Friday, August 20, 2010

Alyssa Sue's 100


1. Adams, Douglas – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2. Aguirre, Ann – Grimspace
3. Alexander, Caroline – The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
4. Allende, Isabel – Zorro
5. Anthony, Piers – Split Infinity
6. Ashenburg, Katherine - The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
7. Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid's Tale
8. Austen, Jane & Grahame-Smith, Seth – Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
9. Barry, John – The Great Influenza: The Story of the Greatest Pandemic in History
10. Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451
11. Brooks, Polly Schoyer – Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc
12. Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
13. Burgess, Anthony – A Clockwork Orange
14. Card, Orson Scott – Ender's Game
15. Canavan, Trudi – The High Lord
16. Canavan, Trudi – Voice of the Gods
17. Carroll, Lewis C – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
18. Cashore, Kristin – Fire
19. Cashore, Kristin – Bitterblue
20. Chabon, Michael – A Yiddish Policeman's Reunion
21. Collodi, Carlo – The Adventures of Pinnochio
22. Cooke, Alistair – Alistair Cooke's America
23. Cormier, Robert – The Chocolate War
24. Cornwell, John – Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact
25. Dante – The Inferno
26. de Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
27. Dick, Philip K. - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
28. Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist
29. Dostoevski, Feodor – Crime and Punishment
30. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – A Study in Scarlet
31. Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
32. Elgin, Duane – Voluntary Simplicity
33. Ellis, Joseph J – Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
34. Evans, Jimmie Ruth – Flamingo Fatale
35. Franklin, Benjamin – Benjamin Franklin
36. Fulda, Jennette – Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir
37. Gaardner, Jostein - Sophie's World
38. Gaiman, Neil – Neverwhere
39. Galland, Antony – Arabian Nights
40. Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha
41. Gould, Steven – Jumper
42. Grisham, John – The Client
43. Hamilton, Edith – Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
44. Heller, Joseph – Catch 22
45. Hemingway, Ernst – The Old Man and the Sea
46. Hosseini, Khaled – The Kite Runner
47. Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
48. Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables
49. Keneally, Thomas – Schindler's List
50. Kidder, Tracy – Mountains Beyond Mountains
51. Larssonont, Stieg – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
52. Lewis, CS – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
53. Livio, Mario – The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, The World's Most Astonishing Number
54. Loewen, James W – Lies My Teacher Told Me
55. Marsh, Ngaio – Death of a Fool
56. Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
57. Michod, Alex – The White City
58. Mitchell, Margaret – Gone With the Wind
59. Mortenson, Greg – Three Cups of Tea
60. Nabakov, Vladmir – Lolita
61. Orwell, George – 1984
62. Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
63. Poe, Edgar Allen (selection of works – haven't decided which ones yet)
64. Pullman, Philip – The Golden Compass
65. Pyle, Howard – Robin Hood
66. Rice, Anne – Interview with a Vampire
67. Rostand, Edmond – Cyrano de Bergerac
68. Rothfuss, Patrick – The Name of the Wind
69. Shakespeare, William – The Merry Wives of Windsor
70. Shakespeare, William – The Taming of the Shrew
71. Sheff, David – Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
72. Singh, Simon – Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
73. Spiegelman, Art – Maus I & II
74. Silverstein, Shel – The Giving Tree, Falling Up, Where the Sidewalk Ends
75. Spyri, Johanna – Heidi
76. Stampf, Gunter – Interview with a Cannibal: The Secret Life of the Monster of Rotenburg
77. Steketee, Gail – Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
78. Stevenson, Robert Louis – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
79. Stewart, Sean – Nobody's Son
80. Stockett, Kathryn – The Help
81. Stoker, Bram – Dracula
82. Stoppard, Tom – Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead
83. Stowe, Harriet Becher – Uncle Tom's Cabin
84. Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver's Travels
85. Troost, J Maarten – The Sex Life of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
86. Troost, J Maarten – Lost on Planet China: One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation
87. Troost, J Maarten – Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuata
88. Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
89. Twain, Mark – The Prince and the Pauper
90. Verne, Jules – Around the World in 80 Days
91. Verne, Jules – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
92. Verne, Jules – Journey to the Center of the Earth
93. Washington, Harriet A – Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
94. Weeks, Brent – The Way of Shadows
95. Wells, HG – The Time Machine
96. Wiencek, Henry – An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America
97. Wilde, Oscar – The Importance of Being Earnest
98. Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
99. Young, Paul – The Shack
100. Zinsser, William Knowlton – On Writing Well

2 comments:

Linda said...

Great list. I see some overlap with mine!

Minerva said...

Thanks for including me: I'm thrilled to share a list with Douglas Adams — I love the Hitchhiker's Guide!
Harriet W.