- Amber Chronicles, The, Roger Zelazny
- Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
- Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The, Junot Diaz
- Call of the Wild, The, Jack London
- Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
- Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
- Catcher in the Rye, The, JD Salinger
- Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
- Charlotte’s Web, EB White
- Colour of Magic, The, Terry Pratchett
- Complete Stories and Poems, The, Edgar Allan Poe
- Confederacy of Dunces, A, John Kennedy Toole
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire
- Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A, Mark Twain
- Consider Plebas, Ian M Banks
- Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The, Mark Haddon
- Diamond Age, The, Neal Stephenson
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Phillip K Dick
- Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
- Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
- Drowned Hopes, Donald Westlake
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
- Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
- Fable, A, William Faulkner
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
- Farewell to Arms, A, Ernest Hemingway
- Flatland, Edwin Abbott
- Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
- Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
- Fountainhead, The, Ayn Rand
- Good Earth, The, Pearl S Buck
- Great Gatsby, The, F Scott Fitzgerald
- Gunslinger, The, Stephen King
- Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A, Dave Eggers
- Hound of the Baskervilles, The, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- House of Seven Gables, The, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- House of Spirits, The, Isabel Allende
- Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
- Hyperion, Dan Simmons
- Innocent Traitor, Allison Weir
- Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
- Inventing Memory, Anne Harris
- Island of Dr Moreau, The, HG Wells
- Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
- Journey to the Center of the Earth, A, Jules Verne
- Lake of Dead Languages, The, Carol Goodman
- Lamplighter, The, Maria S Cummins
- Left Hand of Darkness, The, Ursula K Le Guin
- Lost Boys, Orson Scott Card
- Maurice, EM Forster
- Memory Keeper’s Daughter, The, Kim Edwards
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
- Mistress Shakespeare, Karen Harper
- Mists of Avalon, The, Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Moonheart, Charles de Lint
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- Next, Michael Crichton
- Once and Future King, The, TH White
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Orlando, Virginia Woolf
- Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
- Other Boleyn Girl, The, Philippa Gregory
- Pact, The, Jodi Picoult
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Picture of Dorian Gray, The, Oscar Wilde
- Pillars of the Earth, The, Ken Follett
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A, James Joyce
- Prayer for Owen Meany, A, John Irving
- Quiet American, The, Graham Greene
- Ragtime, EL Doctorow
- Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
- Sense of the World, A, Jason Roberts
- Shakespeare: The World as Stage, Bill Bryson
- Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
- Summerland, Michael Chabon
- Tale of Two Cities, A, Charles Dickens
- Tempest, The, William Shakespeare
- Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The, Anne Bronte
- Thousand Splendid Suns, A, Khaled Hosseini
- Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
- Three Junes, Julia Glass
- Three Musketeers, The, Alexandre Dumas
- Time Traveler’s Wife, The, Audrey Nifenegger
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A, Betty Smith
- Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
- Villette, Charlotte Bronte
- Winthrop Woman, The, Anya Seton
- Wizard of Oz, The, L Frank Baum
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
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:
