- Making History by Stephen Fry
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away by Bill Bryson
- These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
- Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- Blindness by José Saramago
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
- Straight Man by Richard Russo
- Making Half Whole by Terry Wolfe Phelan
- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters by Jean Shepherd
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" by Bill Watterson
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- Dirty Work by Larry Brown
- Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
- Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
- The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
- Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
- The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
- Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
- The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
- Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World by Leigh Ann Henion
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- The Alienist by Caleb Carr
- Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate by Helen Prejean
- All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
- Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
- Naked by David Sedaris
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation by Catherine Allgor
- The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- The Floatplane Notebooks by Clyde Edgerton
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary
- Ferris Beach by Jill McCorkle
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
- Jason and Marceline by Jerry Spinelli
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Poachers: Stories by Tom Franklin
- It's OK If You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
- Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson
- The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
- Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
- The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
- The Cheer Leader by Jill McCorkle
- The Thin Red Line by James Jones
- Love Warps the Mind a Little by John Dufresne
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
- Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
- The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
- Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk
- Jubilee by Margaret Walker
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
- Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend: A Novel by Matthew Dicks
- When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
- Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pamela Smith Hill (Editor)
- Red-Tails in Love: PALE MALE'S STORY--A True Wildlife Drama in Central Park by Marie Winn
- And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
- A House Like a Lotus by Madeleine L'Engle
- Karen Kepplewhite is the World's Best Kisser by Eve Bunting
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
- The Natural History of a Yard by Leonard Dubkin
- The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
- An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
- Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
- The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
- Al(exandra) the Great! by Constance C. Greene
- Tough-Luck Karen by Johanna Hurwitz
- Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Monday, January 18, 2016
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.
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Lots of these are book club books. Nice.
I did this activity once upon a time, say eight years ago and I had the darndest time because i tried to put them in numerical order, most favorite to just plain old favorite to sort of favorite. I think that was what sunk the project. If I redo I am going to to follow yous lead and just list favorites and not worry about listing the most favorite first. As soon as i published the list I remembered the other books I should have put on the list. The list creation took up a lot of mental space for days on end.
That said, you and I share lots of quirky books on our top 100. A few to mention are: STIFF (ha, what a funny, weird book); TS Elliott's Practical Cats Poems; Ella Minnow Pea (not a top 100 for me, but I like it and I've never seen it on anyone else's list.)
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