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I submit this list without much commentary. It's eclectic -- new and old books, fiction and nonfiction, at least one graphic novel, even some poetry. Because I don't believe in age dictating what a person should read, there are both adult books and young adult books and even some books originally marketed to children. There are classics, there are chick lit masterpieces, and there are books about rock and roll. There are some favorite books about spirituality and a few about writing -- I was going to leave those off but then decided that was dumb, because they are good books and have something to teach anyone who reads them.
So without further ado...
1)
The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
3)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK
Rowling
4)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK
Rowling
5)
Voyager (Outlander series), Diana
Gabaldon
6)
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
7)
A
Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
8)
Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell
9)
Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
10)
Attachments, Rainbow Rowell
11)
The
Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman
12)
Practical
Magic, Alice Hoffman
13)
About
a Boy, Nick Hornby
14)
A
Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
15)
The
Perks of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
16)
Tell
The Wolves I’m Home, Carol Rifka Brunt
17)
Ten
Thousand Saints, Eleanor Henderson
18)
The
Fault In Our Stars, John Green
19)
The
Mockingjay Trilogy, Suzanne Collins
20)
Sister
of My Heart, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
21)
The
Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
22)
Skipped
Parts (and the rest of the Grovont Trilogy), Tim Sandlin
23)
Girl, Blake Nelson
24)
Exodus,
Leon Uris
25)
The
Outsiders, SE Hinton
26)
Persuasion,
Jane Austen
27)
Sense
and Sensibility, Jane Austen
28)
Unbroken,
Lauren Hillenbrand
29)
Major
Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simmons
30)
Bridget
Jones’ Diary, Helen Fielding
31)
Bridget
Jones: The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding
32)
Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
33)
Gospel:
A Novel, Wilton Barnhardt
34)
Microserfs,
Douglas Coupland
35)
Life
After God, Douglas Coupland
36)
Ellen
Tebbits, Beverly Cleary
37)
The
Lord of the Rings Trilogy, JRR Tolkien
38)
Tales
of the City (whole series), Armistead Maupin
39)
The
Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
40)
The
Collected Short Stories, Ernest Hemingway
41)
Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
42)
Good
In Bed, Jennifer Weiner
43)
In
Her Shoes, Jennifer Weiner
44)
The
Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus trilogy), Jonathon Stroud
45)
The
Fact of A Doorframe (poems), Adrienne Rich
46)
44
Scotland Street (series), Alexander McCall Smith
47)
No.
1 Ladies Detective Agency (series), Alexander McCall Smith
48)
The
War of Art, Steven Pressfield
49)
NP, Banana
Yoshimoto
50)
A
Tale For the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
51)
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
52)
Mandy, Julie Edwards
53)
The
Commitments, Roddy Doyle
54)
Anne
of Green Gables (series), LM Montgomery
55)
Emily of New Moon (series), LM
Montgomery
56)
Any
Man of Mine, Rachel Gibson
57)
Les
Miserables, Victor Hugo
58)
Istanbul Passage, Joseph Kanon
59)
A
Storm of Swords, George RR Martin
60)
The
Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh series), PD James
61)
The
Confessor (Gabriel Allon series), Daniel Silva
62)
The
Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
63)
A
Game of Thrones, George RR Martin
64)
Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980, Allen
Ginsberg
65)
An
Actual Life, Abigail Thomas
66)
Getting Over Tom, Abigail Thomas
67)
The
Moralist of the Alphabet Streets, Fabienne Marsh (out of print)
68)
Peace Is Every Step, Thich Nat Hanh
69)
Death At La Fenice (Commisario Guido Brunetti
series), Donna Leon
70)
Nowhere But Home, Liza Palmer
71)
Me
Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
72)
The
Idiot Girl’s Action Adventure Club, Laurie Notaro
73)
The
Majic Bus, Douglas Brinkley
74)
The
Great Deluge, Douglas Brinkley
75)
Homecoming, Cynthia Voigt
76)
All
The Lonely People, Jess Riley
77)
The
Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva
78)
Help
Thanks Wow, Anne Lamott
79)
Bird
By Bird, Anne Lamott
80)
A
Writer’s Life, Annie Dillard
81)
The
Feast of Love, Charles Baxter
82)
Floating
In My Mother’s Palm, Ursula Hegi
83)
Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai
84)
Life, Keith Richards
85)
Just
Kids, Patti Smith
86)
Chronicles, Vol. I, Bob Dylan
87)
Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of
Epic Humiliation, Aisha Tyler
88)
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny
Lawson
89)
Arranged, Catherine McKenzie
90)
Forgotten, Catherine McKenzie
91)
Hey,
Nostradamus, Douglas Coupland
92)
Killing Yourself to Live, Chuck
Klosterman
93)
Song
Yet Sung, James McBride
94)
The
Good Lord Bird, James McBride
95)
Whistling Past the Graveyard, Susan
Crandall
96)
Sex,
Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
97)
Possession, AS Byatt
98)
We’ll
Always Have Paris, Jennifer Coburn
99)
The
Paris Wife, Paula McLain
100) The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, Christopher
Booker
