Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Book lists I consider personal challenges, not necessarily books (or lists) that would be considered classics.

MENSA EXCELLENCE IN READING
Grades K-3 - COMPLETE
Grades 4-6 - COMPLETE
Grades 7-8
Grades 9-12

BOOK LISTS
Modern Library 100 Best Novels (1998)
Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels (1998)
BBC's The Big Read (2003)
PBS' Great American Read (2018)
Times' 100 Best Mystery/Thriller Books (2023)

BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Stephen King (and related works)

Mensa Excellence in Reading, grades K-3
64/64 Completed

✔ 1. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Judith Viorst
✔ 2. All-of-a-Kind Family - Sydney Taylor
✔ 3. Amelia Bedelia - Peggy Parish
✔ 4. Anansi the Spider - Gerald McDermott
✔ 5. Bedtime for Frances - Russell Hoban
✔ 6. Blueberries for Sal - Robert McCloskey
✔ 7. The Cabin Faced West - Jean Fritz
✔ 8. The Carrot Seed - Ruth Krauss
✔ 9. The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss
✔ 10. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
✔ 11. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - Judi Barrett
✔ 12. Corduroy - Don Freeman
✔ 13. The Cricket in Times Square - George Selden
✔ 14. Curious George - H.A. Rey
✔ 15. The Dot - Peter H. Reynolds
✔ 16. Freckle Juice - Judy Blume
✔ 17. Frederick - Leo Lionni
✔ 18. Frog and Toad Are Friends - Arnold Lobel
✔ 19. The Garden of Abdul Gasazi - Chris Van Allsburg
✔ 20. George and Martha - James Marshall
✔ 21. Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown
✔ 22. Harry the Dirty Dog - Gene Zion
✔ 23. How the Leopard Got His Claws - Chinua Achebe
✔ 24. The Hundred Dresses - Eleanor Estes
✔ 25. I Want My Hat Back - Jon Klassen
✔ 26. If I Never Forever Endeavor - Holly Meade
✔ 27. Leo the Late Bloomer - Robert Kraus
✔ 28. The Little Engine That Could - Watty Piper
✔ 29. Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
✔ 30. Little Toot - Hardie Gramatky
✔ 31. The Littles - John Lawrence Peterson
✔ 32. Madeline - Ludwig Bemelmans
✔ 33. Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McCloskey
✔ 34. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel - Virginia Lee Burton
✔ 35. Millions of Cats - Wanda Gág
✔ 36. The Mouse and the Motorcycle - Beverly Cleary
✔ 37. Mr. Popper's Penguins - Richard Atwater
✔ 38. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
✔ 39. Paul Revere's Ride - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
✔ 40. Peppe the Lamplighter - Elisa Bartone
✔ 41. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
✔ 42. The Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg
✔ 43. Put Me in the Zoo - Robert Lopshire
✔ 44. Rabbit Hill - Robert Lawson
✔ 45. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 - Beverly Cleary
✔ 46. The Quiltmaker's Gift - Jeff Brumbeau
✔ 47. The Reluctant Dragon - Kenneth Grahame
✔ 48. Sam the Minuteman - Nathaniel Benchley
✔ 49. Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan
✔ 50. Shiloh - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
✔ 51. The Snowy Day - Ezra Jack Keats
✔ 52. Stellaluna - Janell Cannon
✔ 53. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales - Jon Scieszka
✔ 54. Stone Soup - Marcia Brown
✔ 55. The Story of Babar - Jean de Brunhoff
✔ 56. The Story of Ferdinand - Munro Leaf
✔ 57. Strega Nona - Tomie dePaola
✔ 58. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble - William Steig
✔ 59. The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo
✔ 60. The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
✔ 61. The Three Little Pigs - Paul Galdone
✔ 62. Tikki Tikki Tembo - Arlene Mosel
✔ 63. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
✔ 64. Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne

Mensa Excellence in Reading, grades 4-6
63/63 Completed

✔ 1. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
✔ 2. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
✔ 3. Ben and Me – Robert Lawson
✔ 4. Betsy-Tacy – Maud Hart Lovelace
✔ 5. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
✔ 6. The Black Stallion – Walter Farley
✔ 7. The Borrowers – Mary Norton
✔ 8. Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
✔ 9. Caddie Woodlawn – Carol Ryrie Brink
✔ 10. Cheaper by the Dozen – Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
✔ 11. The Children of Green Knowe – L.M. Boston
The Chronicles of Prydain – Lloyd Alexander
✔ ---12. The Book of Three
✔ ---13. The Black Cauldron
✔ ---14. The Castle of Llyr
✔ ---15. Taran Wanderer
✔ ---16. The High King
The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
✔ ---17. The Magician's Nephew
✔ ---18. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
✔ ---19. The Horse and His Boy
✔ ---20. Prince Caspian
✔ ---21. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
✔ ---22. The Silver Chair
✔ ---23. The Last Battle
✔ 24. The Complete Fairy Tales – Charles Perrault
The Dark is Rising –Susan Cooper
✔ ---25. Over Sea, Under Stone
✔ ---26. The Dark is Rising
✔ ---27. Greenwitch
✔ ---28. The Grey King
✔ ---29. Silver on the Tree
✔ 30. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths – Ingri d'Aulaire
✔ 31. D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths – Ingri d'Aulaire
✔ 32. A Dog on Barkham Street – Mary Stolz
✔ 33. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate – Jacqueline Kelly
✔ 34. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
✔ 35. Gentle Ben – Walt Morey
✔ 36. Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
✔ 37. Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates – Mary Mapes Dodge
✔ 38. Harriet the Spy – Louise Fitzhugh
✔ 39. Heidi – Johanna Spyri
✔ 40. Homer Price – Robert McCloskey
✔ 41. The House of Dies Drear – Virginia Hamilton
✔ 42. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
✔ 43. Lad: A Dog – Albert Payson Terhune
✔ 44. Lassie Come-Home – Eric Knight
✔ 45. Mary Poppins – P.L. Travers
✔ 46. Matilda – Roald Dahl
✔ 47. The Matchlock Gun – Walter D. Edmonds
✔ 48. Misty of Chincoteague – Marguerite Henry
✔ 49. The Moffats – Eleanor Estes
✔ 50. My Side of the Mountain – Jean Craighead George
✔ 51. The Pushcart War – Jean Merrill
✔ 52. The Railway Children – E. Nesbit
✔ 53. Redwall – Brian Jacques
✔ 54. The Rescuers – Margery Sharp
✔ 55. Roller Skates – Ruth Sawyer
✔ 56. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
✔ 57. Strawberry Girl – Lois Lenski
✔ 58. The Summer of the Swans – Betsy Byars
✔ 59. The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss
✔ 60. The Twenty-One Balloons – William Pène du Bois
✔ 61. The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
✔ 62. Thimble Summer – Elizabeth Enright
✔ 63. Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt

Mensa Excellence in Reading, grades 7-8
29/62 Completed

1. Across Five Aprils - Irene Hunt
✔ 2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
✔ 3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
✔ 4. The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
✔ 5. Call It Courage - Armstrong Sperry
✔ 6. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
✔ 7. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
8. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
9. A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Newton Peck
✔ 10. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
11. Dragonwings - Laurence Yep
12. Enchantress from the Stars - Sylvia Engdahl
13. The Endless Steppe. - Esther Hautzig
✔ 14. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
✔ 15. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
16. The Ghost Belonged to Me - Richard Peck
✔ 17. The Giver - Lois Lowry
18. Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton
✔ 19. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
20. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - Victor Hugo
21. Incident at Hawk's Hill - Allan W. Eckert
22. Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
23. Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
24. Jacob Have I Loved - Katherine Paterson
✔ 25. Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
26. Journey to Topaz - Yoshiko Uchida
✔ 27. Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George
28. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
29. The Last Mission - Harry Mazer
30. The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
31. Le Morte D' Arthur - Thomas Malory
✔ 32. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
✔ 33. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
✔ 34. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
✔ 35. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle
✔ 36. My Friend Flicka - Mary O'Hara
✔ 37. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
38. National Velvet - Enid Bagnold
39. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
40. The Pigman - Paul Zindel
41. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
✔ 42. The Red Pony - John Steinbeck
✔ 43. Rifles for Watie - Harold Keith
✔ 44. Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving
45. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
46. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor
47. Shane - Jack Schaefer
48. The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
49. A Stranger Came Ashore - Mollie Hunter
50. Tales from Shakespeare - Charles Lamb
51. The Thurber Carnival - James Thurber
✔ 52. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
✔ 53. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
✔ 54. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
55. The Upstairs Room - Johanna Reiss
✔ 56. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
57. Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
58. The White Mountains - John Christopher
✔ 59. The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare
✔ 60. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
✔ 61. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
62. The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Mensa Excellence in Reading, grades 9-12 (the first half)
11/60 Completed

1. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years - Carl Sandburg
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
3. The Aeneid - Virgil
4. Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag - Armando Valladares
5. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
6. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
7. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
8. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
✔ 9. Animal Farm - George Orwell
10. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
11. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
12. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
13. Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
✔ 14. Beowulf - Unknown
✔ 15. The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library Edition) - O. Henry
✔ 16. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
17. The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
✔ 18. Candide - Voltaire
19. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
20. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
✔ 21. The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov
22. The Chosen - Chaim Potok
23. The Collected Stories - Eudora Welty
24. The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry - William Harmon
25. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
26. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
27. The Cruel Sea - Nicholas Monsarrat
28. Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
29. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
30. A Death in the Family - James Agee
31. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
---The Divine Comedy, Vol. 1: Inferno
---The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatory
---The Divine Comedy, Vol. 3: Paradise
32. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
✔ 33. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
34. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
35. Dr. Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
36. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
37. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
38. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
39. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
40. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
41. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
42. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
43. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
45. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
46. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
47. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
48. How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn
49. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
✔ 50. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
✔ 51. The Iliad - Homer
52. Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence
✔ 53. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
✔ 54. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
55. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
56. King Lear - William Shakespeare
57. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
58. Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill

Mensa Excellence in Reading, grades 9-12 (the second half)
15/60 Completed

59. Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
60. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
61. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
62. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
✔ ---The Fellowship of the Ring
✔ ---The Two Towers
---The Return of the King
63. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
64. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
65. A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
66. Moby-Dick or, The Whale - Herman Melville
67. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
68. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
✔ 69. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
70. Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot
71. My Ántonia - Willa Cather
72. Native Son - Richard Wright
✔ 73. Night - Elie Wiesel
74. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
✔ 75. 1984 - George Orwell
76. The Odyssey - Homer
77. Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
78. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
✔ 79. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
80. The Once and Future King - T.H. White
✔ 81. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
82. Our Town - Thornton Wilder
83. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
✔ 84. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
85. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
86. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
87. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
88. Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
✔ 89. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
90. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
91. The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
92. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
93. The School for Scandal - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
94. The Complete Stories - Edgar Allan Poe
✔ 95. Silas Marner - George Eliot
96. A Single Pebble - John Hersey
97. The Sonnets - William Shakespeare
98. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
99. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
100. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
✔ 101. The Stranger - Albert Camus
102. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
103. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
✔ 104. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
✔ 105. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
✔ 106. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
107. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
108. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
109. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
110. The Trial - Franz Kafka
✔ 111. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
112. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
113. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
114. Villette - Charlotte Brontë
115. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
116. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Wow, what a lot of challenges in one place! I didn't realise the BBC big read had so many books, I'll have to double check what I've read from your lists. Good luck with your 2017 challenges :)

Sounds like a good way to keep track of everything!

Nice organization and the BBC lists are a great reference. Good luck with your challenges.

Modern Library 100 Best Novels (the first 50)
8/65 completed

1. Ulysses - James Joyce
2. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
4. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
✔ 5. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
6. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
7. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
8. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
9. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
10. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
11. Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
12. The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
✔ 13. 1984 - George Orwell
14. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
15. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
16. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
17. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
✔ 18. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
✔ 19. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
20. Native Son - Richard Wright
21. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
22. Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
23. U.S.A. Trilogy - John dos Passos
---The 42nd Parallel
---1919
---The Big Money
✔ 24. Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
25. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
26. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
27. The Ambassadors - Henry James
28. Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. Studs Lonigan Trilogy - James T. Farrell
---Young Lonigan
---The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan
---Judgment Day
30. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
✔ 31. Animal Farm - George Orwell
32. The Golden Bowl - Henry James
33. Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
34. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
35. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
36. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
✔ 37. The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
✔ 38. Howards End - E.M. Forster
39. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
40. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
41. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
42. Deliverance - James Dickey
43. A Dance to the Music of Time series - Anthony Powell
---A Question of Upbringing
---A Buyer's Market
---The Acceptance World
---At Lady Molly's
---Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
---The Kindly Ones
---The Valley of Bones
---The Soldier's Art
---The Military Philosophers
---Books Do Furnish a Room
---Temporary Kings
---Hearing Secret Harmonies
44. Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley
45. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
46. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
47. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
48. The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
49. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
50. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

Modern Library 100 Best Novels (the second 50)
6/53 completed

51. The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
52. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
53. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
54. Light in August - William Faulkner
55. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
✔ 56. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
57. Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford
58. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
59. Zuleika Dobson - Max Beerbohm
60. The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
61. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
62. From Here to Eternity - James Jones
63. The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever
64. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
✔ 65. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
66. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
✔ 67. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
68. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
✔ 69. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
70. The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
---Justine
---Balthazar
---Mountolive
---Clea
71. A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
72. A House for Mr Biswas - V.S. Naipaul
73. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
74. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
75. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
76. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
77. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
78. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
79. A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
80. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
81. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
82. Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
83. A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
84. The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
85. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
86. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
87. The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
✔ 88. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
89. Loving - Henry Green
90. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
91. Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
92. Ironweed - William Kennedy
93. The Magus - John Fowles
94. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
95. Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
96. Sophies Choice - William Styron
97. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
✔ 98. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
99. The Ginger Man - J.P. Donleavy
100. The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington

Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels (the first 50)
19/52 completed

1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
✔ 4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
6. Ulysses - James Joyce
7. Beloved - Toni Morrison
8. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
✔ 9. 1984 - George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
11. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
✔ 12. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
✔ 13. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
15. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
✔ 16. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
✔ 17. Animal Farm - George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
✔ 21. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
✔ 22. Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
✔ 23. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
✔ 24. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son - Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
✔ 29. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
31. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
✔ 32. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
✔ 33. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
35. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
36. Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp - John Irving
38. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
✔ ---The Fellowship of the Ring
✔ ---The Two Towers
---The Return of the King
41. Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
43. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
45. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
✔ 46. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
✔ 47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
✔ 49. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
✔ 50. The Awakening - Kate Chopin

Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels (the second 50)
10/54 completed

51. My Ántonia - Willa Cather
✔ 52. Howards End - E.M. Forster
✔ 53. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz - Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice - William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
✔ 60. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Flannery O'Connor
62. Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
65. The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
66. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
✔ 67. A Separate Peace - John Knowles
68. Light in August - William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
✔ 70. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
✔ 71. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
72. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
✔ ---The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
---The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
---Life, the Universe and Everything
---So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
---Mostly Harmless
73. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein
✔ 79. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
82. White Noise - Don DeLillo
✔ 83. O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
✔ 85. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
86. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians - Henry James
88. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
91. This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
94. Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
99. Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
100. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

BBC's The Big Read (the first 50)
24/58 Completed

1. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
✔ ---The Fellowship of the Ring
✔ ---The Two Towers
---The Return of the King
2. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
✔ ---The Golden Compass
---The Subtle Knife
---The Amber Spyglass
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
✔ ---The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
---The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
---Life, the Universe and Everything
---So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
---Mostly Harmless
✔ 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
✔ 6. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
✔ 7. Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
✔ 8. 1984 - George Orwell
✔ 9. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
✔ 10. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
✔ 14. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
✔ 18. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
20. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
✔ 22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
✔ 23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
✔ 24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
✔ 25. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
26. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch - George Eliot
28. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
29. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
✔ 30. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
31. The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
✔ 35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
✔ 36. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion - Jane Austen
✔ 39. Dune - Frank Herbert
✔ 40. Emma - Jane Austen
✔ 41. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
42. Watership Down - Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
✔ 46. Animal Farm - George Orwell
✔ 47. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
48. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight, Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher

BBC's The Big Read (the second 50)
10/50 Completed

✔ 51. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
✔ 52. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
53. The Stand - Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
✔ 56. The BFG - Roald Dahl
57. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
✔ 58. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
60. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
63. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
65. Mort - Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
67. The Magus - John Fowles
68. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
70. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
71. Perfume - Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
✔ 74. Matilda - Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
77. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses - James Joyce
79. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
80. Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
✔ 81. The Twits - Roald Dahl
82. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
83. Holes - Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
✔ 85. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
✔ 87. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
89. Magician - Raymond E. Feist
90. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
✔ 91. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
92. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
93. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine - Anya Seton
96. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
✔ 97. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls in Love - Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

BBC's The Big Read (the third 50)
6/50 Completed

101. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach - Alex Garland
✔ 104. Dracula - Bram Stoker
105. Point Blank - Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
✔ 107. Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
109. The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum - Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea - Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game - Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls - Jacqueline Wilson
✔ 118. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
119. Shōgun - James Clavell
120. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose - Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
124. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison
✔ 128. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession - A.S. Byatt
130. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
✔ 131. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
132. Danny the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl
133. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
137. Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
138. The 39 Steps - John Buchan
139. Girls in Tears - Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers - Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
144. It - Stephen King
✔ 145. James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile - Stephen King
147. Papillon - Henri Charrière
148. Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett
149. Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key - Anthony Horowitz

