Lise’s Favorite Books/Authors (in alphabetical order, because how can I judge what is best?)
1. THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe
2. PLAGUE DOGS and WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
3. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
4. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS by Anonymous
5. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen
6. THE HANDMAID'S TALE, ORYX & CRAKE, and THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD, all by Margaret Atwood
7. ANOTHER COUNTRY by James Baldwin
8. OLD GORIOT by Honore de Balzac
9. JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte
10. WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte
11. THE GOOD EARTH by Pearl S. Buck
12. THE CURSE OF CHALION by Lois McMaster Bujold
13. THE STRANGER by Albert Camus
14. IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote
15. A LOST LADY by Willa Cather
16. THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin
17. MONKEY by Wu Ch'eng-en
18. ANALECTS by Confucius
19. THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham
20. THE ILL-MADE MUTE by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
21. DAVID COPPERFIELD, GREAT EXPECTATIONS, and A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens
22. USA TRILOGY by John Dos Passos
23. ANNA KARENINA and CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
24. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
25. SILAS MARNER by George Eliot
26. TRACKS (and everything else -- too much to name, sorry!) by Louise Erdrich
27. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! and THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
28. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert
30. COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier
31. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
32. MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur Golden
33. EARTHLY JOYS and THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL by Philippa Gregory
34. THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME by Mark Haddon
35. SHE by H. Rider Haggard
36. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
37. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
38. A FAREWELL TO ARMS and THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
39. THE FARSEER and ASSASSIN BOOKS (all 9+) by Robin Hobb
40. THE ODDYSSEY by Homer
41. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston
42. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
43. A SON OF THE CIRCUS and SAY A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
44. NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro
45. AHAB’S WIFE by Sena Jeter Naslund
46. METAMORPHOSIS and THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka
47. THE STAND by Stephen King
48. THE WATER BABIES by Charles Kingsley
49. THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver
50. WOMAN WARRIOR by Maxine Hong Kingston
51. THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY by Christopher Koch
52. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, and
THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST by Stieg Larsson
53. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (and pretty much everything else in the Smiley family) by John Le Carre
54. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
55. THE KITE RUNNER and A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini
56. MICHEL, MICHEL by Robert Lewis
57. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
58. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
59. ALL THE PRETTY HORSES and pretty much everything else he’s written -- today’s E. Hemingway,
IMHO) by Cormac McCarthy
60. REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier
61. ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt
62. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
63. ATONEMENT by Ian McEwan
64. CHESAPEAKE and HAWAII by James Michener
65. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
66. A FINE BALANCE by Rohinton Mistry
67. WE WERE THE MULVANEYS by Joyce Carol Oates
68. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL by Baroness Orczy
69. ANIMAL FARM and 1984 by George Orwell
70. MY NAME IS ASHER LEV by Chaim Potak
71. THE LONG WALK by Slavomir Rawicz
72. THE TREE OF HANDS by Ruth Rendell
73. INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE and THE VAMPIRE LESTAT by Anne Rice
74. HARRY POTTER (whole series) by J.K. Rowling
75. THE LAST OF THE JUST by Andre Schwarz-Bart
76. IVANHOE by Sir Walter Scott
77. THE KILLER ANGELS by Michael Shaara
78. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
79. TULLY and THE BRONZE HORSEMAN by Paullina Simons
80. THE JUNGLE by Upton Sinclair
81. MAUS I and MAUS II by Art Spiegelman
82. THE GRAPES OF WRATH and OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck
83. TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson
84. DRACULA by Bram Stoker
85. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN by Harriet Beecher Stowe
86. LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS by William Styron
87. THE LORD OF THE RINGS (the whole set including THE HOBBIT) by J.R.R. Tolkien
88. ANNA KARENINA and WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy
89. TAO TE CHING by Lao Tsu
90. HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain
91. AENEID by Virgil
92. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
93. NIGHT by Eli Weisel
94. ETHAN FROME by Edith Wharton
95. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde
96. REFUGE by Terry Tempest Williams
97. CASSANDRA by Christa Wolf
98. A MAN IN FULL and BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe
99. THE CAINE MUTINY by Herman Wouk
100. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
101. THE DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER aka THE STORY OF THE STONE by Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in
