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 11/22/63: A Novel Stephen King
27 Bleak House Charles Dickens
28 The Blue Castle Lucy Maude Montgomery
29 The Ox-Bow Incident Walter Van Tilburg Clark
30 The Call of the Wild Jack London
4 STARS
31 The Road Cormac McCarthy
32 The Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper
33 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
34 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
35 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
36 Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury
37 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller  Italo Calvino
38 American Pastoral Philip Roth
39 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo
41 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
42 Beloved Toni Morrison
43 Fahrenheit 451  Ray Bradbury
44 Invisible Man  Ralph Ellison
45 Coraline Neil Gaiman
46 The Sheltering Sky  Paul Bowles
47 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
48 The Magus John Fowles
49 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
50 Crime and Punishment  Fyodor Dostoyevsky
51 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
52 The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton
53 The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis
54 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
55 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
56 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
57 Nostromo Joseph Conrad
58 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren
59 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert Heinlein
60 Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens
61 O Pioneers! Willa Cather
62 Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne
63 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
64 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
65 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
66 The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
67 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  Ken Kesey
68 The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
69 Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather
70 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
71 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
72 The Brothers Karamazov  Fyodor Dostoyevsky
73 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
74 The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne
75 Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie
76 The Princess Bride William Goldman
77 The Dark Tower Stephen King
78 Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
79 Lost Horizon James Hilton
80 Middlemarch George Eliot
81 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
82 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
83 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
84 The French Lieutenant's Woman  John Fowles
85 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carré
86 Frankenstein Mary Shelley
87 The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
88 Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Gaskell
89 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
90 The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel
91 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
92 The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
93 The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth
94 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
95 Atonement Ian McEwan
96 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Edgar Allan Poe
97 Native Son  Richard Wright
98 Emma Jane Austen
99 Go Tell it on the Mountain  James Baldwin
100 Tom Jones Henry Fielding

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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