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]
