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2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
16. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
18. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
26. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
28. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (my favorite book ever.)
29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
34. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
38. Persuasion by Jane Austen
40. Emma by Jane Austen
41. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
42. Watership Down by Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
46. Animal Farm by George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
50. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
53. The Stand by Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
58. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
62. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
63. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (high on the favorites list since high school)
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
74. Matilda by Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
78. Ulysses by James Joyce
79. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
87. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
92. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (ditto)
94. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
96. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
114. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
117. Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
125. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
127. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
129. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
131. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (ditto again)
132. Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
133. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
136. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
143. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (oh yeah!)
144. It by Stephen King (every Stephen King written before 2000)
145. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile by Stephen King
157. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
158. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (my nemesis. THE most godawful book ever forced upon high school seniors in the history of my world.)
159. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
161. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
165. The World According to Garp by John Irving
170. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
171. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
175. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
182. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
189. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
I must say that the American version must be very different. I've never heard of Jacqueline Wilson. But a pretty cool list regardless. I'd have added some L'Engle, Chinua Achebe and The Yearling.
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Reason: because I never read Lord of the Rings... oops
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