Over on Facebook I got tagged by the 100 books meme. Except of course it was like 113 by the time it got to me. And kinda bogus. I mean, who comes up with these things? Who determines what is a “must read”?

So I said to hell with it, and made my own list of 100. Some are single books, some are a series, and I’ve read every last one of ’em.

Thieves’ World* – Lynn Abbey & Robert Aspirin
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories – Hans Christian Andersen
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Go Tell it on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
Wizard of Oz* – Frank L Baum
The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle
Forever – Judy Blume
The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
Phoenix Guards – Steven Brust
To Reign in Hell – Steven Brust
War for the Oaks – Emma Bull
Bangkok 8 – John Burdett
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Inspector Montalbano* – Andrea Camilleri
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
The Alienist – Caleb Carr
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll
The Mirror Crack’d – Agatha Christie
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
James & the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
Memory & Dream – Charles de Lint
Jack of Kinrowan – Charles de Lint
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
James Bond* – Ian Fleming
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
Sandman* – Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Stardust – Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess
Good Omens – Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
Nightside* – Simon R. Green
Roots – Alex Haley
Mythology – Edith Hamilton
What Angels Fear – CS Harris
The Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris
Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Theogony – Hesiod
These Old Shades – Georgette Heyer
The Grand Sophy – Georgette Heyer
The Masqueraders – Georgette Heyer
Smila’s Sense of Snow – Peter Hoeg
Past the Size of Dreaming – Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Iliad – Homer
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Runaways* – Brian K. Vaughan
The Lions of Al-Rassan – Guy Gavriel Kay
Swordspoint – Ellen Kushner
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
Night Watch – Seregi Lukyanenko
Watchmen – Alan Moore
Sabriel – Garth Nix
Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
The Hounds of the Morrigan – Pat O’Shea
Small Vices – Robert B. Parker
The Fencing Master – Arturo Perez-Reverte
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
Discworld* – Terry Pratchett
His Dark Materials* – Philip Pullman
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
Julian Kestrel* – Kate Ross
Harry Potter* – J.K. Rowling
Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Initiate Brother – Sean Russell
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
Frankenstein – Mary Shelly
Abel’s Island – William Steig
Cryptonomicon – Neil Stephenson
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Rising Stars* – J. Michael Straczynski
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkein
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
Aneid – Virgil
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Sector 7 – David Weisner
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
Little House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall – Bill Willingham
The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann D. Wyss
In Camelot’s Shadow – Sarah Zettel
The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Feel free to comment on this list or make your own–it was actually harder to create this list than I thought. Not because I haven’t read enough books, but because I was trying to limit it to what was really good or very important to me in some way.

* Series of books