104 Books You Really Should Read

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because Danielle asked me to...

Ordered difficulty and alphabetically. Roughly. I have read every one of these books, and I did not include any books which I myself have not read and been changed by. Which means The Kite Runner is not on here, because I haven't read it yet....

It is 104 because I could not stop after 100.

How many of these have you read? What would you add to the list, and why? Have any questions about any of these books?

1. 
   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
   
2. 
   Dr. Doolittle, Hugh Lofting
   
3. 
   Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
   
4. 
   Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
   
5. 
   Over Sea and Under Stone, Susan Cooper
   
6. 
   Stories from Grandmother's Attic, Arletta Richardson
   
7. 
   The Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald
   
8. 
   The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgeson Burnett
   
9. 
   The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
   
10. 
    The Wheel on the School, Meindert DeJong
    
11. 
    Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
    
12. 
    A Winter Book, Tove Jansson
    
13. 
    A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
    
14. 
    Aesop's Fables
    
15. 
    Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
    
16. 
    All Creatures Great and Small, James Harriot
    
17. 
    Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
    
18. 
    Another Fine Myth, Robert Asprin
    
19. 
    Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
    
20. 
    Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, Mary Mapes Dodge
    
21. 
    Heidi, Johanna Spyri
    
22. 
    King of the Wind, Margurite Henry
    
23. 
    My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
    
24. 
    Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
    
25. 
    Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
    
26. 
    The Black Arrow, Robert Lewis Stevenson
    
27. 
    The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
    
28. 
    The Giver, Lois Lowry
    
29. 
    The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
    
30. 
    The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie
    
31. 
    The Outlaws of Sherwood, Robin McKinley
    
32. 
    The Prisoner of Zenda, Anthony Hope
    
33. 
    The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
    
34. 
    The Wizard of Oz, Frank W. Baum
    
35. 
    A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
    
36. 
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
    
37. 
    A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
    
38. 
    A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
    
39. 
    Born on a Blue Day, Daniel Tammet
    
40. 
    Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
    
41. 
    Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
    
42. 
    Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
    
43. 
    Kim, Rudyard Kipling
    
44. 
    Links, Nuruddin Farah
    
45. 
    Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
    
46. 
    Lord of the Flies, William Golding
    
47. 
    Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
    
48. 
    Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
    
49. 
    Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
    
50. 
    Short Stories, Rainer Maria Rilke
    
51. 
    The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare
    
52. 
    The Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean Auel
    
53. 
    The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
    
54. 
    The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
    
55. 
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
    
56. 
    The Hoosier Schoolmaster, Edward Eggleston
    
57. 
    The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
    
58. 
    The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
    
59. 
    The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
    
60. 
    The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
    
61. 
    The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
    
62. 
    The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann D. Wyss
    
63. 
    The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
    
64. 
    The Yearling, J.K. Rawlings
    
65. 
    To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
    
66. 
    Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
    
67. 
    Treasure Island, Robert Lewis Stevenson
    
68. 
    War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
    
69. 
    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
    
70. 
    Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
    
71. 
    Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
    
72. 
    Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
    
73. 
    1984, George Orwell
    
74. 
    A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
    
75. 
    Animal Farm, George Orwell
    
76. 
    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Die Sijie
    
77. 
    Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
    
78. 
    Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
    
79. 
    Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
    
80. 
    Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
    
81. 
    Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
    
82. 
    How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn
    
83. 
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
    
84. 
    Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
    
85. 
    My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
    
86. 
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexandr Solzhenitzen
    
87. 
    Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
    
88. 
    Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde
    
89. 
    Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
    
90. 
    Robinson Crusoe, Daniel DeFoe
    
91. 
    Silas Marner, George Eliot
    
92. 
    Tales from the Scriptorium, Paul Auster
    
93. 
    The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
    
94. 
    The Dispossessed, Ursula K. LeGuin
    
95. 
    The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
    
96. 
    The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
    
97. 
    The Illiad, Homer
    
98. 
    The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
    
99. 
    The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
    
100. 
     The Prince, Machiavelli
     
101. 
     The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
     
102. 
     Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
     
103. 
     Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
     
104. 
     Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky