EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club discussion

List out your 30 books. Post your comments..

I probably will change my mind about my 30 favorite books in a week but for now:

Ethan Frome
The Great Gatsby
The Sun Also Rises
Of Mice and Men
Madame Bovary
The Source by Janes Michener
The Drifters by Jakes Michener
Exodus by Leon Uris
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Temple of Gold by William Goldman
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Washington Square by Henry James
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton
The Prince of Eden by Marilyn Harris
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Beach Music-by Pat Conroy
The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
This is Our Life by Ann Patchett
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Another Country by James Baldwin
The Nun’s Story by Kathryn Hulme

I probably could name another 100 titles but these were off the top of my head. The list also doesn’t include short stories, poems and plays.

My favorite 30 books would have to be:

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Don Quixote by Saavedra
Peter Pan by JM Barrie
Redwall by Brian Jacques
The Hobbit &
Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson
The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy by Terry Brooks
The Child Thief by Brom
Herbert West Reanimator by HP Lovecraft
I, Robot &
Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Grimm's Complete Fairytales
The Robe by Lloyd C Douglas
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
The Seventh Tower series by Garth Nix
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti
Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
Invincible series by Robert Kirkman
Fables series by Bill Willingham
Locke and Key by Joe Hill
Martyr of the Catacombs by James De Mille
Tor; a Street Boy of Jerusalem by Florence Morse Kingsley

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
2. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
3. March Violets by Philip Kerr
4. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
5. Oh, The Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
6. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
7. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
8. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
9. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
10. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
11. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
12. A Game of Thrones/A Clash of Kings/A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
13. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
14. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
15. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
16. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
17. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
18. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
19. Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson
20. Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government by P.J. O'Rourke
21. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
22. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
23. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
24. Neuromancer by William Gibson
25. Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze
26. Nexus by Ramez Naam
27. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
28. Provinces of Night by William Gay
29. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
30. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

How's that for a weird mix?

tx for the links, Randy :)

Cheryl wrote: "tx for the links, Randy :)"

Makes it easier to add them to your TBR. ;-)

Mine is a weird mix also, although they are not all great literature and my professors would probably not appreciate them because they're not all in the canon...but they're mine top 30.

The Great Gatsby
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Bell Jar
Peter Pan
Lolita
Jane Eyre
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Harry Potter series (my favorite Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban )
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Alchemist
True Believer
Dracula
The Kite Runner
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I
The Outsiders
Tears of a Tiger
The Vampire Chronicles series (my favorite is Prince Lestat but I like all of them)
Mrs. Poe
My Booky Wook: A Memoir Of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
Pride and Prejudice
The Best of Me
Wuthering Heights
The Sun Also Rises
The Invisible Man
The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy
A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis
The Woman in White
The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

Just 30? Hmmmmm

1. Anna Karenina
2. The Bronze Horseman
3. Someone Knows My Name
4. The Shadow of the Wind
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
6. The Count of Monte Cristo
7. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
8. The Samurai's Garden
9. Sense and Sensibility
10. The Winds of War
11. Water for Elephants
12. The Phantom of the Opera
13. War and Peace
14. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
15. Sarah's Key
16. The Kite Runner
17. Gone with the Wind
18. The Time Traveler's Wife
19. The Book Thief
20. The Age of Innocence
21. The Awakening
22. The Cellist of Sarajevo
23. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
24. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
25. The Soldier's Wife
26. War and Remembrance
27. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
28. East of Eden
29. The English Patient
30. Their Eyes Were Watching God