Ashley's 100

My list of 100 'missing' books, to remedy the fact that I'm almost a literary failure: (*= books I own)

1. The Return of the King- J.R.R. Tolkien

2. Harriet the Spy- Louise Fitzhugh*

3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey*

4. White Fang- Jack London*

5. The Illiad- Homer

6. The Divine Comedy- Dante*

7. On the Road- Jack Kerouac

8. Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte*

9. Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen* (or any Austen minus Pride and Prejudice)

10. Frankenstein- Mary Shelley*

11. The Mists of Avalon- Marion Zimmer Bradley

12. The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood*

13. The Shining- Stephen King

14. A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess 

15. American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis

16. Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes

17. Ramona Quimby, Age 8- Beverly Cleary

18. Blubber- Judy Blume

19. I am the Cheese- Robert Cormier

20. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway* (Or The Sun Also Rises*)

21. Uncle Tom's Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe*

22. Stargirl- Jerry Spinelli 

23. Anthem- Ayn Rand

24. After the Rain- Norma Fox Mazer*

25. The Stand- Stephen King

26. Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell

27. Pigs in Heaven- Barbara Kingsolver*

28. The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner*

29. King of the Wind- Marguerite Henry*

30. Great Expectations- Charles Dickens* (Or any other Dickens minus A Christmas Carol)

31. Homeland- R.A. Salvatore

32. O. Henry's Stories- O. Henry (at least one collection)*

33. Our Town- Thornton Wilder*

34. Candide- Voltaire*

35. Pygmalion- George Bernard Shaw*

36. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams

37. The Screwtape Letters- C.S. Lewis*

38. The Shipping News- Annie Proulx*

39. Wicked- Gregory Maguire

40. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter- Carson McCullers*

41. The Road- Cormac McCarthy

42. Watership Down- Richard Adams

43. The Golden Compass- Phillip Pullman*

44. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle- Hugh Lofting*

45. The Story of Mankind- Hendrik Van Loon*

46. Black Beauty- Anna Sewell

47. The Secret Garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett*

48. Anne of Green Gables- L.M. Montgomery

49. Sabriel- Garth Nix

50. The Princess and the Goblin-  George MacDonald

51. In the Forests of the Night- Amelia Atwater Rhodes

52. The Cider House Rules- John Irving*

53. The Winter's Tale- William Shakespeare (substitute possible)

54. Howl's Moving Castle- Diana Wynne Jones

55. Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card

56. The Glass Castle- Jeannette Walls

57. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn- Betty Smith

58. A Little Princess- Frances Hodgson Burnett*

59. The Wind in the Willows- Kenneth Grahame

60. Middlesex- Jeffry Eugenides

61. The Secret Life of Bees- Sue Monk Kidd*

62. Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden*

63. War of the Worlds- H.G. Wells*

64. Beloved- Toni Morrison

65. Nineteen Minutes- Jodi Picoult (Substitute Picoult book possible)

66. East of Eden- John Steinbeck*

67. The Five People You Met in Heaven- Mitch Albom*

68. The Knife of Never Letting Go- Patrick Ness

69. Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro

70. Dealing with Dragons- Patricia C. Wrede

71. Among the Hidden- Margaret Peterson Haddix

72. The Book of Three- Lloyd Alexander

73. The Lightning Thief- Rick Riordan

74. Rebecca- Daphne Du Marier* 

75. The Jungle- Upton Sinclair*

76. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov

77. Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe

78. My Name is Asher Lev- Chaim Potok

79. The Thirteenth Tale- Diane Setterfield*

80. Man's Search for Meaning- Victor Frankl

81. Trumpet of the Swan- E.B. White*

82. Twenty Boy Summer- Sarah Ockler*

83. An Abundance of Katherines- John Green 

84. One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (or Love in the Time of Cholera)

85. The (Unabridged) Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas

86. The Ropemaker- Peter Dickinson*

87. Inkheart- Cornelia Funke

88. The Mysterious Benedict Society- Trenton Lee Stewart

89. Milkweed- Jerry Spinelli

90. Freakonimics- Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner*

91. Mother Night- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.*

92. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer- Mark Twain*

93. Oedipus Rex- Sophocles*

94. Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostevsky*

95. The Last of the Mohicans- James Fenimore Cooper*

96. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich- Alexander Solzhenitsyn*

97. The Perilous Gard- Elizabeth Marie Pope

98. Tam Lin- Pamela Dean

99. 84, Charing Cross Road- Helene Hanff

100. Twelfth Night- William Shakespeare

Read: 2/100

Need to Read: 98/100


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