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I have so enjoyed everyone else's end-of-year book lists that I wanted to play!
Books Read 2010
1. Ash, Malinda Lo
2. Alabama Moon, Watt Key
3. Wildwood Dancing, Juliet Marillier
4. The Kingdoms of Elfin, Sylvia Townsend Warner
5. Feed, M. T. Anderson
6. Lips Touch: Three Times, Laini Taylor
7. Liar, Justine Larbalestier
8. Silver Phoenix, Cindy Pon
9. Going Bovine, Libba Bray
10. When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
11. The Sweetheart of Prosper County, Jill S. Alexander
12. Wondrous Strange, Lesley Livingston
13. Into the Wild Nerd Yonder, Julie Halpern
14. Eyes Like Stars, Lisa Mantchev
15. Jumped, Rita Williams-Garcia
16. Food, Girls and Other Things I Can’t Have, Allen Zadoff
17. Tithe, Holly Black
18. Valiant, Holly Black
19. Ironside, Holly Black
20. Heist Society, Ally Carter
21. Rampant, Diana Peterfreund
22. The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner
23. Fragile Eternity, Melissa Marr
24. Unwind, Neal Shusterman
25. Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
26. Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception, Maggie Stiefvater
27. The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan
28. Need, Carrie Jones
29. Nation, Terry Pratchett
30. Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
31. The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary E. Pearson
32. Kiss of Shadows, Laurell Hamilton
33. Fairy Tale, Cyn Balog
34. The Perilous Gard, Elizabeth Marie Pope
35. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, James Tiptree, Jr.
36. The Demon’s Lexicon, Sarah Rees Brennan
37. Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees
38. City of Bones, Cassandra Clare
39. City of Ashes, Cassandra Clare
40. City of Glass, Cassandra Clare
41. The Fall of the Kings, Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman
42. The Fairies of Tradition and Literature, Katharine Briggs
43. Rosemary and Rue, Seanan McGuire
44. How to Ditch Your Fairy, Justine Larbalestier
45. Kindred, Octavia Butler
46. The Faerie Path (Book One), Frewin Jones
47. In Ashes Lie, Marie Brennan
48. Good Neighbors: Kin, Holly Black
49. Changeling, Terri Windling
50. A Midsummer Night’s Faery Tale, Terri Windling
51. Black and White, Malorie Blackman
52. Ship of Magic, Robin Hobb
53. Before I Die, Jenny Downham
54. Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
55. Racing the Dark, Alaya Dawn Johnson
56. Once Was Lost, Sara Zarr
57. The Red Pyramid, Rick Riordan
58. Shift, Jennifer Bradbury
59. A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
60. Fairest of All, Serena Valentino
61. Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
62. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
63. Devil’s Kiss, Sarwat Chadda
64. Pop, Gordon Korman
65. Flora Segunda, Isabeau Wilce
66. Mexican WhiteBoy, Matt de la Pena
67. Freefall, Anna Levine
68. Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne Valente
69. The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, Erin Dionne
70. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End, Lemony Snicket
71. Piratica, Tanith Lee
72. Ascendant, Diana Peterfreund
73. I Now Pronounce You Someone Else, Erin McCahan
74. You Can’t Judge a Girl by her Cover, Ally Carter
75. Only the Good Spy Young, Ally Carter
76. My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park, Steve Kluger
77. Flygirl, Sherri L. Smith
78. Teenage Waistland, Lynn Biederman & Lisa Pazer
79. Dark Goddess, Sarwat Chadda
80. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Stephenie Meyer
81. Selling Hope, Kristin O’Donnell Tubb
82. Beat the Band, Don Calame
83. Shine, Coconut Moon, Neesha Meminger
84. Thor’s Wedding Day, Bruce Coville
