My Favorite Books

On Monday, Rachelle (aka Magpie Girl) posted a list of her favorite books on her blog. I thought she compiled a good list, so I re-tweeted her link on Twitter. That, of course, led to another Twitter-verse person (Kristin) asking if I had a list of my favorite books, because she thought it would be good.

Well, I know a challenge when I see one, so I set out to create a list of my absolute favorite books, the ones I can read over and over and over again.

And now I think I might have a problem because my list has 50 books on it. That's right, 5-0. I tried to prune it down. I really did. And I have to honestly say that all 50 of these books belong on my favorites list.

So here we go:

Fiction, Classic
Little Women -- Alcott, Lousia May
Persuasion -- Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice -- Austen, Jane
The Secret Garden -- Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Little Dorrit -- Dickens, Charles
The Dubliners -- Joyce, James
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Lee, Harper
Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Complete Works -- Shakespeare, William
The Importance of Being Earnest -- Wilde, Oscar

Fiction, Contemporary
The Pretend Wife -- Asher, Bridget
The Girl with the Pearl Earring -- Chevalier, Tracy
Love Walked In -- de los Santos, Marisa
Interpreter of Maladies -- Lahiri, Jhumpa
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister -- Maguire, Gregory
Atonement -- McEwan, Ian
Plain Truth -- Picoult, Jodi
The Lovely Bones -- Sebold, Alice
The Next Thing on My List -- Smolinski, Jill
Slaughterhouse-Five -- Vonnegut, Kurt

Fiction, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Adams, Douglas
The Mists of Avalon -- Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Ender's Game -- Card, Orson Scott
Dune (series) -- Herbert, Frank
Earthsea (series) -- Le Guin, Ursula
Time Quartet (series) - L'Engle, Madeleine
The Chronicles of Narnia (series) -- Lewis, C.S.
Wicked -- Maguire, Gregory
His Dark Materials (series) -- Pullman, Philip
Harry Potter (series) -- Rowling, J.K.
The Lord of the Rings -- Tolkien, J.R.R.

Fiction, Children's & Young Adult
Gemma Doyle (series) -- Bray, Libba
Princess Diaries (series) -- Cabot, Meg
Gallagher Girls (series) -- Carter, Ally
The Hunger Games -- Collins, Suzanne
A Ring of Endless Light -- L'Engle, Madeleine
Looking for Alibrandi -- Marchetta, Melina
Wicked Lovely -- Marr, Melissa
Twilight (series) -- Meyer, Stephenie
Cinderella -- Perrault, Charles

Non-Fiction
I'm a Stranger Here Myself -- Bryson, Bill
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them -- Franken, Al
Escape -- Jessop, Carolyn
Bird by Bird -- Lamott, Anne
The Complete Guide to the Kings & Queens of Britain -- Phillips, Charles
Life Happens -- Schultz, Connie
Me Talk Pretty One Day -- Sedaris, David
America: The Book -- Stewart, Jon
Jesus is Not a Republican -- Willis, Clint
Girl Meets God -- Winner, Lauren

Happy Reading!

[cross-posted to Ordinary Mer]