BBC's The Big Read (the final 50)
10/81 Completed

151. Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
152. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement - Ian McEwan
155. Secrets - Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
✔ 158. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
159. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
160. Outlander (aka Cross Stitch) - Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
162. River God - Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
165. The World According to Garp - John Irving
166. Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late - Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions - M.M. Kaye
✔ 169. The Witches - Roald Dahl
✔ 170. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
✔ 171. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
172. They Used to Play on Grass - Terry Venables & Gordon Williams
✔ 173. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
✔ 174. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby - Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl
178. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
✔ 180. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
181. The Suitcase Kid - Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
183. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
✔ 184. Silas Marner - George Eliot
185. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps - R.L. Stine (Classic Goosebumps series)
---Night of the Living Dummy
---Deep Trouble
---Monster Blood
---The Haunted Mask
---One Day at Horrorland
---The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
---Be Careful What You Wish For...
---Say Cheese and Die!
---The Horror at Camp Jellyjam
---How I Got My Shrunken Head
---The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
---A Night in Terror Tower
---Welcome to Dead House
---Welcome to Camp Nightmare
---Ghost Beach
---The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
---You Can't Scare Me!
---Return of the Mummy
---Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
---Phantom of the Auditorium
---Vampire Breath
---Stay Out of the Basement
---A Shocker on Shock Street
---Let's Get Invisible!
---Night of the Living Dummy II
---Night of the Living Dummy III
---The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena
---The Blob That Ate Everyone
---The Ghost Next Door
---The Haunted Car
---Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls
---Please Don't Feed the Vampire!
✔ 189. Heidi - Johanna Spyri
190. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
192. Man and Boy - Tony Parsons
193. The Truth - Terry Pratchett
✔ 194. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett
198. The Once and Future King - T.H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
200. Flowers in the Attic - V.C. Andrews

PBS' Great American Read (the first 50)
40/90 completed

✔ 1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2. Outlander series - Diana Gabaldon
---Outlander
---Dragonfly in Amber
---Voyager
---Drums of Autumn
---The Fiery Cross
---A Breath of Snow and Ashes
---An Echo in the Bone
---Written in My Own Heart's Blood
---Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
3. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
✔ ---Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
✔ ---Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
✔ ---Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
✔ ---Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
✔ ---Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
✔ ---Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
✔ ---Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
4. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
5. The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
✔ ---The Fellowship of the Ring
✔ ---The Two Towers
---The Return of the King
6. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
✔ 7. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
✔ 8. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
9. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
✔ ---The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
✔ ---Prince Caspian
✔ ---The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
✔ ---The Silver Chair
✔ ---The Horse and His Boy
✔ ---The Magician's Nephew
✔ ---The Last Battle
✔ 10. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
✔ 11. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
12. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
✔ 13. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
✔ 14. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
15. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
✔ 17. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
✔ 18. 1984 - George Orwell
✔ 19. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
20. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
21. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
22. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
23. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
24. The Stand - Stephen King
✔ 25. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
26. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
27. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
✔ 28. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
29. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
30. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
31. Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
32. The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
33. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
✔ 34. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
✔ 35. Dune - Frank Herbert
✔ 36. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
✔ 37. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
38. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
39. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
✔ ---The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
---The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
---Life, the Universe and Everything
---So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
---Mostly Harmless
40. The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins
✔ ---The Hunger Games
✔ ---Catching Fire
✔ ---Mockingjay
41. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
✔ 42. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
✔ 43. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
✔ 44. The Giver - Lois Lowry
45. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
46. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
47. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
48. A Song of Ice and Fire series - George R.R. Martin
---A Game of Thrones
---A Clash of Kings
---A Storm of Swords
---A Feast for Crows
---A Dance with Dragons
---The Winds of Winter
---A Dream of Spring
49. Foundation series - Isaac Asimov
✔ ---Foundation
---Foundation and Empire
---Second Foundation
---Foundation's Edge
---Foundation and Earth
---Prelude to Foundation
---Forward the Foundation
50. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

