- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- We The Living by Ayn Rand
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- The Day of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Possession by A. S. Byatt
- The Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Lonesome Doveby Larry McMurtry (read August 2024)- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- 4321 by Paul Auster
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
- Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
- The Voyage of The Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
- The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
- The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
- The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
- The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
- Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
- The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
- Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
- The Crimson Petal and The White by Michael Faber
- The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
- Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
- My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
- Shibumi by Trevanian
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
- It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Stoner by John Williams
- The Sea by John Banville
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
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I can’t tell you how happy this list makes me. I see old friends that I have read and loved, books I haven’t read but by authors I love. It is inspiring me to maybe go for another 50 books list (I already listed a few for tomorrow’s spin!) Cheers to our reconnecting and staying in touch to see and read our posts on the spin and everything else. I still have that card in the shape of a cute Japanese girl , I hang it by my desk area in my classroom! A little more for me and I hope to one day leave the classroom as well. I have thought a lot about you lately because I have watched the 3 seasons of The Bear which take place in Chicago!
ReplyDeleteI’m not sure why I haven’t replied to your comment before, but I’m glad you like this list. Also, many of them are rereads for me, as they are beloved books; so many have literally changed my life in growing my perspective and strength. Maybe I should add Charlotte’s Web?😉
DeleteI loved "My Name is Red", such an original book, a page turner.
ReplyDeleteI remember when this list -- or something very like it, though I thought the one back then included 100 titles --was published on FaceBook more than ten years ago. Some of us wondered how it was that three novels by Ayn Rand would be on such a list. After doing a little research it was discovered that the list was created by votes from the general public, and that the Ayn Rand Society had their members flood the contest with votes for her books.
ReplyDeleteThat is such a shame that the Ayn Rand Society “cheated.” I always despair at the dishonesty which surrounds us. That said, I’m a great fan of Ayn Rand’s work. A capitalist at heart, I cannot abide excuses for incompetence, or shirking of one’s personal responsibility. Perhaps those rank with dishonesty.
DeleteCaveat: As a Christian, I also believe that we must help those who truly need it.