Best Books I've Read

The following is a chronological list of some of the best books I have read in my lifetime. In most cases, I read the author's entire output, but the book listed was either the first I read, or one I remember well.
Did I miss any of your favourites?

1. The Double – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. Group Portrait with Lady – Heinrich Boll
3. Never Cry Wolf – Farley Mowat
4. Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzakis
5. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
6. On Walden Pond – Henry David Thoreau
7. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
9. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
10. Les Miserable – Victor Hugo

11. The Trial – Franz Kafka
12. Player Piano – Kurt Vonnegut
13. The Horse’s Mouth - Joyce Cary
14. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
15. Dr. Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
16. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
17. A Private Battle – Cornelius Ryan & Kathryn Morgan Ryan
18. V. – Thomas Pynchon
19. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
20. Future Shock – Alvin Toffler

21. St. Urbain’s Horseman – Mordecai Richler - 1971
22. The Monkey Wrench Gang – Edward Abbey – 1975
23. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
24. Portnoy’s Complaint - Philip Roth
25. The Fixer - Bernard Malamud
26. Twinkle, Twinkle, “Killer” Kane – William Peter Blatty
27. Memoirs of an Invisible Man – H.F. Saint
28. Watership Down - Richard Adams 1972
29. Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy around 1980
30. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman 1996

31. Practical Demonkeeping – Christopher Moore
32. The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth
33. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
34. Jaws – Peter Benchley
35. The Choirboys – Joseph Wambaugh
36. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
37. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
38. Gorky Park – Martin Cruz Smith
39. Marathon Man – William Goldman
40. Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosely

41. The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
42. Insomnia - Stephen King
43. Trinity - Leon Uris
44. Thunderball - Ian Fleming
45. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
46. The Bourne Identity – Robert Ludlum
47. The Cunning Man - Robertson Davies
48. LaBrava - Elmore Leonard
49. Swan Song – Robert R. McCammon
50. Double Whammy - Carl Hiaasen

51. A Drink Before the War – Dennis Lehane
52. Jolie Blon’s Bounce – James Lee Burke
53. Voodoo River - Robert Crais
54. The Last Coyote - Michael Connelly
55. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
56. Life or Death - Michael Robotham
57. The Pelican Brief - John Grisham
58. The Book of Negroes – Lawrence Hill 2007
59. The Keeper of Lost Causes – Jussi Adler-Olsen – 2007
60. All the Things We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
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