PBS' Great American Read (the second 50)
14/118 completed

✔ 51. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
✔ 52. Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
✔ 53. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
54. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
✔ 55. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
56. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
57. The Shack - William Paul Young
58. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
59. The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
60. Beloved - Toni Morrison
✔ 61. The Martian - Andy Weir
62. The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
---The Eye of the World
---The Great Hunt
---The Dragon Reborn
---The Shadow Rising
---The Fires of Heaven
---Lord of Chaos
---A Crown of Swords
---The Path of Daggers
---Winter's Heart
---Crossroads of Twilight
---Knife of Dreams
---The Gathering Storm
---Towers of Midnight
---A Memory of Light
---New Spring
✔ 63. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
64. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
65. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
66. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
✔ 67. A Separate Peace - John Knowles
68. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
✔ 69. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
70. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
71. Brian's Saga series - Gary Paulsen
✔ ---Hatchet
✔ ---The River
---Brian's Winter
---Brian's Return
---Brian's Hunt
✔ 72. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
73. The Twilight Saga - Stephenie Meyer
---Twilight
---New Moon
---Eclipse
---Breaking Dawn
74. Tales of the City series - Armistead Maupin
---Tales of the City
---More Tales of the City
---Further Tales of the City
---Babycakes
---Significant Others
---Sure of You
---Michael Tolliver Lives
---Mary Ann in Autumn
---The Days of Anna Madrigal
75. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
✔ 76. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
77. Left Behind series - Tim LaHaye
---Left Behind
---Tribulation Force
---Nicolae
---Soul Harvest
---Apollyon
---Assassins
---The Indwelling
---The Mark
---Desecration
---The Remnant
---Armageddon
---Glorious Appearing
---Kingdom Come
78. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
79. Watchers - Dean Koontz
80. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
81. Alex Cross Mysteries - James Patterson
---Along Came a Spider
---Kiss the Girls
---Jack & Jill
---Cat and Mouse
---Pop Goes the Weasel
---Roses are Red
---Violets Are Blue
---Four Blind Mice
---The Big Bad Wolf
---London Bridges
---Mary, Mary
---Cross
---Double Cross
---Cross Country
---Alex Cross's Trial
---I, Alex Cross
---Cross Fire
---Kill Alex Cross
---Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
---Alex Cross, Run
---Cross My Heart
---Hope to Die
---Cross Justice
---Cross the Line
---The People vs. Alex Cross
---Target: Alex Cross
✔ 82. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
✔ 83. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
84. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
85. Flowers in the Attic - V.C. Andrews
86. Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy - E.L. James
---Fifty Shades of Grey
---Fifty Shades Darker
---Fifty Shades Freed
87. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
88. This Present Darkness - Frank E. Peretti
89. Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
90. Another Country - James Baldwin
91. Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya
92. Looking for Alaska - John Green
93. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
94. Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon
95. Mind Invaders - Dave Hunt
96. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
97. Ghost - Jason Reynolds
98. The Coldest Winter Ever - Sister Souljah
99. The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead
100. Doña Barbara - Rómulo Gallegos

Time's 100 Best Mystery/Thriller Books (the first 50)
8/50

1. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
2. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The Leavenworth Case - Anna Katharine Green
✔ 4. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
✔ 5. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
✔ 6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
7. The Crime at Black Dudley - Margery Allingham
8. The Patient in Room 18 - Mignon G. Eberhart
✔ 9. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
10. The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem - Rudolph Fisher
11. A Man Lay Dead - Ngaio Marsh
12. Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers
13. The Three Coffins - John Dickson Carr
✔ 14. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
15. A Coffin for Dimitrios - Eric Ambler
16. Double Indemnity - James M. Cain
17. If He Hollers Let Him Go - Chester Himes
18. In a Lonely Place - Dorothy B. Hughes
19. The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
20. Beat Not The Bones - Charlotte Jay
21. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
22. A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin
23. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
24. Beast In View - Margaret Millar
25. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
26. The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
✔ 27. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
28. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold - John le Carré
29. The Honjin Murders - Seishi Yokomizo
30. Where Are the Children? - Mary Higgins Clark
31. The Shining - Stephen King
32. The Last Good Kiss - James Crumley
✔ 33. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
34. The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
35. A Dark-Adapted Eye - Barbara Vine
36. The Decagon House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji
37. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
38. Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
39. Mean Spirit - Linda Hogan
✔ 40. Postmortem - Patricia Cornwell
41. Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell
42. Dead Time - Eleanor Taylor Bland
43. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
44. Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
45. When Death Comes Stealing - Valerie Wilson Wesley
46. Fade Away - Harlan Coben
47. Killing Floor - Lee Child
48. Lady Joker, Volume One - Kaoru Takamura
49. Morituri - Yasmina Khadra
50. Out - Natsuo Kirino

Time's 100 Best Mystery/Thriller Books (the second 50)
1/50

51. Inner City Blues - Paula L. Woods
52. A Place of Execution - Val McDermid
53. Those Bones Are Not My Child - Toni Cade Bambara
54. Blanche Passes Go - Barbara Neely
55. Death of a Red Heroine - Qiu Xiaolong
56. The Redbreast - Jo Nesbø
57. Mystic River - Dennis Lehane
58. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
59. The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen
60. The Emperor of Ocean Park - Stephen L. Carter
61. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
62. The Ice Princess - Camilla Läckberg
63. 2666 - Roberto Bolaño
64. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
65. The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino
66. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
67. The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly
68. Snakeskin Shamisen - Naomi Hirahara
69. Queenpin - Megan Abbott
70. What the Dead Know - Laura Lippman
71. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
72. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
73. Wife of the Gods - Kwei Quartey
74. Bury Your Dead - Louise Penny
75. Faithful Place - Tana French
76. The Plotters - Kim Un-Su
77. The Sound of Things Falling - Juan Gabriel Vásquez
78. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
79. The Round House - Louise Erdrich
80. Six Four - Hideo Yokoyama
81. Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger
82. Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty
83. Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
84. Land of Shadows - Rachel Howzell Hall
85. The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen
86. Bluebird, Bluebird - Attica Locke
87. Hollywood Homicide - Kellye Garrett
88. My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
89. The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey
90. Miracle Creek - Angie Kim
91. The Need - Helen Phillips
92. The Other Americans - Laila Lalami
93. The Turn of the Key - Ruth Ware
94. Your House Will Pay - Steph Cha
95. Blacktop Wasteland - S.A. Cosby
96. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line - Deepa Anappara
✔ 97. Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
98. When No One Is Watching - Alyssa Cole
99. Winter Counts - David Heska Wanbli Weiden
100. Survivor’s Guilt - Robyn Gigl

Stephen King books

NOVELS
✔ Carrie (1974)
✔ 'Salem’s Lot (1975)
Rage (1977) as Richard Bachman
The Stand (1978)
The Long Walk (1979) as Richard Bachman
The Dead Zone (1979)
Firestarter (1980)
Roadwork (1981) as Richard Bachman
Cujo (1981)
The Running Man (1982) as Richard Bachman
Christine (1983)
✔ Cycle of the Werewolf (1983)
Pet Sematary (1983)
The Eyes of the Dragon (1984)
Thinner (1984) as Richard Bachman
It (1986)
Misery (1987)
The Tommyknockers (1987)
The Dark Half (1989)
The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition (1990)
Needful Things (1991)
Gerald’s Game (1992)
Dolores Claiborne (1992)
Insomnia (1994)
Rose Madder (1995)
The Green Mile (1996)
Bag of Bones (1998)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
Dreamcatcher (2001)
From a Buick 8 (2002)
The Colorado Kid (2005)
Cell (2006)
Lisey’s Story (2006)
Blaze (2007) as Richard Bachman
Heart-Shaped Box (2007) by Joe Hill
Duma Key (2008)
Under the Dome (2009)
Horns (2010) by Joe Hill
11/22/63 (2011)
Joyland (2013)
NOS4A2 (2013) by Joe Hill
Revival (2014)
The Fireman (2016) by Joe Hill
Sleeping Beauties (2017) with Owen King
Elevation (2018)
The Institute (2019)
✔ Later (2021)
Billy Summers (2021)
Fairy Tale (2022)
Never Flinch (2025)

SERIES
The Shining
---The Shining (1977)
---Doctor Sleep (2013)
The Dark Tower
---✔ The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982)
---The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
---The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands (1991)
---The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass (1997)
---The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
---The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah (2004)
---The Dark Tower: The Dark Tower (2004)
---The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
The Talisman
---The Talisman (1984) with Peter Straub
---Black House (2001) with Peter Straub
---"Talisman 3" (TBD)
Twin Novels
---Desperation (1996)
---The Regulators (1996) as Richard Bachman
Locke & Key
---Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft (2008) by Joe Hill
---Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games (2009) by Joe Hill
---Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows (2010) by Joe Hill
---Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom (2011) by Joe Hill
---Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks (2012) by Joe Hill
---Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega (2014) by Joe Hill
Bill Hodges
---Mr. Mercedes (2014)
---Finders Keepers (2015)
---End of Watch (2016)
Button Box
---✔ Gwendy’s Button Box (2017) with Richard Chizmar
---Gwendy's Magic Feather (2019) by Richard Chizmar
---Gwendy's Final Task (2022) with Richard Chizmar
Holly Gibney
---The Outsider (2018)
---If It Bleeds (2020)
---Holly (2023)

COLLECTIONS
✔ Night Shift (1978)
Different Seasons (1982)
Skeleton Crew (1985)
Four Past Midnight (1990)
Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993)
Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
Everything’s Eventual (2001)
20th Century Ghosts (2005) by Joe Hill
Just After Sunset (2008)
Full Dark, No Stars (2010)
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)
Strange Weather: Four Short Stories (2017) by Joe Hill
✔ Flight or Fright (2018) coedited with Bev Vincent
Full Throttle (2019) edited by Joe Hill
You Like It Darker (2024)

NONFICTION
Danse Macabre (1981)
✔ On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000)
Faithful (2004) with Stewart O'Nan
Hearts in Suspension (2016)

OTHER
Storm of the Century (1999)
Charlie the Choo-Choo (2016) as Beryl Evans
✔ A Sign of the Times (2023) by Joe Hill
The Pram (2023) by Joe Hill

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50 Essential Children's Books (2024)


1. OWL MOON BY JANE YOLEN AND JOHN SCHOENHERR
2. IMOGEN'S ANTLERS BY DAVID SMALL
3. WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT BY MICHAEL ROSEN AND HELEN OXENBURY
4. LITTLE CRITTER SERIES BY MERCER MAYER
5. THE SNOWY DAY BY EZRA JACK KEATS
6. TAR BEACH BY FAITH RINGGOLD
7. BILL AND PETE BY TOMIE DEPAOLA
8. MISS NELSON IS MISSING! BY HARRY ALLARD AND JAMES MARSHALL
9. FROG AND TOAD BY ARNOLD LOBEL
10. WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS BY SHEL SILVERSTEIN
11. LYLE, LYLE CROCODILE BY BERNARD WABER
12. BLUEBERRIES FOR SAL BY ROBERT MCCLOSKEY
Also, Make Way for Ducklings
13. HARRIET THE SPY BY LOUISE FITZHUGH
14. THE PAPER BAG PRINCESS BY ROBERT MUNSCH AND MICHAEL MARTCHENKO
15. THE MITTEN BY JAN BRETT
16. LITTLE BLUE TRUCK LEADS THE WAY BY ALICE SCHERTLE AND JILL MCELMURRY
17. THE DOLLHOUSE MURDERS BY BETTY REN WRIGHT
18. CLICK CLACK MOO BY DOREEN CRONIN AND BETSY LEWIN
19. WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS BY WILSON RAWLS
20. HIGGLETY PIGGLETY POP! BY MAURICE SENDAK
21. GOOSEBUMPS SERIES BY R.L. STINE
22. BEEZUS AND RAMONA BY BEVERLY CLEARY
23. BUNNICULA: A RABBIT TALE OF MYSTERY BY JAMES HOWE AND DEBORAH HOWE
24. ZERALDA'S OGRE BY TOMI UNGERER
25. GREGORY, THE TERRIBLE EATER BY MITCHELL SHARMAT, JOSE ARUEGO AND ARIANE DEWEY
26. THE STINKY CHEESE MAN BY JON SCIESZKA AND LANE SMITH
Also, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
27. THE ELEVENTH HOUR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY BY GRAEME BASE
28. THE CAT WHO WENT TO HEAVEN BY ELIZABETH COATSWORTH AND RAOUL VITALE
29. HITTY: HER FIRST HUNDRED YEARS BY RACHEL FIELD
30. THE BERENSTAIN BEARS AND THE MESSY ROOM BY STAN AND JAN BERENSTAIN
31. THE LITTLE PRINCE BY ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
32. DOCTOR DE SOTO BY WILLIAM STEIG
33. THE HALLO-WIENER BY DAV PILKEY
34. MR. LUNCH SERIES BY VIVIAN WALSH AND J. OTTO SEIBOLD
35. TACKY THE PENGUIN BY HELEN LESTER AND LYNN MUNSINGER
36. ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY BY JUDITH VIORST AND RAY CRUZ
37. SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL BY LOUIS SACHAR AND ADAM MCCAULEY
38. LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE SERIES BY LAURA INGALLS WILDER
39. THE HUNDRED DRESSES BY ELEANOR ESTES AND LOUIS SLOBODKIN
40. THERE IS A BIRD ON YOUR HEAD! BY MO WILLEMS
41. THE MOONBALL BY URSULA MORAY WILLIAMS
42. CHARLOTTE'S WEB BY E.B. WHITE
43. CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY BY ROALD DAHL
44. BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA BY KATHERINE PATERSON
45. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE BY MAURICE SENDAK
46. THE MONSTERS AT THE END OF THIS BOOK BY JON STONE AND MICHAEL SMOLLIN
47. TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING BY JUDY BLUME
48. ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN BY DONALD J. SOBOL
49. THE BEE ON THE COMB BY KIT WILLIAMS
Also, Masquerade
50. ONE UNICORN BY GALE COOPER

Aprilleigh wrote: "50 Essential Children's Books (2024)


1. OWL MOON BY JANE YOLEN AND JOHN SCHOENHERR
2. IMOGEN'S ANTLERS BY DAVID SMALL
3. WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT BY MICHAEL ROSEN AND HELEN OXENBURY
4. LITTLE C..."

This is a great list! I've read all but seven - that's what you get for being an elementary teacher and then Mom and Grandmother. lol So many good ones on here, and some surprised me. I don't see Tacky the Penguin mentioned much, but we love it.

Blueberries for Sal was my daughter's favorite book when she was tiny, my youngest grandson loved Miss Nelson, I loved Hitty. So many great memories here! Are you planning on tackling them all?

Teri-K wrote: "Aprilleigh wrote: "50 Essential Children's Books (2024)


1. OWL MOON BY JANE YOLEN AND JOHN SCHOENHERR
2. IMOGEN'S ANTLERS BY DAVID SMALL
3. WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT BY MICHAEL ROSEN AND HELEN O..."

I've read most of them over the years, but will have to hit the rest with my nephews (my son is an adult now).

Sounds fun! I really enjoyed revisiting those books with my grandsons.