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The list -
1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls
5. Stephen King – The Shining
6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince
7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring
8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
10. Jane Austen – pride and Prejudice
11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning
13. Toni Morrison – Beloved
14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone
16. Frank Herbert – Dune
17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly
19. George Orwell – 1984
20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes
21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)
26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars
27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret
30. 30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude
31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22
32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
33. EB White – Charlotte's Web
34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five
35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone
36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies
39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl
40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine
42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day
43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex
44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children
45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden
46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball
47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage
48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road
49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa
50. Agatha Christie – And then There were None
51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint
52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals
54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing
55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle
59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao
60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
61. James McBride – The Color of Water
62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City
65. Lois Lowry – The Giver
66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman
67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass
68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club
72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower
74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna
76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers
77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff
78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road
80. Albert Camus – The Stranger
81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
83. Tim O’Brien - The Things they Carried
84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind – Up Bird Chronicle
85. John Irving – The World According to Garp
86. Shakespeare – Hamlet
87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking
88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken
90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman
91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth
92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple
93. Ian McEwen – Atonement
94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God
98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad
1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls
5. Stephen King – The Shining
6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince
7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring
8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
10. Jane Austen – pride and Prejudice
11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning
13. Toni Morrison – Beloved
14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone
16. Frank Herbert – Dune
17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly
19. George Orwell – 1984
20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes
21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)
26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars
27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret
30. 30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude
31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22
32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
33. EB White – Charlotte's Web
34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five
35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone
36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies
39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl
40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine
42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day
43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex
44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children
45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden
46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball
47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage
48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road
49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa
50. Agatha Christie – And then There were None
51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint
52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals
54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing
55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle
59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao
60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
61. James McBride – The Color of Water
62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City
65. Lois Lowry – The Giver
66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman
67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass
68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club
72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower
74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna
76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers
77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff
78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road
80. Albert Camus – The Stranger
81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
83. Tim O’Brien - The Things they Carried
84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind – Up Bird Chronicle
85. John Irving – The World According to Garp
86. Shakespeare – Hamlet
87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking
88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken
90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman
91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth
92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple
93. Ian McEwen – Atonement
94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God
98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad
Some of these are just plain odd choices, but ok.... :). I've read 37. There are a few more here I'm interested in but some I can't imagine picking up.
1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina --**Read**
2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird --**Read**
3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls
5. Stephen King – The Shining
6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince --**Read**
7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring
8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time --**Read**
10. Jane Austen – pride and Prejudice --**Read**
11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men --**Read**
12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning
13. Toni Morrison – Beloved --**Read**
14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood --**Read**
15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone
16. Frank Herbert – Dune --**Read**
17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly
19. George Orwell – 1984 --**Read**
20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes
21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone --**Read**
25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)
26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars --**Read**
27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass --**Read**
28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret --**Read**
30. 30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude --**Read**
31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22
32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
33. EB White – Charlotte's Web --**Read**
34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five --**Read**
35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone
36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies
39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl --**Read**
40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine
42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day
43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex
44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children
45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden
46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball --**Read**
47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage --**Read**
48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road --**Read**
49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa --**Read**
50. Agatha Christie – And then There were None --**Read**
51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint
52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals --**Read**
54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing
55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence --**Read**
56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle
59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao
60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye --**Read**
61. James McBride – The Color of Water
62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club --**Read**
63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City
65. Lois Lowry – The Giver
66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman
67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass
68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby --**Read**
69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go --**Read**
71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club
72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower --**Read**
74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna
76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers
77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff
78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road
80. Albert Camus – The Stranger
81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
83. Tim O’Brien - The Things they Carried
84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind – Up Bird Chronicle
85. John Irving – The World According to Garp --**Read**
86. Shakespeare – Hamlet
87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking --**Read**
88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken --**Read**
90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman --**Read**
91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth
92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple --**Read**
93. Ian McEwen – Atonement --**Read**
94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God --**Read**
98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad
1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina --**Read**
2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird --**Read**
3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls
5. Stephen King – The Shining
6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince --**Read**
7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring
8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time --**Read**
10. Jane Austen – pride and Prejudice --**Read**
11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men --**Read**
12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning
13. Toni Morrison – Beloved --**Read**
14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood --**Read**
15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone
16. Frank Herbert – Dune --**Read**
17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly
19. George Orwell – 1984 --**Read**
20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes
21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone --**Read**
25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)
26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars --**Read**
27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass --**Read**
28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret --**Read**
30. 30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude --**Read**
31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22
32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
33. EB White – Charlotte's Web --**Read**
34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five --**Read**
35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone
36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies
39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl --**Read**
40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine
42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day
43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex
44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children
45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden
46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball --**Read**
47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage --**Read**
48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road --**Read**
49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa --**Read**
50. Agatha Christie – And then There were None --**Read**
51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint
52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals --**Read**
54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing
55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence --**Read**
56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle
59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao
60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye --**Read**
61. James McBride – The Color of Water
62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club --**Read**
63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City
65. Lois Lowry – The Giver
66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman
67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass
68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby --**Read**
69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go --**Read**
71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club
72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower --**Read**
74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna
76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers
77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff
78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road
80. Albert Camus – The Stranger
81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
83. Tim O’Brien - The Things they Carried
84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind – Up Bird Chronicle
85. John Irving – The World According to Garp --**Read**
86. Shakespeare – Hamlet
87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking --**Read**
88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken --**Read**
90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman --**Read**
91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth
92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple --**Read**
93. Ian McEwen – Atonement --**Read**
94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God --**Read**
98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad
Read 31 (?); with most being read prior to Goodreads.
1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
✅2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
✅3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls
✅5. Stephen King – The Shining
✅6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince
✅7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring
8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale (Own/TBR)
✅9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
✅10. Jane Austen – pride and Prejudice
11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning
❌13. Toni Morrison – Beloved .. DNF. I hated it, and just didn't "get it"
14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood (Own/TBR)
15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone
16. Frank Herbert – Dune (TBR)
17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations (Own/TBR)
18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly
✅19. George Orwell – 1984
20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes
21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
✅22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
✅24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)
26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars
✅27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man (I own, TBR)
✅29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret
30. 30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude
✅31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22 - Hilarious and stoopid.
32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
✅33. EB White – Charlotte's Web
34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five (Own/TBR)
35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone
✅36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies
✅39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl
40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine
42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day (Own/TBR)
43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex (I own, TBR)
44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children
⁉️45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden (I read this a long time ago, but cannot remember it. So, it doesn't count)
46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball
47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage
48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road (Own/TBR)
49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa
✅50. Agatha Christie – And then There were None
51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint
52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals
54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing (Own/TBR)
55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
✅57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief - Loved
58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle
59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao
✅60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye - One of my favs; but I will not reread it.
61. James McBride – The Color of Water
✅62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club - 5 Stars
✅63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections - Hard read, but not in subject matter. I think he was just being obtuse.
64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City
✅65. Lois Lowry – The Giver - This entire series is *chef's kiss*
66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman
✅67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass
68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby ( I own, TBR)
69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (I own.TBR)
70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go (I own, TBR)
71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club
72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower
74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna
76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers
77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff
78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
✅79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road - All the stars
80. Albert Camus – The Stranger
81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me (I own, TBR)
✅83. Tim O’Brien - The Things they Carried - Highly recommended
84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind – Up Bird Chronicle
85. John Irving – The World According to Garp
✅86. Shakespeare – Hamlet - I love Shakespeare. I still have my original books from High School, with all of my notes in the margins.
87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking
88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken
✅90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman
91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth (I own)
✅92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple - Highly recommended.
93. Ian McEwen – Atonement (I own, TBR)
94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
✅95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah (I own, TBR)
✅97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God (This is a tough read d/t language, as well as, situations. It can take 1 or 2 rereads to fully digest this work)
98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
✅99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner - Excellent read, highly recommended
100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad
1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
✅2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
✅3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls
✅5. Stephen King – The Shining
✅6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince
✅7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring
8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale (Own/TBR)
✅9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
✅10. Jane Austen – pride and Prejudice
11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning
❌13. Toni Morrison – Beloved .. DNF. I hated it, and just didn't "get it"
14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood (Own/TBR)
15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone
16. Frank Herbert – Dune (TBR)
17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations (Own/TBR)
18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly
✅19. George Orwell – 1984
20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes
21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
✅22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
✅24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)
26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars
✅27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man (I own, TBR)
✅29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret
30. 30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude
✅31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22 - Hilarious and stoopid.
32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
✅33. EB White – Charlotte's Web
34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five (Own/TBR)
35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone
✅36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies
✅39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl
40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine
42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day (Own/TBR)
43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex (I own, TBR)
44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children
⁉️45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden (I read this a long time ago, but cannot remember it. So, it doesn't count)
46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball
47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage
48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road (Own/TBR)
49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa
✅50. Agatha Christie – And then There were None
51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint
52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals
54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing (Own/TBR)
55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
✅57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief - Loved
58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle
59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao
✅60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye - One of my favs; but I will not reread it.
61. James McBride – The Color of Water
✅62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club - 5 Stars
✅63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections - Hard read, but not in subject matter. I think he was just being obtuse.
64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City
✅65. Lois Lowry – The Giver - This entire series is *chef's kiss*
66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman
✅67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass
68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby ( I own, TBR)
69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (I own.TBR)
70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go (I own, TBR)
71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club
72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower
74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna
76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers
77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff
78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
✅79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road - All the stars
80. Albert Camus – The Stranger
81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me (I own, TBR)
✅83. Tim O’Brien - The Things they Carried - Highly recommended
84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind – Up Bird Chronicle
85. John Irving – The World According to Garp
✅86. Shakespeare – Hamlet - I love Shakespeare. I still have my original books from High School, with all of my notes in the margins.
87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking
88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken
✅90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman
91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth (I own)
✅92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple - Highly recommended.
