My 100 Favorite Books

As sad as we all were when David Bowie died last week, I was thrilled to see his list of his 100 Favorite Books, and I thought I'd do one of my own. These aren't in any particular order, but they are all awesome. You should read them. Right now.

1. Making History by Stephen Fry
2. Emma by Jane Austen
3. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
4. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away by Bill Bryson
5. These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
6. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
7. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
9. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
10. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
11. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
12. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
13. Blindness by José Saramago
14. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
15. Straight Man by Richard Russo
16. Making Half Whole by Terry Wolfe Phelan
17. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
18. Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters by Jean Shepherd
19. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
20. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
21. Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" by Bill Watterson
22. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
23. Dirty Work by Larry Brown
24. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
25. Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
26. The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
27. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume 
28. The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
29. Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
30. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
31. Persuasion by Jane Austen
32. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
33. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
34. Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World by Leigh Ann Henion
35. Atonement by Ian McEwan
36. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
37. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
38. Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate by Helen Prejean
39. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
40. Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
41. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
42. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
43. Naked by David Sedaris
44. The Plague by Albert Camus
45. The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
46. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
47. A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation by Catherine Allgor
48. The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
49. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
50. The Floatplane Notebooks by Clyde Edgerton
51. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
52. Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary
53. Ferris Beach by Jill McCorkle
54. Watership Down by Richard Adams
55. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
56. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
57. Jason and Marceline by Jerry Spinelli
58. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
59. Poachers: Stories by Tom Franklin
60. It's OK If You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
61. Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson
62. The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
63. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
64. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
65. The Cheer Leader by Jill McCorkle
66. The Thin Red Line by James Jones
67. Love Warps the Mind a Little by John Dufresne 
68. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
69. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
70. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
71. The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
72. Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk
73. Jubilee by Margaret Walker
74. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
75. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
76. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend: A Novel by Matthew Dicks
77. When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
78. Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pamela Smith Hill (Editor)
79. Red-Tails in Love: PALE MALE'S STORY--A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park by Marie Winn
80. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
81. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
82. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
83. A House Like a Lotus by Madeleine L'Engle
84. Karen Kepplewhite is the World's Best Kisser by Eve Bunting
85. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
86. Holes by Louis Sachar
87. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
88. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
89. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
90. The Natural History of a Yard by Leonard Dubkin
91. The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
92. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
93. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
94. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
95. The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
96. Al(exandra) the Great! by Constance C. Greene
97. Tough-Luck Karen by Johanna Hurwitz 
98. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
99. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
100. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt