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Top 50 books

Posted 07-07-2009 at 01:27 PM by scooterbug44
Updated 07-07-2009 at 02:45 PM by scooterbug44 (add books, typos)

In no particular order, just had to number them to keep count. Criteria is that I have to have read them and either liked them or been impressed by the ideas in them.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
3. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
5. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
6. Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
7. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
8. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
9. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
10. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
11. Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
12. Men to Match my Mountains - Irving Stone
13. Call of the Wild - Jack London
14. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
15. The Bible
16. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
17. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series - L. Frank Baum
18. The Iliad and the Odyssey - Homer
19. Gulliver's Travel's - Jonathan Swift
20. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
22. Night - Elie Weisel
23. Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
24. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
25. Antigone - Sophocles
26. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
27. The Dr. Dolittle Series - Hugh Lofting
28. The Kite Runner - Khaled Housseni
29. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
30. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
31. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
32. Candide - Voltaire
33. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
34. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
35. A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
36. King Lear - Shakespeare
37. Hamlet - Shakespeare
38. The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
39. Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbit
40. Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
41. Cheaper By the Dozen - Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth
42. Medea - Euripides
43. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
44. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
45. Anne of Green Gables series - L.M. Montgomery
46. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory series - Roald Dahl
47. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
48. Last of the Mohicans - James Fennimore Cooper
49. Grimm's Fairy Tales - Brother's Grimm
50. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
51. Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare
52. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

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I have read 17 of your list and actually have two of them on my Kindle now! lol I am much more of a Stephen King, Dean Koontz type of guy, though I have really enjoyed some of the classics you have listed. I am very pleased to see you with the Harry Potter series on there, as it is one of my favorite reads ever. I am very sad its all over with, as I use to really enjoy anticipating the next book in the series. :)

Posted 07-07-2009 at 05:41 PM by Douglas the Intrepid Douglas the Intrepid is offline

	Great List. I've read many, but you've inspired me to read a few more. Thanks.
	Posted 07-08-2009 at 02:09 PM by DuneLaker

	Love the list. while familiar with most titles, I've only really read about 15 or so. Wish I could even begin to remember my many favorites! maybe I shall try.
	Posted 07-09-2009 at 11:17 AM by Tootsie

	Did you major in English lit? I did and have read many but shame shame not all on the list. I have read TKAM more times than I can count, and it would be the #1 book on my list of 50. Truly bears the test of repetition as well as whatever those others are (timelessness? unity? brevity? I forget).
	Posted 07-15-2009 at 04:56 PM by Susan Horn

Wow, because I am not an advid reader, I thought I'd see nothing on your list that I'd read. But I've read Fahrenheit 451 like 5 or 6 times. Watched 'To Kill a Mockingbird' if that comes close to counting (one of the best movies I've ever seen). I read Into Thin Air, Huck Fin, Lord of the Flies, Canteberry Tales, and a few more in High School.

But the others that I was fascinated by were Lack London's Call of the Wild. That guy can flat out describe a scene. I re-read this one before heading out west on a trip once, to capture a sense of the wild, and I succeeded. And of course the Odyessey was fabulous.

Great list btw. My dad gave me the book, Kim, when I was young, but I never read it. He highly recommended it. He was an advid reader and was the one who gave me Fahrenheit 451. The gift of reading is quite that, a gift. I guess however, as much as I've liked to write, if the book is not absolutely spellbinding in its usage of words, my attention is lost quickly.

The t.v. generation I guess.

Posted 07-17-2009 at 11:03 AM by mikecatadjuster mikecatadjuster is offline

	Great list--I have read most of them, but there are a few that I will be sure and pick up.
	Posted 07-17-2009 at 12:00 PM by goodwitch58

	No, not an english lit major - I just like to read and had great teachers/relatives who encouraged reading. I learned to read for myself before I was in kindegarten, but Mama Scooterbug still read to us every morning during breakfast until I went away to college.
	Posted 07-20-2009 at 05:03 PM by scooterbug44

	What a sweet Scootermama you had, to read to you every morning!
	Posted 07-21-2009 at 12:10 PM by Susan Horn

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