93. Ian McEwen – Atonement (I own, TBR)
94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
✅95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah (I own, TBR)
✅97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God (This is a tough read d/t language, as well as, situations. It can take 1 or 2 rereads to fully digest this work)
98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
✅99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner - Excellent read, highly recommended
100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad

Lea wrote: "I've read and rated 61 on GR. There are some other books that I read before GR, but I don't remember enough of the books to count them!"
That's fabulous, Lea!!
That's fabulous, Lea!!
Lea wrote: "I've read and rated 61 on GR. There are some other books that I read before GR, but I don't remember enough of the books to count them!"
Impressive
Impressive
Alondra wrote: "Read 31 (?); with most being read prior to Goodreads.
1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
✅2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
✅3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
4. Jacqueline Susan..."
I found it to be an odd list at times as well.
1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
✅2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
✅3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
4. Jacqueline Susan..."
I found it to be an odd list at times as well.

The list -
✅1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
✅2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
✅3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
✅4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls
5. Stephen King – The Shining
6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince
7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring
✅8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
✅9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
✅10. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
✅11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
✅12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning
13. Toni Morrison – Beloved
✅14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone
16. Frank Herbert – Dune
17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly
✅19. George Orwell – 1984
20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes
21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
✅22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
✅24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)
✅26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars
27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
✅29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me, Margaret
30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude
✅31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22
32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
✅33. EB White – Charlotte's Web
34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five
✅35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone
36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies
✅39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl
✅40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine
42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day
✅43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex
44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children
45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden
46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball
47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage
48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road
✅49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa
✅50. Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None
✅51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint
✅52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals
54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing
55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
✅57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle
59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao
✅60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
61. James McBride – The Color of Water
✅62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
✅64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City
✅65. Lois Lowry – The Giver
66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman
67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass
✅68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
✅69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club
72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower
74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna
76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers
✅77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff
78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road
✅80. Albert Camus – The Stranger
✅81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
✅83. Tim O’Brien - The Things They Carried
84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind–Up Bird Chronicle
✅85. John Irving – The World According to Garp
✅86. Shakespeare – Hamlet
87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking
88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
✅89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken
✅90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman
91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth
✅92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple
✅93. Ian McEwen – Atonement
✅94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
✅95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God
✅98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
✅99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad


1. Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
2. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Shel Silverstein – Where the Sidewalk Ends
4. Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls
✔5. Stephen King – The Shining
6. Antoine de Saint Exupery – The Little Prince
7. JRR Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring
8. Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
9. Madeleine l’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
10. Jane Austen – pride and Prejudice
11. Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
12. Viktor E. Frankl – Man's Search for Meaning
13. Toni Morrison – Beloved
14. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
15. Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone
16. Frank Herbert – Dune
17. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
18. Brene Brown – Daring Greatly
19. George Orwell – 1984
20. Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes
21. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
22. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
23. Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
24. JK Rowling – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
25. Alice Munro – Selected Stories (1968 – 1994)
26. John Green – The Fault in our Stars
27. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
28. Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
29. Judy Blume – Are you there God? It’s Me Margaret
30. 30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude
31. Joseph Heller – Catch 22
32. Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis
33. EB White – Charlotte's Web
34. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse – Five
35. Abraham Verghese – Cutting for Stone
36. Alex Haley – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
✔37. Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | 9/3/23
38. Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies
39. Anne Frank – Diary of a Young Girl
40. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
41. Louise Erdrich – Love Medicine
42. David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day
43. Jeffery Eugenides – Middlesex
44. Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children
45. John Steinbeck – East of Eden
46. Michael Lewis – Moneyball
47. W. Somerset Maugham – Of Human Bondage
48. Jack Kerouac – On the Road
49. Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa
✔50. Agatha Christie – And then There were None | 9/3/23
51. Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint
52. Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
53. Doris Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals
54. Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing
55. Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
56. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
57. Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
58. Rita Mae Brown – Rubyfruit Jungle
59. Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous of Life Oscar Wao
60. JD Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
61. James McBride – The Color of Water
62. Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
63. Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
64. Eric Larson – The Devil in the White City
65. Lois Lowry – The Giver
66. Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman
67. Philip Pullman – The Golden Compass
68. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
69. Rebecca Skloot – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
70. Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
71. Mary Karr – The Liar’s Club
72. Raymond Chandler – The Long Goodbye
73. Lawrence Wright – The Looming Tower
74. Oliver Sacks – The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
75. Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemna
76. Robert A. Caro – The Power Brokers
77. Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff
78. James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
79. Cormac McCarthy – The Road
80. Albert Camus – The Stranger
81. Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
82. Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
83. Tim O’Brien - The Things they Carried
84. Haruki Murakami – The Wind – Up Bird Chronicle
85. John Irving – The World According to Garp
86. Shakespeare – Hamlet
87. Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking
88. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
89. Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken
90. Louisa May Alcott – Little Woman
91. Zadie Smith – White Teeth
92. Alice Walker – The Color Purple
93. Ian McEwen – Atonement
94. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
95. CS Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
96. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
97. Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes were Watching God
98. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
99. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
100. Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad
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