85. Glimmerglass, Jenna Black
86. Looking for Alaska, John Greene
87. Once a Runner, John Parker
88. The Princess and the Snowbird, Mette Ivie Harrison
89. The Bridge to Terebithia, Katherine Paterson
90. The Mountains of Mourning, Lois McMaster Bujold
91. Incarceron, Catherine Fisher
92. Sapphique, Catherine Fisher
93. Knights of the Hill Country, Tim Tharp
94. Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen Kushner
95. The Demon King, Cinda Williams Chima
96. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N. K. Jemisin
97. Cupcake Wars, Heather Hepler
98. The D.U.F.F., Kody Kelpinger
99. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
100. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
101. Goddess Boot Camp, Tera Lynn Childs
102. Violet on the Runway, Melissa Walker
103. Story of a Girl, Sara Zarr
104. If I Stay, Gayle Forman
105. And Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
106. Northlander (Tales of the Borderlands), Meg Burden
107. The Demon’s Covenant, Sarah Rees Brennan
108. The Stepsister Scheme, Jim Hines
109. Something, Maybe, Elizabeth Scott
110. Such a Pretty Girl, Laura Wiess
111. Girlfriend Material, Melissa Kantor
112. David Inside Out, Lee Bantle
113. Also Known as Harper, Ann Haywood Leal
114. Leftovers, Laura Wiess
115. The Secrets of My Suburban Life, Lauren Baratz-Logsted
116. Looking for JJ, Anne Cassidy
117. Crackback, John Coy
118. Lost It, Kristen Tracy
119. Plus, Veronica Chambers
120. Breathing, Cheryl Herbsman
121. Bleeding Violet, Dia Reeves
122. Access Denied (and other eighth grade error messages), Denise Vega
123. The Agency: A Spy in the House, Y. S. Lee
124. Devilish, Maureen Johnson
125. Secret Society Girl, Diana Peterfreund
126. You Are So Undead to Me, Stacey Jay
127. Tongues of Serpents, Naomi Novik
128. Truancy, Isamu Fukui
129. The Lost Hero, Rick Riordan
130. The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Barry Lyga
131. The Treasure Map of Boys, E. Lockhart
132. The School for Dangerous Girls, Eliot Schrefer
133. Geektastic, Holly Black & Cecil Castellucci
134. Nobody’s Prize, Esther Friesner
135. Kingdom Keepers I: Ridley Pearson
136. Kingdom Keepers II: Ridley Pearson
137. Out of His League, Pat Flynn
138. Oddest of All, Bruce Coville
139. Prophecy of the Sisters, Michelle Zink
140. Teen Idol, Meg Cabot
141. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, Gabrielle Zevin
142. Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters, Natalie Standiford
143. The Wonder of Charlie Anne, Kimberly Newton Fusco
144. Princess of Glass, Jessica Day George
145. The Kid Table, Andrea Seigel
146. Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block
147. The Vast Fields of Ordinary, Nick Burd
148. The Julian Game, Adele Griffin
149. The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, Alan Bradley
150. Guardian of the Dead, Karen Healey
151. Godless, Pete Hautman
152. Zen and Xander Undone, Amy Kathleen Ryan
153. Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys
154. Cloaked in Red, Vivian Vande Velde
155. The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things, Carolyn Mackler
156. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen
157. Girl Parts, John M. Cusick
158. Toads and Diamonds, Heather Tomlinson
159. Jars of Glass, Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler
160. Babysitters on Board, Ann M. Martin
Gaps List
In case your friends is not doing such a thing, and you think I'm rambling, a gaps list is a list of 100 books that you probably should have read to be, I dunno, a well-read person? A useful member of society? Smug to your friends and family? Something. And I keep thinking I should read all of those books that my rural high school didn't make me read.
This usually comes with a five-year timeline, but eh. I'm also not committing to read more than 50 pages of any of these; I've spent enough time with books I hate. :))
1. A bunch of people: Cradle & Crucible: History and Faith in the Middle East
2. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
3. Uwem Akpan: Say You’re One of Them
4. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
5. Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits
6. Julia Alvarez: Anything
7. Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
8. Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March
9. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
10. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
11. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
12. Anita Brookner: Anything
13. Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
14. A. S. Byatt: Possession
15. Willa Cather: Anything
16. Kate Chopin: The Awakening
17. Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
18. Francis S. Collins: The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
19. Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
20. Dave Cullen: Columbine
21. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
22. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
23. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles
24. Daphne DuMaruier: Rebecca
25. George Eliot: Middlemarch
26. Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
27. E. M. Forster: Anything
28. Neil Gaiman: American Gods
29. Jean C. George: Julie of the Wolves
30. Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love
31. Graham Greene: The End of the Affair
32. Germaine Greer: Anything
33. Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
34. Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land
35. Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
36. Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
37. Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
38. Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley
39. Homer: The Odyssey
40. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
41. Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
42. Erica Jong: Fear of Flying
43. James Joyce: Anything
44. Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis
45. Jack Kerouac: On the Road
46. Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
47. Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Bearing
48. Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
49. John le Carre: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
50. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
51. Ursula Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness
52. Jack London: Call of the Wild
53. Maud Hart Lovelace and Lois Lenski: Betsy-Tacy
54. Lois Lowry: The Giver
55. Norman Mailer: Anything
56. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera
57. Yann Martel: Life of Pi
58. Cormac McCarthy: Anything
59. Terry McMillan: Anything
60. John Milton: Paradise Lost
61. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: Watchmen
62. Toni Morrison: Beloved
63. Alice Munro: Anything
64. V. S. Naipaul: Anything
65. Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler’s Wife
66. George Orwell: Animal Farm
67. Omar Pamuk: Snow
68. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
69. E. Annie Proulx: Anything
70. Ayn Rand: Anything
71. Jeffrey Rosen, Jeffrey Toobin or Bob Woodward: Anything about the Supreme Court
72. Salman Rushdie: Anything
73. Alice Schroeder: The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life
74. William Shakespeare: King Lear
75. William Shakespeare: Othello
76. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
77. Susan Sontag: Anything
78. Gertrude Stein: Anything
79. John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
80. Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash
81. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island
82. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
83. Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge
84. William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
85. Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
86. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
87. John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
88. Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five
89. Alice Walker: The Color Purple
90. Robert Penn Warren: All the King’s Men
91. Evelyn Waugh: Anything
92. H. G. Wells: War of the Worlds
93. Eudora Welty: Anything
94. Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
95. Elie Wiesel: Night
96. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
97. Connie Willis: The Doomsday Book
98. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
99. Herman Wouk: The Caine Mutiny
100. Johann David Wyss: The Swiss Family Robinson
What do you think? What am I missing? What should I skip so I can read something else?
Books Read 2010
1. Ash, Malinda Lo
2. Alabama Moon, Watt Key
3. Wildwood Dancing, Juliet Marillier
4. The Kingdoms of Elfin, Sylvia Townsend Warner
5. Feed, M. T. Anderson
6. Lips Touch: Three Times, Laini Taylor
7. Liar, Justine Larbalestier
8. Silver Phoenix, Cindy Pon
9. Going Bovine, Libba Bray
10. When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
11. The Sweetheart of Prosper County, Jill S. Alexander
12. Wondrous Strange, Lesley Livingston
13. Into the Wild Nerd Yonder, Julie Halpern
14. Eyes Like Stars, Lisa Mantchev
15. Jumped, Rita Williams-Garcia
16. Food, Girls and Other Things I Can’t Have, Allen Zadoff
17. Tithe, Holly Black
18. Valiant, Holly Black
19. Ironside, Holly Black
20. Heist Society, Ally Carter
21. Rampant, Diana Peterfreund
22. The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner
23. Fragile Eternity, Melissa Marr
24. Unwind, Neal Shusterman
25. Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
26. Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception, Maggie Stiefvater
27. The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan
28. Need, Carrie Jones
29. Nation, Terry Pratchett
30. Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
31. The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary E. Pearson
32. Kiss of Shadows, Laurell Hamilton
33. Fairy Tale, Cyn Balog
34. The Perilous Gard, Elizabeth Marie Pope
35. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, James Tiptree, Jr.
36. The Demon’s Lexicon, Sarah Rees Brennan
37. Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees
38. City of Bones, Cassandra Clare
39. City of Ashes, Cassandra Clare
40. City of Glass, Cassandra Clare
41. The Fall of the Kings, Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman
42. The Fairies of Tradition and Literature, Katharine Briggs
43. Rosemary and Rue, Seanan McGuire
44. How to Ditch Your Fairy, Justine Larbalestier
45. Kindred, Octavia Butler
46. The Faerie Path (Book One), Frewin Jones
47. In Ashes Lie, Marie Brennan
48. Good Neighbors: Kin, Holly Black
49. Changeling, Terri Windling
50. A Midsummer Night’s Faery Tale, Terri Windling
51. Black and White, Malorie Blackman
52. Ship of Magic, Robin Hobb
53. Before I Die, Jenny Downham
54. Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
55. Racing the Dark, Alaya Dawn Johnson
56. Once Was Lost, Sara Zarr
57. The Red Pyramid, Rick Riordan
58. Shift, Jennifer Bradbury
59. A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
60. Fairest of All, Serena Valentino
61. Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
62. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
63. Devil’s Kiss, Sarwat Chadda
64. Pop, Gordon Korman
65. Flora Segunda, Isabeau Wilce
66. Mexican WhiteBoy, Matt de la Pena
67. Freefall, Anna Levine
68. Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne Valente
69. The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, Erin Dionne
70. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End, Lemony Snicket
71. Piratica, Tanith Lee
72. Ascendant, Diana Peterfreund
73. I Now Pronounce You Someone Else, Erin McCahan
74. You Can’t Judge a Girl by her Cover, Ally Carter
75. Only the Good Spy Young, Ally Carter
76. My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park, Steve Kluger
77. Flygirl, Sherri L. Smith
78. Teenage Waistland, Lynn Biederman & Lisa Pazer
79. Dark Goddess, Sarwat Chadda
80. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Stephenie Meyer
81. Selling Hope, Kristin O’Donnell Tubb
82. Beat the Band, Don Calame
83. Shine, Coconut Moon, Neesha Meminger
84. Thor’s Wedding Day, Bruce Coville
85. Glimmerglass, Jenna Black
86. Looking for Alaska, John Greene
87. Once a Runner, John Parker
88. The Princess and the Snowbird, Mette Ivie Harrison
89. The Bridge to Terebithia, Katherine Paterson
90. The Mountains of Mourning, Lois McMaster Bujold
91. Incarceron, Catherine Fisher
92. Sapphique, Catherine Fisher
93. Knights of the Hill Country, Tim Tharp
94. Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen Kushner
95. The Demon King, Cinda Williams Chima
96. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N. K. Jemisin
97. Cupcake Wars, Heather Hepler
98. The D.U.F.F., Kody Kelpinger
99. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
100. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
101. Goddess Boot Camp, Tera Lynn Childs
102. Violet on the Runway, Melissa Walker
103. Story of a Girl, Sara Zarr
104. If I Stay, Gayle Forman
105. And Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
106. Northlander (Tales of the Borderlands), Meg Burden
107. The Demon’s Covenant, Sarah Rees Brennan
108. The Stepsister Scheme, Jim Hines
109. Something, Maybe, Elizabeth Scott
110. Such a Pretty Girl, Laura Wiess
111. Girlfriend Material, Melissa Kantor
112. David Inside Out, Lee Bantle
113. Also Known as Harper, Ann Haywood Leal
114. Leftovers, Laura Wiess
115. The Secrets of My Suburban Life, Lauren Baratz-Logsted
116. Looking for JJ, Anne Cassidy
117. Crackback, John Coy
118. Lost It, Kristen Tracy
119. Plus, Veronica Chambers
120. Breathing, Cheryl Herbsman
121. Bleeding Violet, Dia Reeves
122. Access Denied (and other eighth grade error messages), Denise Vega
123. The Agency: A Spy in the House, Y. S. Lee
124. Devilish, Maureen Johnson
125. Secret Society Girl, Diana Peterfreund
126. You Are So Undead to Me, Stacey Jay
127. Tongues of Serpents, Naomi Novik
128. Truancy, Isamu Fukui
129. The Lost Hero, Rick Riordan
130. The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Barry Lyga
131. The Treasure Map of Boys, E. Lockhart
132. The School for Dangerous Girls, Eliot Schrefer
133. Geektastic, Holly Black & Cecil Castellucci
134. Nobody’s Prize, Esther Friesner
135. Kingdom Keepers I: Ridley Pearson
136. Kingdom Keepers II: Ridley Pearson
137. Out of His League, Pat Flynn
138. Oddest of All, Bruce Coville
139. Prophecy of the Sisters, Michelle Zink
140. Teen Idol, Meg Cabot
141. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, Gabrielle Zevin
142. Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters, Natalie Standiford
143. The Wonder of Charlie Anne, Kimberly Newton Fusco
144. Princess of Glass, Jessica Day George
145. The Kid Table, Andrea Seigel
146. Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block
147. The Vast Fields of Ordinary, Nick Burd
148. The Julian Game, Adele Griffin
149. The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, Alan Bradley
150. Guardian of the Dead, Karen Healey
151. Godless, Pete Hautman
152. Zen and Xander Undone, Amy Kathleen Ryan
153. Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys
154. Cloaked in Red, Vivian Vande Velde
155. The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things, Carolyn Mackler
156. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Rhoda Janzen
157. Girl Parts, John M. Cusick
158. Toads and Diamonds, Heather Tomlinson
159. Jars of Glass, Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler
160. Babysitters on Board, Ann M. Martin
Gaps List
In case your friends is not doing such a thing, and you think I'm rambling, a gaps list is a list of 100 books that you probably should have read to be, I dunno, a well-read person? A useful member of society? Smug to your friends and family? Something. And I keep thinking I should read all of those books that my rural high school didn't make me read.
This usually comes with a five-year timeline, but eh. I'm also not committing to read more than 50 pages of any of these; I've spent enough time with books I hate. :))
1. A bunch of people: Cradle & Crucible: History and Faith in the Middle East
2. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
3. Uwem Akpan: Say You’re One of Them
4. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
5. Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits
6. Julia Alvarez: Anything
7. Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
8. Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March
9. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
10. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
11. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
12. Anita Brookner: Anything
13. Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
14. A. S. Byatt: Possession
15. Willa Cather: Anything
16. Kate Chopin: The Awakening
17. Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
18. Francis S. Collins: The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
19. Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
20. Dave Cullen: Columbine
21. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
22. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
23. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles
24. Daphne DuMaruier: Rebecca
25. George Eliot: Middlemarch
26. Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
27. E. M. Forster: Anything
28. Neil Gaiman: American Gods
29. Jean C. George: Julie of the Wolves
30. Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love
31. Graham Greene: The End of the Affair
32. Germaine Greer: Anything
33. Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
34. Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land
35. Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
36. Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
37. Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
38. Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley
39. Homer: The Odyssey
40. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
41. Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
42. Erica Jong: Fear of Flying
43. James Joyce: Anything
44. Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis
45. Jack Kerouac: On the Road
46. Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
47. Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Bearing
48. Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
49. John le Carre: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
50. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
51. Ursula Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness
52. Jack London: Call of the Wild
53. Maud Hart Lovelace and Lois Lenski: Betsy-Tacy
54. Lois Lowry: The Giver
55. Norman Mailer: Anything
56. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera
57. Yann Martel: Life of Pi
58. Cormac McCarthy: Anything
59. Terry McMillan: Anything
60. John Milton: Paradise Lost
61. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: Watchmen
62. Toni Morrison: Beloved
63. Alice Munro: Anything
64. V. S. Naipaul: Anything
65. Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler’s Wife
66. George Orwell: Animal Farm
67. Omar Pamuk: Snow
68. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
69. E. Annie Proulx: Anything
70. Ayn Rand: Anything
71. Jeffrey Rosen, Jeffrey Toobin or Bob Woodward: Anything about the Supreme Court
72. Salman Rushdie: Anything
73. Alice Schroeder: The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life
74. William Shakespeare: King Lear
75. William Shakespeare: Othello
76. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
77. Susan Sontag: Anything
78. Gertrude Stein: Anything
79. John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
80. Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash
81. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island
82. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
83. Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge
84. William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
85. Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
86. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
87. John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
88. Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five
89. Alice Walker: The Color Purple
90. Robert Penn Warren: All the King’s Men
91. Evelyn Waugh: Anything
92. H. G. Wells: War of the Worlds
93. Eudora Welty: Anything
94. Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
95. Elie Wiesel: Night
96. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
97. Connie Willis: The Doomsday Book
98. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
99. Herman Wouk: The Caine Mutiny
100. Johann David Wyss: The Swiss Family Robinson
What do you think? What am I missing? What should I skip so I can read something else?