Wanderer's Top 100

 


5 STARS
1 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
2 To Kill a Mockingbird  Harper Lee
3 The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 
4 Lord of the Flies  William Golding
5 The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis
6 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

4 1/2 STARS
7 Gone With the Wind  Margaret Mitchell
8 The Grapes of Wrath  John Steinbeck
9 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 
10 The Stand Stephen King
11 Dune Frank Herbert
12 David Copperfield Charles Dickens
13 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
14 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
15 Dracula Bram Stoker
16 Watership Down Richard Adams
17 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë
18 One Hundred Years of Solitude  Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
19 Deliverance  James Dickey
20 Little Women Louisa May Alcott
21 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 
22 The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway
23 In Cold Blood Truman Capote
24 Ragtime E. L. Doctorow
25 An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
26 Bleak House Charles Dickens
27 The Blue Castle Lucy Maude Montgomery
28 The Ox-Bow Incident Walter Van Tilburg Clark
29 The Call of the Wild Jack London

4 STARS
30 The Road Cormac McCarthy
31 The Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper
32 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
33 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
34 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
35 Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury
36 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller  Italo Calvino
37 American Pastoral Philip Roth
38 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
39 Les Misérables Victor Hugo
40 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
41 Beloved Toni Morrison
42 Fahrenheit 451  Ray Bradbury
43 Invisible Man  Ralph Ellison
44 Coraline Neil Gaiman
45 The Sheltering Sky  Paul Bowles
46 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
47 Crime and Punishment  Fyodor Dostoyevsky
48 The French Lieutenant's Woman  John Fowles
49 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
50 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
51 The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton
52 The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis
53 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
54 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
55 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
56 Nostromo Joseph Conrad
57 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
58 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren
59 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert Heinlein
60 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton
61 Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens
62 The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett
63 Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne
64 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
65 Atonement Ian McEwan
66 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
67 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
68 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
69 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Edgar Allan Poe
70 The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
71 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  Ken Kesey
72 The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
73 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
74 Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather
75 The Brothers Karamazov  Fyodor Dostoyevsky
76 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
77 Emma Jane Austen
78 The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne
79 The Princess Bride William Goldman
80 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
81 Gadsby Ernest Vincent Wright
82 An Antarctic Mystery jules verne
83 The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story Horace Walpole
84 Germinal Émile Zola 
85 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie
86 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
87 Middlemarch George Eliot
88 Lost Horizon James Hilton
89 Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Gaskell
90 The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch
91 Ratman's Notebooks (Willard) Stephen Gilbert
92 The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel
93 Tom Jones Henry Fielding
94 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
95 Pale Fire  Vladimir Nabokov
96 Go Tell it on the Mountain  James Baldwin
97 Native Son  Richard Wright
98 The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens
99 Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey
100 Frankenstein  Mary Shelley
 

3 comments:

  1. Well, you did it...sort of. I like to think of my canon as my standard of literature, works that matter to me. But, yes, it is obviously very personal. Hence, "personal favorites" does the job.

    Ones we share: In Cold Blood, P&P, AK, Little Women, Jane Eyre, Tale of Two Cities, Gone With the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Lord of the Flies. I still need to read: Little Prince, David Copperfield, Les Miz, Atlas Shrugged, and Bleak House! I have a feeling many of those will end up on my PC, too.

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    1. I'm pretty sure you'll like all of those, except perhaps The Little Prince...but if I had to recommend one for you...I'd say Bleak House, the only Dickens novel written from a Female narrator's point of view. Thanks for checking out my list.

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    2. I know, I need to stop being intimidated by these big books.

      I've tried reading The Little Price to my kids, and all of us were perplexed. So I quit. I mean to return to it, at least by myself.

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