- Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
- Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
- Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol
- Always Looking up - Michael J. Fox
- Beautiful Boy - David Sheff
- Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Birds - Tarjei Vesaas
- Bostonians - Henry James
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevski
- The Call of the Wild – Jack London
- Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Carrie - Stephen King
- A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
- Columbine - Dave Cullen
- The Commoner - John Burnham Schwartz
- The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- A Death In The Family - James Agee
- Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
- The Dollmaker - Harriette Arnow
- East of Edan - John Stienbeck
- The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
- The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
- The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
- Fieldwork - Mischa Berlinski
- Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
- Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- The Gathering - Anne Enright
- Ghostwalk - Rebecca Stott
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- Go Down Together - Jeff Guinn
- The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
- The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
- A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
- The Help -
- The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
- Howards End – E.M. Forster
- The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
- I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
- The Iceman -
- The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
- The Indifferent Stars Above - Daniel James Brown
- Jesus Land - Julie Scheeres
- Justine - Lawrence Durrell
- The Kindly Ones - Jonathan Littell
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- The Known World - Edward P. Jones
- The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
- The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
- The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- The Luxe - Anna Godberson
- Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
- Mercy - Jodi Picoult
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
- Moloka'i - Alan Brennert
- The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
- No Angels - Penny Vincenzi
- North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
- Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- Olive Kitteridge - Elisabeth Strout
- The Once and Future King – T.H. White
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
- The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
- The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
- Out by
- Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
- Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
- The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
- The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
- The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
- Pope Joan - Donna Cross
- The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emmuska Orczy
- Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
- The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
- The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
- Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
- Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
- A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor
- The Tenant of Wildfield Hall - Anne Bronte
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
- A Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson
- Villette - Charlotte Bronte
- We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
- Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- The Women - T.C. Boyle
- The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Whitney's List
My 100 will be a hodge podge of sorts being a mix of Pulitzer Prize Winners, the daunting 1001 Books List, classics and books off the tbr stack.
5 comments:
We have a lot of the same books. :)
Want my advice, read all of philippa gregory's tudor series. they are excellent. Margaret George's Henry VIII is good, comprhensive but is think enough to kill someone with and can become a tad repetitive
Yeah, I've knocked myself in the head a few times with Margaret George's Memoirs of Cleopatra, but I borrowed Henry VIII from a friend some time ago and probably need to return it soon. As for Philippa Gregory I've actually never read anything by her and thought I'd test the waters with The Other Boleyn Girl, I've heard great things about it!
OBG is the book she's famous for, but my favourite is the queen's fool. It takes place during Mary and at the beg of Elizabeth's reign, but is told from a made up characters pov, who is a secret jew. Its my favourite of the whole series.
One thing about philippa gregory is that the books aren't in chronological order. The queens fool is her second book in the series, but after that was written she went back and started to tell the stories of all the wives of henry VIII including that of Kathryn of Aragon (before anne shows up).
If you like that era you'll love her books.
You have a lot of books I *don't* have on my list - I'm excited to hear what you think of them to see if I want to read them too :)
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