story - Susan Hill
28. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
29. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
30. Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
31. Villette - Charlotte Bronte
32. The Professor - Charlotte Bronte
33. Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
34. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
35. An Old Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott
36. The Inheritance - Louisa May Alcott
37. Louisa May Alcott Collected Thrillers - Louisa May Alcott
38. Cashel Byron’s Profession - George Bernard Shaw
39. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
40. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
41. The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
42. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
43. The Mousetrap - Agatha Christie
44. Letters From the Earth - Mark Twain
45. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today - Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
46. The Seance - John Harwood
47. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
48. The Portrait of Mr. W.H. - Oscar Wilde
49. The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
50. The Time Machine - H.G. Welles
51. Mr. Britling Sees It Through - H.G. Welles
52. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
53. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
54. Special Topics in Calamity Psychics - Marisha Pessel
55. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
56. Lady Chatterly’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
57. Under the Net - Irish Murdoch
58. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
59. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
60. Middlemarch - George Eliot
61. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
62. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
63. Katherine - Anya Seton
64. Kane and Able - Jeffrey Archer
65. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
66. Dubliners - James Joyce
67. The Secret History - Donna Tart
68. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
69. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
70. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
71. London Fields - Martin Amis
72. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
73. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
74. The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt
75. Still Life - A.S. Byatt
76. Babel Tower - A.S. Byatt
77. The Whistling Woman - A.S. Byatt
78. Lorna Doone - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
79. A Town Like Alice (“The Legacy” U.S. Title) - Nevil Shute
80. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
81. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
82. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
83. Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks
84. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
85. The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
86. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
87. Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
88. The Touchstone - Edith Wharton
89. Summer - Edith Wharton
90. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
91. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
92. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
93. The American - Henry James
94. Nine Coaches Waiting - Mary Stewart
95. A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
96. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E. M. Forster
97. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
98. A Girl of Limberlost - Gene Stratton-Porter
99. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
100. Ivanhoe - Walter Scott

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