1. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
2. Anthills of the Savannah - Chinua Achebe
3. Half a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
6. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
7. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
8. Emma - Jane Austen
9. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
10. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
11. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
12. The Teahouse Fire - Ellis Avery
13. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
14. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
15. The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
16. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
17. Possession - A.S. Byatt
18. My Antonia - Willa Cather
19. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
20. Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
21. Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clark
22. Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
23. In the Heart of the Country - JM Coetzee
24. Disgrace - JM Coetzee
25. Life and Times of Michael K - JM Coetzee
26. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
27. The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
28. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
29. Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delaney
30. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue - Samuel R. Delaney
31. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
32. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
33. Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
34. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
35. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
36. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
37. What is the What - Dave Eggers
38. Middlemarch - George Eliot
39. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
40. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
41. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
42. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
43. Room with a View - E. M. Forster
44. Passage to India - E.M. Forster
45. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
46. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller
47. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
48. Tess of the Durbervilles - Thomas Hardy
49. Roots - Alex Haley
50. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
51. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
52. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
53. The Known World - Edward P. Jones
54. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
55. Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
56. The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd
57. Immortality - Milan Kundera
58. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
59. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
60. Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
61. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
62. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
63. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
64. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
65. Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane
66. Miriam’s Song - Miriam and Mark Mathabane
67. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
68. Sula - Toni Morrison
69. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
70. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
71. Beloved - Toni Morrison
72. A Mercy - Toni Morrison
73. Runaway - Alice Munro
74. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
75. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
76. A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
77. In A Free Country - V.S. Naipaul
78. The English Patient - Micheal Ondaatje
79. The Wishing Year - Noelle Oxenhandler
80. Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
81. Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
82. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
83. Peony in Love - Lisa See
84. Unless - Carol Shields
85. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
86. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series Books 3-10 - Alexander McCall Smith
87. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
88. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
89. Slumdog Millionaire - Vikas Swarup
90. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
91. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
92. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
93. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
94. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
95. Optimists Daughter - Eudora Welty
96. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
97. Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
98. Native Son - Richard Wright
99. I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe
100. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Wow Trixie we have TONS in common. I'm glad you were able to finish your list. You've got some great choices.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Amanda,I really like the selection of authors you have.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a fantastic list! I'm thinking I should have mixed in a few more contemporary authors than I did in mine, but oh well. You do have The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton on your list twice, just FYI - you have a spot to add another book if you want! One suggestion - if there's another Tom Wolfe book that you're interested in, I'd recommend that instead of Charlotte Simmons. I read that with a book club a few years ago, and it was hated pretty much unanimously, even by the people who were Tom Wolfe fans...
ReplyDeleteThis list has so many awesome books I don't even know where to start.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is one of my all time favourites, so I can't wait to hear what you think of that one!
Amanda - So glad we have a lot it common. That should make it more fun. I had a tough time coming up with a list!
ReplyDeleteJ.C. - thanks, I tried hard to come up with a list of books by or about Women and People of Color.
Jen - I'm going to edit my post and add Native Son by Richard Wright - thanks for spotting that duplicate error. I tried to avoid duplicates by alphabetizing, but apparently it was too late last night.
As for the Tom Wolfe, the fact is that I have it on my shelf b/c I heard it was supposedly about students at a University just south of Philadelphia, namely in Delaware, and that's where I attended University. So I figure I'll try it, and if it stinks, I'll trade it on bookmooch. Goal is mainly to get it off my shelf!
Briony - Thanks! I'm really excited about Jonathan Strange.
OMG - it was way too late last night. I had misnumbered too and skipped a number. So I also added Alice Munro's Runaway. Now I'm done I think.
ReplyDeleteGL Trixie! We have a lot of the same!
ReplyDeleteI just decided to replace Lolita on my list. I read the plot summary. I only had a basic idea of the plot but now that I've read a little more I don't think I could get thru it. lol. So I've gotta find a replacement.
Purple Clover - I'm kind of excited to try Lolita anyway. And my hubby just got me a copy for my birthday! I do think it will be tough subject matter, but I enjoyed Little Children by Tom Perotta even when no one else in my book club did.
ReplyDeleteTrixie: Whenever I'm asked what my favorite books are, Kaffir Boy is always at the top of my list. It is moving on so many levels. I would compare it to the Life of Frederick Douglass or to Angela's Ashes. Highly recommend it!
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