100 FIRST CLASS BOOKS.

ROLCAM · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject: 100 FIRST CLASS BOOKS.

My Reading List

This is a list I have gotten off another site and these 100 books have been voted the best fiction books last year. I fully intend to read all these books now! I'll cross off books as i read (or have read) them.

1. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
4. Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
5. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
6. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
7. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
8. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
9. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
10. The Stand by Stephen King
11. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
12. A Tree Grows in Brookyn by Betty Smith
13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
14. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
15. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
16. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
17. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
18. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
20. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
21. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
22. Dune by Frank Herbert
23. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
24. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
25. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
26. A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford
27. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
28. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
29. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
30. Exodus by Leon Uris
31. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
32. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
33. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
34. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
35. Beloved by Toni Morrison
36. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
37. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
38. The Game of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
39. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
40. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
41. Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone by J.K. Rowling
42. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
43. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
44. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
45. Insomnia by Stephen King
46. Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
47. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
48. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
49. Katherine by Anya Seton
50. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
51. 1984 by George Orwell
52. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
53. Beach Music by Pat Conroy
54. Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth
55. The World According to Garp by John Irving
56. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
57. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
58. Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
59. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
60. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
61. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
62. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
63. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
64. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
65. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole
66. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
67. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
68. The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
69. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
70. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
71. Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
72. My Antonia by Willa Cather
73. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
74. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
75. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
76. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
77. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
78. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
79. Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg
80. Time and Again by Jack Finney
81. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
82. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
83. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
84. Watership Down by Richard Adams
85. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
86. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
87. ...And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer
88. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
89. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
90. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
91. Dracula by Bram Stoker
92. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
93. The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
94. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
95. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
96. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
97. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
98. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
99. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
100. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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