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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.

  1. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
  2. Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
  3. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
  4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol
  5. Always Looking up - Michael J. Fox
  6. Beautiful Boy - David Sheff
  7. Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  8. The Birds - Tarjei Vesaas
  9. Bostonians - Henry James
  10. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
  11. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  12. Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevski
  13. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
  14. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  15. Carrie - Stephen King
  16. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  17. Columbine - Dave Cullen
  18. The Commoner - John Burnham Schwartz
  19. The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
  20. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  21. A Death In The Family - James Agee
  22. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
  23. The Dollmaker - Harriette Arnow
  24. East of Edan - John Stienbeck
  25. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
  26. The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
  27. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
  28. Fieldwork - Mischa Berlinski
  29. Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
  30. Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie
  31. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  32. The Gathering - Anne Enright
  33. Ghostwalk - Rebecca Stott
  34. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
  35. Go Down Together - Jeff Guinn
  36. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
  37. The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
  38. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
  39. The Help -
  40. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
  41. Howards End – E.M. Forster
  42. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
  43. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
  44. The Iceman -
  45. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  46. The Indifferent Stars Above - Daniel James Brown
  47. Jesus Land - Julie Scheeres
  48. Justine - Lawrence Durrell
  49. The Kindly Ones - Jonathan Littell
  50. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  51. The Known World - Edward P. Jones
  52. The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
  53. The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
  54. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
  55. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  56. The Luxe - Anna Godberson
  57. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
  58. Mercy - Jodi Picoult
  59. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
  60. Moloka'i - Alan Brennert
  61. The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
  62. No Angels - Penny Vincenzi
  63. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
  64. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
  65. Olive Kitteridge - Elisabeth Strout
  66. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
  67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  68. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  69. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
  70. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
  71. The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
  72. Out by
  73. Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
  74. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
  75. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
  76. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
  77. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
  78. Pope Joan - Donna Cross
  79. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
  80. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
  81. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
  82. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  83. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emmuska Orczy
  84. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
  85. The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
  86. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
  87. Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  88. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
  89. Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
  90. A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor
  91. The Tenant of Wildfield Hall - Anne Bronte
  92. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
  93. A Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson
  94. Villette - Charlotte Bronte
  95. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
  96. Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr
  97. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
  98. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
  99. The Women - T.C. Boyle
  100. The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman