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These are the top 100 books that I recommend in no particular order. That is until I read more … The following is a wide assortment of fiction, poetry, short stories, children’s literature, and a few non-fiction pieces. And don’t forget drama!

  1. 1.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  2. 2.
    Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  3. 3.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Worlds Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

  4. 4.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

  5. 5.
    Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

  6. 6.
    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  7. 7.
    Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba
    by Federico Garcia Lorca

  8. 8.
    Fear of Flying
    by Erica Jong

  9. 9.
    Cien anos de soledad (Contemporanea) (Spanish Edition)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  10. 10.
    Anne Frank: The Biography
    by Melissa Muller

  11. 11.
    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  12. 12.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  13. 13.
    Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  14. 14.
    Wuthering Heights (Courage Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

  15. 15.
    Richard III (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  16. 16.
    The Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame

  17. 18.
    Alice in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

  18. 20.

  19. 22.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

  20. 23.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  21. 24.

  22. 25.
    The Flowers of Evil (Wesleyan Poetry)
    by Charles Baudelaire

  23. 26.
    Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by George Gordon Byron

  24. 29.
    A Streetcar Named Desire.
    by Tennessee Williams

  25. 30.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Christina Rossetti

  26. 31.
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde

  27. 32.
    Number the Stars
    by Lois Lowry

  28. 33.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi

  29. 34.
    Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales
    by Beatrix Potter

  30. 35.
    ?
    Big Bear's Book
    by Christina Bjork

  31. 36.
    Ozma of Oz
    by L. Frank Baum

  32. 37.
    And Then There Were None
    by Agatha Christie

  33. 38.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown

  34. 39.
    Greater Than Angels
    by Carol Matas

  35. 40.
    The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  36. 41.
    Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers
    by Sean Hepburn Ferrer

  37. 42.
    Teacher Man: A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

  38. 43.
    Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

  39. 44.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  40. 46.
    Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
    by Edith Hamilton

  41. 47.
    Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  42. 49.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

  43. 50.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

  44. 51.
    Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
    by Ben Hamper

  45. 52.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  46. 53.
    The Problem of Pain
    by C.S. Lewis

  47. 54.
    The Screwtape Letters: With Screwtape Proposes a Toast
    by C. S. Lewis

  48. 56.
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
    by J.K. Rowling

  49. 57.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
    by L. M. Montgomery

  50. 59.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  51. 61.

  52. 62.
    The Wild Duck: Play in Five Acts
    by Henrik Ibsen

  53. 63.
    Endgame and Act Without Words
    by Samuel Beckett

  54. 64.
    The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems
    by Robert Frost

  55. 67.
    The Bad Beginning - Book 1 of A Series of Unfortunate Events
    by Lemony Snicket

  56. 68.
    Phantom Tollbooth
    by Norton Juster

  57. 69.
    The Queen of Spades and Other Stories : A New Translation
    by Alexander Pushkin

  58. 70.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  59. 71.
    Speak
    by Laurie Anderson

  60. 72.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  61. 73.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden

  62. 74.
    The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Collins Modern Classics)
    by Elizabeth George Speare

  63. 75.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

  64. 76.
    Matilda
    by Roald Dahl

  65. 78.
    Interview With The Vampire
    by Anne Rice

  66. 79.
    The Outsiders (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by S.E. Hinton

  67. 80.
    Bridge to Terabithia
    by Katherine Paterson

  68. 81.
    Many Waters (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet)
    by Madeleine L'Engle

  69. 82.
    An Acceptable Time (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet)
    by Madeleine L'Engle

  70. 83.
    The Halloween Tree

  71. 84.
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    by Edward Albee

  72. 85.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

  73. 86.

  74. 87.
    Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
    by Julio Cortazar

  75. 89.
    Waiting for the Barbarians
    by J M Coetzee

  76. 90.
    A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
    by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  77. 91.
    ?
    Starting From San Francisco - Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  78. 92.
    The Hours
    by Michael Cunningham

  79. 93.
    The Green House
    by Mario Vargas Llosa

  80. 94.
    ?
    The Golden Name Day
    by Jennie D Lindquist

  81. 95.
    ?

  82. 96.
    Kafka's Selected Stories (Norton Critical Edition)
    by Franz Kafka

  83. 97.
    Daisy Miller
    by Henry James

  84. 98.
    Pygmalion (Enriched Classics Series)
    by George Bernard Shaw

  85. 99.

  86. 100.
    Sonnets From the Portuguese
    by E. B. Browning

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