My Top (not quite) 100 Books

A work in progress, but here’s the list so far….

1. Daytripper – Gabriel Ba / Fabio Moon (graphic novel)
2. A Room with a View – E.M. Forster
3. The Book Thief – Marcus Zusak
4. The Sandman:  The Dream Hunters – Neil Gaiman (graphic novel)
5. A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway (non-fiction / memoir)
6. Griffin and Sabine Trilogy – Nick Bantock
7. Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret? – Judy Blume
8. Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt (non-fiction / biography)
9. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
10. American Psycho – Brett Easton Ellis
11. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
12. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
13. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke
14. A Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
16. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
17. The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkein
18. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkein
19. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
20. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
21. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
22. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
23. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
24. Persuasion – Jane Austen
25. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
26. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
27. 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
28. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
29. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
30. Skippy Dies – Paul Murray
31. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
32. The Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiner (non-fiction / travel)
33. The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett
34. 2666 – Roberto Bolano
35. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
36. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
37. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
38. Einstein’s Dreams – Alan Lightman
39. The Oxford Murders – Guillermo Martinez
40. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
41. Atonement – Ian McEwan
42. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
43. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
44. Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
45. Slapstick – Kurt Vonnegut
46. The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
47. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
48. The Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck
49. The Pearl – John Steinbeck
50. Perfume – Patrick Suskind
51. The Prestige – Christopher Priest
52. My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk
53. Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
54. Eats Shoots and Leaves – Lynn Truss (non-fiction / grammar)
55. Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond (non-fiction / society)
56. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
57. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
59. Animal Farm – George Orwell
60. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
61. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
62. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
63. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
64. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
65. Bringing Up Bebe – Pamela Druckerman (non-fiction / parenting / society)
66. The Sweet Life in Paris – David Lebovitz (non-fiction / travel / cooking)
67. A Song of Ice and Fire Series – George R.R. Martin
68. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
69. Room – Emma Donoghue
70. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
71. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
72. Freakonomics – Stephen Dubner / Steven Levitt (non-fiction / economics / society)
73. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
74. The Reader – Bernard Schlink
75. The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
76. Death Be Not Proud – John Gunthar
77. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
78. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
79. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
80. Coraline – Neil Gaiman
81. The Non-Existent Knight – Italo Calvino
82. The Cloven Viscount – Italo Calvino
83. Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling
84. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
85. The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
86. The Orphan Master’s Son – Adam Johnson
87. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena – Anthony Marra
88. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
89. The Dinner – Herman Koch
90. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
91. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
92. Middlemarch – George Eliot