Michelle's List of 100

When I first saw this project, I thought I could easily come up with 100 books for my list. There are so many I've been wanting to read and just haven't gotten around to! Boy, was I wrong. The obvious ones got me to 20 or 30 books. Then I looked at everyone else's lists, quizzed my husband and mom, looked at more lists online, looked at many, many bibliographies...and here's the list I finally came up with:

1. Amber Chronicles, The, Roger Zelazny
2. Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
3. Animal Farm, George Orwell
4. Beloved, Toni Morrison
5. Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
6. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
7. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
8. Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The, Junot Diaz
9. Call of the Wild, The, Jack London
10. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
11. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
12. Catcher in the Rye, The, JD Salinger
13. Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
14. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
15. Charlotte’s Web, EB White
16. Colour of Magic, The, Terry Pratchett
17. Complete Stories and Poems, The, Edgar Allan Poe
18. Confederacy of Dunces, A, John Kennedy Toole
19. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire
20. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A, Mark Twain
21. Consider Plebas, Ian M Banks
22. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The, Mark Haddon
23. Diamond Age, The, Neal Stephenson
24. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Phillip K Dick
25. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
26. Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
27. Drowned Hopes, Donald Westlake
28. Dune, Frank Herbert
29. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
30. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
31. Fable, A, William Faulkner
32. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
33. Farewell to Arms, A, Ernest Hemingway
34. Flatland, Edwin Abbott
35. Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
36. Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
37. Fountainhead, The, Ayn Rand
38. Good Earth, The, Pearl S Buck
39. Great Gatsby, The, F Scott Fitzgerald
40. Gunslinger, The, Stephen King
41. Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A, Dave Eggers
42. Hound of the Baskervilles, The, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
43. House of Seven Gables, The, Nathaniel Hawthorne
44. House of Spirits, The, Isabel Allende
45. Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
46. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
47. Innocent Traitor, Allison Weir
48. Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
49. Inventing Memory, Anne Harris
50. Island of Dr Moreau, The, HG Wells
51. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
52. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
53. Journey to the Center of the Earth, A, Jules Verne
54. Lake of Dead Languages, The, Carol Goodman
55. Lamplighter, The, Maria S Cummins
56. Left Hand of Darkness, The, Ursula K Le Guin
57. Lost Boys, Orson Scott Card
58. Maurice, EM Forster
59. Memory Keeper’s Daughter, The, Kim Edwards
60. Middlemarch, George Eliot
61. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
62. Mistress Shakespeare, Karen Harper
63. Mists of Avalon, The, Marion Zimmer Bradley
64. Moonheart, Charles de Lint
65. Neuromancer, William Gibson
66. Next, Michael Crichton
67. Once and Future King, The, TH White
68. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
69. Orlando, Virginia Woolf
70. Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
71. Other Boleyn Girl, The, Philippa Gregory
72. Pact, The, Jodi Picoult
73. Persuasion, Jane Austen
74. Picture of Dorian Gray, The, Oscar Wilde
75. Pillars of the Earth, The, Ken Follett
76. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A, James Joyce
77. Prayer for Owen Meany, A, John Irving
78. Quiet American, The, Graham Greene
79. Ragtime, EL Doctorow
80. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
81. Sense of the World, A, Jason Roberts
82. Shakespeare: The World as Stage, Bill Bryson
83. Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
84. Summerland, Michael Chabon
85. Tale of Two Cities, A, Charles Dickens
86. Tempest, The, William Shakespeare
87. Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The, Anne Bronte
88. Thousand Splendid Suns, A, Khaled Hosseini
89. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
90. Three Junes, Julia Glass
91. Three Musketeers, The, Alexandre Dumas
92. Time Traveler’s Wife, The, Audrey Nifenegger
93. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
94. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
95. Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A, Betty Smith
96. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
97. Villette, Charlotte Bronte
98. Winthrop Woman, The, Anya Seton
99. Wizard of Oz, The, L Frank Baum
100. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

Whew. I'm looking forward to making my way through this list. I don't know where to start, though!