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”?<\/p>\n
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.
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\nThieves’ World* – Lynn Abbey & Robert Aspirin
\nThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
\nLittle Women – Louisa May Alcott
\nThe Complete Fairy Tales and Stories – Hans Christian Andersen
\nThe Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
\nGo Tell it on the Mountain – James Baldwin
\nPeter Pan – J.M. Barrie
\nWizard of Oz* – Frank L Baum
\nThe Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle
\nForever – Judy Blume
\nThe Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
\nPhoenix Guards – Steven Brust
\nTo Reign in Hell – Steven Brust
\nWar for the Oaks – Emma Bull
\nBangkok 8 – John Burdett
\nA Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
\nThe Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
\nInspector Montalbano* – Andrea Camilleri
\nEnder’s Game – Orson Scott Card
\nThe Alienist – Caleb Carr
\nAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass – Lewis Carroll
\nThe Mirror Crack’d – Agatha Christie
\nJonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke
\nHeart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
\nJames & the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
\nMemory & Dream – Charles de Lint
\nJack of Kinrowan – Charles de Lint
\nThe Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
\nThe Complete Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
\nThe Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
\nThe Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
\nJames Bond* – Ian Fleming
\nThe Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
\nSandman* – Neil Gaiman
\nThe Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
\nAmerican Gods – Neil Gaiman
\nStardust – Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess
\nGood Omens – Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
\nLord of the Flies – William Golding
\nThe Princess Bride – William Goldman
\nNightside* – Simon R. Green
\nRoots – Alex Haley
\nMythology – Edith Hamilton
\nWhat Angels Fear – CS Harris
\nThe Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris
\nAcross the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn
\nCatch-22 – Joseph Heller
\nTheogony – Hesiod
\nThese Old Shades – Georgette Heyer
\nThe Grand Sophy – Georgette Heyer
\nThe Masqueraders – Georgette Heyer
\nSmila’s Sense of Snow – Peter Hoeg
\nPast the Size of Dreaming – Nina Kiriki Hoffman
\nThe Iliad – Homer
\nThe World According to Garp – John Irving
\nRunaways* – Brian K. Vaughan
\nThe Lions of Al-Rassan – Guy Gavriel Kay
\nSwordspoint – Ellen Kushner
\nThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
\nA Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle
\nThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
\nNight Watch – Seregi Lukyanenko
\nWatchmen – Alan Moore
\nSabriel – Garth Nix
\nIsland of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
\nThe Hounds of the Morrigan – Pat O’Shea
\nSmall Vices – Robert B. Parker
\nThe Fencing Master – Arturo Perez-Reverte
\nZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
\nDiscworld* – Terry Pratchett
\nHis Dark Materials* – Philip Pullman
\nAtlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
\nJulian Kestrel* – Kate Ross
\nHarry Potter* – J.K. Rowling
\nSatanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
\nThe Initiate Brother – Sean Russell
\nWhere the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
\nGreen Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss
\nBlack Beauty – Anna Sewell
\nHamlet – William Shakespeare
\nRomeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
\nFrankenstein – Mary Shelly
\nAbel’s Island – William Steig
\nCryptonomicon – Neil Stephenson
\nDracula – Bram Stoker
\nRising Stars* – J. Michael Straczynski
\nThe Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
\nThe Hobbit – JRR Tolkein
\nAdventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
\nThe Art of War – Sun Tzu
\nAneid – Virgil
\nSlaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
\nSector 7 – David Weisner
\nCharlotte’s Web – E.B. White
\nLittle House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder
\nFables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall – Bill Willingham
\nThe Swiss Family Robinson – Johann D. Wyss
\nIn Camelot’s Shadow – Sarah Zettel
\nThe Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
\nThe Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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